Fell today

[bajabuc]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the thoughts.

[NV2TN]

How ya feelin this morning? Hope you have a better day today!

[Caster]

Which is worse, Soreness or Hangover?

[bajabuc]

Well...since I just got up. My arm is the arm from he!!. Why I didn't break it I'll never know. On the first of every month I squire a friend's wife around all day. She and I go all over town paying her bills and buying her wanttos. She said the fall 'twern't pretty. I had an armload of books she got from the freebie bin at McKay Books and I was trying to juggle them too. I still can't pick it up very far and a tee shirt is EXTREMELY difficult...plus my jeans ride funny because I can't pull the right side up. I can already tell I'm getting over it though. It's a dull ache instead of OH SHi!. I thank you all for your concern. Falling and breaking something is my number two fear...number one is being homeless.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Hi Bajabuc

If it is feeling better today sounds like a good sign.

When I bunged my shoulder last year, had been walking on a hill in the woods and slipped on a stick. Popped the shoulder right on the ground on the uphill side of the slope.

It had three stages of pain-- 1. Hurt too bad to do anything except stand there and suffer for about 15 minutes. 2. Mostly quit hurting the rest of the first day. 3. Hurt pretty bad the next day and continued for months before healing up.

So if yours is getting better the second day it sounds encouraging.

[bajabuc]

My worst fall was in the mountains of Wyoming. (Mistake one) My sons and I were hiking up to the Tongue River Cave in the dead of winter. (mistake two) The switchback trail was icy and we didn't turn back. I lost my footing and fell on my back. (Mistake three) There was a fallen tree that we had to step over. I hit that tree trunk and it turned me straight down hill. At the end of that steep hill there was a 50 to 75 foot cliff which would have shot me out over the river and I was going fast enough to hit the far bank. There was one little tree just before the edge. I reached behind me and grabbed it on the way by. Then the kids had to do things with ropes from the trunk of the car to get me off the edge. That could have been a real mess and I know I wouldn't have survived the fall. We didn't go back to the cave until spring.

[bajabuc]

I'm some better...got a good nights sleep and didn't thrash around much. I didn't even have to get up in the middle of the night to P...and I didn't wet the bed....getting old sucks.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

That Capsaicin cream. And the strongest menthol muscle rub you can find at Walmart. Eat a couple of Ibuprofen. Take a shower to open the skin pores, rub in the capsaicin cream and then slather menthol muscle rub on top.

If nothing else, the smell clears yer sinuses. After awhile the skin burns enough (expecially if you sweat) that the shoulder doesn't hurt much anymore. Maybe it actually loosens up a little bit too.

When my shoulder was still hurting a lot, I got a kidney stone that lasted a couple of days. When the kidney stone pain set in, the shoulder quit hurting! The shoulder did not hurt even one little bit! I actually thought the shoulder was coincidentally healing up.

After the kidney stone passed the shoulder started hurting again.

Most likely a sensory masking effect. Kinda like turning up the Allman Bros so loud on yer stereo that you can't hear the Rap from down the street!

Maybe it would mask the shoulder pain just as good if you just mash a pinky-toe with vise-grips!

[tnhawk]

Now I'm drippin' wet and the sweat is runnin' into the gravel cuts. My wife always says men can't handle minor pain

I had a few that became a major pain untill removed by a lawyer.

[bajabuc]

Shoot...it's broke. heck and shuckydarn

[Raoul]

Shoot...it's broke. heck and shuckydarn

The indignity of age. Sorry about the arm.

[bajabuc]

er doc says it's ":a tiny" break... radiologist says it's broke. getting old sucks...but it's better than the other choice.

[leroy]

The indignity of age. Sorry about the arm.

Raoul hit the problem dead on the nose. Hope you are doin better.

Us old guys cant stand to fall too much.

leroy

[Guest pfries]

You have to slightly rub the sippin's into the muscle ache and liberally coat the insides.

I realy hope you are OK in a day or so but your on the right path here.....

[chemprof]

Hope you heal quickly. Hey, if you get a cast, all the TGO folks could stop by and sign it--LOL! jk..... Take care.

[Guest db99wj]

Tough break........

[Guest brandon_pitt]

Sorry to hear about the news. Get better quickly!