Interesting Injuries
Welcome my lovely pickles, I hope you are all keeping well. I have been on a rollercoaster of a ride over the past few months so please help me by taking my hand, being gentle because my legs are wobbly after being let off the ride. Also I need a sit down because whoaaaaa what a journey it has been. I have seen things...all the things.
Interesting Injuries
Oh my dear little injuries, how do I love thee? Three? Four, five, six....errr 10 or more? Let me count the ways - well I would but we would be here all day and all night. And the next day as well. Like a plane waiting on the tarmac at Gatwick it will take a long time. But what interesting injuries have I picked up this year. So there is a semi joke (hashtag not a joke) with some friends that I should wrap myself up in bubble wrap due to the sheer and vast number of injuries I seem to magically aquire. I am like some injury magnet, whenever there is a small teeny tiny chance of anything injuring myself I do. Oh look a simple walk in the woods, all level and no rain. Oh a little puddle, more a spill of water than an actual puddle, one small jump from me to not get my shoes wet and BAM - torn hamstring. Oh look at me, slumbering like a little sloth. Despite the pillows propping me up BAM I've pulled my neck muscles. And of course who can forget the whole little hop and skip in dance class and BAM sciatica rears its angry head and turns Medusa like turning me to stone with the pain. And that is just in the past two months. DARN IT! $@^£%@&^ Life has given me a few lemons or two. So let's make lemonade!!!
My issues with tissues are here to stay
A Short History of Injury Time
So finally after DECADES and I MEAN DECADES of injuries - oh remember that time when I tidied my clothes drawer and did my knee in? Oh I do...;)))) - I have finally decided to call time on it all. And by that I have decided that enough is enough and that after the third medical professional said to me "hmmm you might need to have an X-Ray" I decided to do just that. Now, have you ever tried getting an X-Ray? I swear that finding Lord Lucan would be easier. Looooooong story short I finally managed to get one at a Chiropractor clinic and guess what? GUESS WHAT??? My back is properly FCUK'ed. Pelvis askew causing shoulder, spine and neck and jaw pain. But yeah I'm fine...NOT. I finally blew the whistle on the pain by finally listening to it and yes it spoke to me through my spine. What's that back? Oh you are hurt - oh ok, let's take a look at that. And so, now I am having treatment and learning new habits.
Will I still injure myself?
Is the sky a wonderful shade of blue (or grey if you spend a lot of time in the UK)? Yes, the truth here is that yes, I will injure myself. It doesn't take much. A repeated action will damage and sprain my muscles.
And yes I have painted a feature wall and then suffered from shoulder and forearm sprains for two weeks. I know, I am a delicate Orchid of a being. And that I have to accept, I have to be cognisant and careful. Have I had to change my life and hobbies? Yes of course I have had to. Have I had to grieve the many lives I have wanted to pursue and live? Yes totally. Does it make me sad? Yes. Does it make me angry? Yes. Do I feel the utter unfairness of it all? ABSOLUTLEY.
So what do I do? I accept that I am delicate, I am easily hurt (in all the ways) and I am a sensitive soul. So I have to live a very high maintenance life. I am very independant but I have to also face the fact that now I must ask for help. I can't even pack clothes away or clean my own home. If I do, it means the fun stuff has to be shelved. So trade offs are now a huge part of my life. And ok, let's work with that.
Keep being my pickles, for we can all surrender together,
xx