Whelp, That Sucks
Mar. 8th, 2022 06:53 pmOn Sunday, after coming back in from shoveling the front walk, I was WhatsApping with my son about things. I decided it would be lovely to snap a picture of the snow fall for him to show off to his East Coast friends, and I stepped out onto our very top concrete stairs in my house shoes and slipped and fell on the ice. Thinking of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pegkerr and my other writer friend Kelly B. who recently got concussions this same way, I protected my head at all cost.
The cost was my back.
I was in so much pain on Monday that I was convinced to go to Urgent Care. I took a urine test to make sure there was no kidney damage (the way I fell against the concrete was basically a kidney punch) and they did three x-rays. The good news is it's just a really awful sprain. I ripped the fuck out of one of my precious back muscles. Recovery is slow in coming, especially when I am used to bouncing back from things.
I am, as I have been telling friends, unaccustomed to taking damage.
Normally, I fall, I am moderately sore, and done in a couple of days. This... this is shooting pains if I step the wrong way or forget and twist and it's making me shuffle around the house like an old lady, which I guess I am, but OLDER... WAY older.
Boo.
But, there's nothing for it but rest, ice/heat, and stretching exercises.
I've been continuing to enjoy the HeyGo tours of the beginnings of cherry blossom season in Japan, and I will probably show off my complication of postcards and such tomorrow.
pegkerr and my other writer friend Kelly B. who recently got concussions this same way, I protected my head at all cost. The cost was my back.
I was in so much pain on Monday that I was convinced to go to Urgent Care. I took a urine test to make sure there was no kidney damage (the way I fell against the concrete was basically a kidney punch) and they did three x-rays. The good news is it's just a really awful sprain. I ripped the fuck out of one of my precious back muscles. Recovery is slow in coming, especially when I am used to bouncing back from things.
I am, as I have been telling friends, unaccustomed to taking damage.
Normally, I fall, I am moderately sore, and done in a couple of days. This... this is shooting pains if I step the wrong way or forget and twist and it's making me shuffle around the house like an old lady, which I guess I am, but OLDER... WAY older.
Boo.
But, there's nothing for it but rest, ice/heat, and stretching exercises.
I've been continuing to enjoy the HeyGo tours of the beginnings of cherry blossom season in Japan, and I will probably show off my complication of postcards and such tomorrow.