Sometime in October I noticed that I had lost some strength and range of motion in my right arm. My first thought was that perhaps I had experienced a stroke and didn't realize it. So of course I smiled, raised my arms over my head, and said, "How now brown cow?" I concluded from my [...]
Tag: injury
What I learned from Mike’s injury…
I often say, "Be careful what you wish for!" I say this because things don't always play out in practice the way we think they will. When Mike first hurt his knee three months ago I was appropriately horrified. Horrified for him as the extent of the injury was unknown; horrified for me because Nurse [...]
If the patch fits…
Mike pulled something in his neck/shoulder area this past week and after a day of watching him experience the pain associated with it and urging him to do something to help alleviate the pain (to no avail), I put my foot down. Not on his neck and shoulder area...I didn't do one of those walking [...]
OUCH!
Well, I received a fairly severe deep tissue injury last night at our lovely local Perkins restaurant. It was caused by a young twenty-something waitress named Renee. Had I been able to see the injury coming I would have protected myself, but I was completely blindsided. It is hard to tell how long it will [...]
Bit me in the fanny alright…
Something bit me in the fanny - and I don't mean figuratively, I mean literally - something bit my fanny. And no, it wasn't a good something or an invited something or a human something - it was, I suspect from the looks and feel of it, a spider of some sort. And it wasn't [...]
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