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An open request...
Oct. 6th, 2004 11:12 amWould whomever it is that shoved a pin into the voodoo doll of me take the damn thing out, already? I can appreciate that going around with a walking stick is an attention-grabber, but it's getting annoying as hell, neh?
And for the benefit of the vast majority of you whose reaction to the above sentence was "HUH!?!", allow me to elaborate: About a month or so ago, I smacked my knee into the corner of my bedside table (whose surface just happens to be a wee tiny bit above the level of my mattress, so I guess it was just a matter of time before that happened - in this case, the time being something like two fricking days.) Much pain and cursing ensued, because I aimed the juncture of kneecap and at least one major legbone right at the pointy hardwood corner of the thing. Some swelling occurred. Eventually it died down, only to flare up again every so often as I'd bump my knee and something else into each other. I would think "I need to get that looked at" while I was spitting out a non-childsafe word or two, but when it died down, I would forget about it again.
Until it started to become a steady ache again, which really annoyed the hell outta me. So I go see a doctor about it, get it X-Rayed (and considered whether I really wanted to keep the lead sheet on my lap, since I don't know if I ever want to father a child, but I digress,) discovered to my nigh-infinite relief that there were no breaks or fractures, and scheduled an appointment with an orthopedic doc. He told me that it looks like I bruised either the cartilage, the meniscus (I have no idea whether I spelled that right - Dammit, Jim, I'm an English Major, not a Doctor!), or some combination of the two (the howeveryouspellthebloodything is the other soft tissue that keeps your bones from locking up against each other and grinding each other into paste, doing the same job with almost no recognition. It's the Zeppo of soft tissues.)
So I'm taking my anti-inflammatories, exercising the knee as best my lazy self gets around to, and using a walking stick to get around when a lot of walking is called for. The latter of which is tempting me to slap an eyepatch under one lens of my glasses, and go around saying "ARRRRR" a lot - which I probably would have already done if I'd been using the thing when Talk Like A Pirate Day hit, lemme tell ya.
So anyway, how y'all doin'?
And for the benefit of the vast majority of you whose reaction to the above sentence was "HUH!?!", allow me to elaborate: About a month or so ago, I smacked my knee into the corner of my bedside table (whose surface just happens to be a wee tiny bit above the level of my mattress, so I guess it was just a matter of time before that happened - in this case, the time being something like two fricking days.) Much pain and cursing ensued, because I aimed the juncture of kneecap and at least one major legbone right at the pointy hardwood corner of the thing. Some swelling occurred. Eventually it died down, only to flare up again every so often as I'd bump my knee and something else into each other. I would think "I need to get that looked at" while I was spitting out a non-childsafe word or two, but when it died down, I would forget about it again.
Until it started to become a steady ache again, which really annoyed the hell outta me. So I go see a doctor about it, get it X-Rayed (and considered whether I really wanted to keep the lead sheet on my lap, since I don't know if I ever want to father a child, but I digress,) discovered to my nigh-infinite relief that there were no breaks or fractures, and scheduled an appointment with an orthopedic doc. He told me that it looks like I bruised either the cartilage, the meniscus (I have no idea whether I spelled that right - Dammit, Jim, I'm an English Major, not a Doctor!), or some combination of the two (the howeveryouspellthebloodything is the other soft tissue that keeps your bones from locking up against each other and grinding each other into paste, doing the same job with almost no recognition. It's the Zeppo of soft tissues.)
So I'm taking my anti-inflammatories, exercising the knee as best my lazy self gets around to, and using a walking stick to get around when a lot of walking is called for. The latter of which is tempting me to slap an eyepatch under one lens of my glasses, and go around saying "ARRRRR" a lot - which I probably would have already done if I'd been using the thing when Talk Like A Pirate Day hit, lemme tell ya.
So anyway, how y'all doin'?
