But my stamina is way down. It's rather frustrating.
Oh well - mustn't grumble.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Update
It's been four weeks since the motorcycle accident, and this is the first week that I haven't felt better than the week before. I'm beginning to wonder if the doc will want to put a plate in my collar bone after all. I'll know tomorrow.
But my stamina is way down. It's rather frustrating.
Oh well - mustn't grumble.
But my stamina is way down. It's rather frustrating.
Oh well - mustn't grumble.
Any time you want to trade shoulder horror stories, we can. 24 years after my shoulder was trashed I still have significant joint damage and movement such that physical terrorists cringe when I show them my shoulder, then drop my arm out of socket simply by relaxing the muscles in the joint.
ReplyDeleteYou will heal, if you need a plate, so be it, but you will heal (and in other things too).
After my sister was killed on a bike, it took time but we all got back riding again. That is part of healing too.
I crashed my Yamaha XS650 seven years ago last month - went off the road into a cornfield. Broken pelvis - laid on my back for six weeks with a framework holding the bones together.
ReplyDeleteAnother month at home in bed and in a wheelchair until the doc finally let me use a walker.
The only permanent damage is a paralyzed right foot -"drop foot", but I still can push a brake pedal.
It was over a year before I felt as strong as before, but I got back on the rebuilt bike six months after the crash and have been riding ever since - 25K miles now since the accident.
What doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
I'm much more cautious on back roads now where there might be debris on the road - that's how I went down - hitting a patch of freshly harvested corn spilled off a farmer's truck. Just like ball bearings.
Chuck Kueker,
ReplyDeleteNo. No. You got it wrong. It's:
"That which does not kill you makes you stranger."
Not that Borepatch (thanks to whatever Higher Power you subscribe to) is not, in a good way, strange enough, as it is. ;-)
Motorcycles have the glide characteristics of footlockers.
ReplyDeleteDivorce, bike wipeout . . .
ReplyDeleteThings come in threes. Just sayin'...
TIME. Give it time.
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I hope it is nothing more than post accident depression. Especially after weeks of mostly inactivity. It is normal and not a feelgood thing. But if you are still in pain... sorry, but something isn't right. Call Ernest Angley for a good healing... along with a donation of thousands of dollars.
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ReplyDeleteBorepatch is in the ATL. Creflo A Dollar is closer, though likely more expensive. Also .. truth in advertising
That's the worst part about being over 50, you don't bounce back like a rubber ball - it's more like a deflated grapefruit. The day you tipped it over I was working too aggressively in the yard, and woke up the next day with a whole body charly-horse. My rib-wall still hurts.
ReplyDeleteI agree with GFA. Give it some time and good nutrition. A high-quality calcium supplement might help too.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty common to hit a plateau at this point in your healing process.
ReplyDeleteHealing is hard work. Your healer is just taking a break. it's wore out.
Just give it time, and don't be stupid. When your body says "OUCH THAT HURTS!" you need to listen.
Closely.
Worry about getting your endurance back later. It'll come quickly once you can actually function without the "OUCH THAT HURTS" thing I mentioned previously...
+1 on CP. Thoughts and prayers BP!
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