If you were herepaulcurtisDecember 3 2014, 14:38:10 UTC
YOW!
One more reason to be cheerful, on my part. When I went out, it felt like about 40 degrees, Fahrenheit. I would not have tried to brave the ice/rain/snow combination.
In fact, when I came back from the Emergency Room on the 29th (my second ER visit for the same back problem) my right leg suddenly spasm'd out from under me and I fell down a couple of front stairs. Luckily nothing was bruised or battered (apart from my dignity) yet I continue to be cautious of stairs.
What really digs at me is: I am actually in fine health! The ER doctors (and relatives and friends) keep asking about things in my lifestyle which might complicate my strength and health, and none of them are present. I don't smoke; I don't overeat or undereat; I'm even less sedentary now than a year ago. This pulled-muscle problem is just "one of those things that happen." However, being human, I want to make it fit into part of some sort of narrative, in which there is some lesson to be learnt. As close as I have been able to come to discovering a "moral to the story" it is: "don't try to reach up and put that one box back on the top shelf."
One more reason to be cheerful, on my part. When I went out, it felt like about 40 degrees, Fahrenheit. I would not have tried to brave the ice/rain/snow combination.
In fact, when I came back from the Emergency Room on the 29th (my second ER visit for the same back problem) my right leg suddenly spasm'd out from under me and I fell down a couple of front stairs. Luckily nothing was bruised or battered (apart from my dignity) yet I continue to be cautious of stairs.
What really digs at me is: I am actually in fine health! The ER doctors (and relatives and friends) keep asking about things in my lifestyle which might complicate my strength and health, and none of them are present. I don't smoke; I don't overeat or undereat; I'm even less sedentary now than a year ago. This pulled-muscle problem is just "one of those things that happen." However, being human, I want to make it fit into part of some sort of narrative, in which there is some lesson to be learnt. As close as I have been able to come to discovering a "moral to the story" it is: "don't try to reach up and put that one box back on the top shelf."
Not exactly Dr. Seuss-worthy.
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