Looks like Mrs. HM has suffered another old-folks injury in while reclining in her husband's La-Z-Boy. I felt it happen instantaneously when I shifted slightly, wallowing in my slothfulness. Now I have a sharp shooting pain at the inner edge of my right shoulder blade when I tilt my head down.
Do you know how many daily activities require tilting your head down? ALMOST ALL OF THEM! Including, but not limited to:
Getting up out of a La-Z-Boy.
Looking down at a laptop.
Looking down at a keyboard in front of a New Delly in a dark basement lair.
Eating a big salad.
Addressing an envelope for a weekly letter to a son.
Scratching a lottery ticket.
Reaching for the controller of an OPC (Old People Chair).
Since that trip to visit The Pony, barely a day has gone by without some type of debilitating pain. I'm starting to think I might be suffering from SelfPityalgia.
I fell yesterday & landed squarely on my butt. It's still sore!! Does that count as old people's disease?
ReplyDeletefishducky,
ReplyDeleteOh, no! I hope you're okay, other than having a pain in your butt... I can't verify if that's old people's disease. That's as amorphous as irony to me. The way I hobble along without bending my ankles or knees, I'm thinking I have a touch of OPD, though.
If I'm going to fall, I prefer to land on my ample rumpus. A few years ago, when I carried more poundage, I caught my toe on a throw rug by the mini-fridge, and fell on my face. Except, thanks to the extra poundage, my face never even touched the floor. I think I must have looked like a rocking horse, rolling forward and back on my belly fulcrum.
I know exactly how you feel, well my hands do at least. my shoulders are also aching but I know that's from carrying too much heavy stuff, mentally and emotionally as well as physically. It's amazing how much aching a bout of worrying can cause. Once your neck/shoulder pain eases, you may want to try a few of those old fashioned exercises we were taught to do in school. At each lesson change our teacher would have us stand up and stretch then waggle our heads side to side, back and forth and then rotate the head, like drop it to one side then roll around and down to the chest, up again to the other side and back upright and we had to do it in both directions. You know what I mean, right? But do it as gently as you can until you feel it is easy. Also roll your shoulders, again gently as if preparing to throw a baseball, and when that is easy, 'throw the baseball', but gently and then roll the arm backwards again. Each action must have the reverse action and should be done on both sides of the body not just on the sore side. (says my physio)
ReplyDelete@fishducky; please don't fall over anymore.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteYes, stress does cause the muscles to tense up.
I know exactly what you're talking about, but I'll have to be careful with the neck, because over the past six months or so, I've developed a CLICK when I turn it. Don't want to paralyze myself! I have precious little movement as it is. At least I can still get around inside a casino!
I don't do it on purpose!!
ReplyDeleteYou never know how much you rely on your body parts until you hurt one of them!
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteAin't THAT the truth!