Well, I guess I must tell my cat story. I debated doing this for all of the obvious reasons in weeks past and didn't do it.
About a month ago Mrs. Cow came in the house one afternoon and said I should go look at my stock trailer. As she was heading to her favored parking spot she had briefly noted that something was sort of hanging off one back corner. I ventured out to remove the plastic bag or whatever it might be that surely had been blown such that it got hung up on the trailer. Turns out it was one of our tom cats. What may have happened is that he was doing something on the rounded top of the trailer fender on that side and slipped. As he fell one hind leg somehow managed to wedge between the very base of the fender and a one-inch diameter pipe bracing the trailer side. The result was his foot was up there and his head was resting on the ground. There was no way for him to loosen the grip on the bottom end of his leg. Nature does not like having the head lower than the heart indefinitely. He was most decidedly deceased when I found him.
Paden's predicament mixed with the thought of having no one around to help right the wrong might have produced the same result under slightly different circumstances. I am truly happy to hear that he is just sore and achy instead of stiff as a board.
Not necessarily an affliction of the old. When I was 15 at high school I was junior boys badminton champ, then I stopped playing to focus on study. Roll on to age 19, first year at engineering school where I bumped into a school friend and we arranged a re-match at the uni courts. All the moves were still there, the smashes, the hang time, the desperation lunges... Next morning, waking up prone in bed, I couldn't move. Over the next hour I managed to keep prone and roll off the bed onto the floor, slide down the stairs, slide along the hallway and half into the shower where I lay under the hot water until it ran out, "unfreezing" my body. After that I learnt to do a bit of stretching beforehand to suit the nature of the anticipated activity.
Sounds very much like my experience with tennis at age 22. The will was there but the body was already telling me "no,no,no". Too many days of sitting behind a desk dictating letters and handling phone conversations. Too few days of regular exercise.
John, post: 421625, member: 791 wrote: And you didn't take at least a picture of you hanging upside down???????????
There never is a Google Street View camera driving by when you really need one
At least you know you can do a hanging sit-up!
Your the best person to determine if you should see the doc. Truthfully you probably already know how it will go and what they will say.
If it doesn't interfere with any meds you might be taking, I'd suggest an anti-inflammatory regiment, including alternating between cold/hot packs.
ThermaCare Heatwraps help with the healing process if combined with cold packs. They are elastic with velcro so they attach to the body easily.
imaudigger, post: 421747, member: 7286 wrote: At least you know you can do a hanging sit-up!..
It wasn't a pretty sit up either, but it worked. Can't lift my left arm up much higher than my shoulder this morning. Think I pulled something on one my floating ribs.
I did find a bump there....but there was one on the other side too so I'm still good. Ibuprofen for lunch.
Also might consider slinging that arm up for a good portion of the day, especially while it's pissed off. At least that's what my dad would tell me...but neither of us is a doctor..
paden cash, post: 421618, member: 20 wrote: I was hanging upside down on the gate.
Photo?
Brad Ott, post: 421764, member: 197 wrote: Photo?
Kind of sucks not being able to scramble over a 6' chain link fence any more.... Last time I tried completely ripped the seem out of my britches and got my hem snagged on the fence and nearly did what you did Paden. I picked a bad day to go commando and with my luck someone would have been there to snap a photo. Now I'll walk half a mile to go around the darn thing if I have to.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
Williwaw, post: 421775, member: 7066 wrote: Kind of sucks not being able to scramble over a 6' chain link fence any more.... Last time I tried completely ripped the seem out of my britches and got my hem snagged on the fence and nearly did what you did Paden. I picked a bad day to go commando and with my luck someone would have been there to snap a photo. Now I'll walk half a mile to go around the darn thing if I have to.
You're lucky all you tore open was your britches...
While eating breakfast with a bunch of old boars this morning one fellow told a little story about how he used to do a little run, jump and scissor kick to get from the sidewalk over the front fence on his way to the local playground. I own that property today. The fence is long gone. It stood about 30 to 36 inches high with a 2x4 runner laying on the tops of the posts to permit stapling the top of the net wire to keep it tight. He was speaking of a time in the misty past--maybe 1962 or thereabouts when he was about 13 years old. I asked if he would like for me to rebuild the fence in the same location, with the same design, so he could have the pleasure of re-enacting the scene he had just described to us. He declined in a not-so-cordial way.
Brad Ott, post: 421764, member: 197 wrote: Photo?
As the saying goes, "it didn't happen unless there is a photo" :rofl:
And an obviously faked photo doesn't "cut it"
As ''tis happened, did you happen to hear a loud guffaw from above originating from a supreme being perhaps?
I ask because that happened to me once when I fell off an old dock very early one morning when I was alone.
It restored my beliefs by showing me that the creator has a sense of humor.
Robert Hill, post: 421798, member: 378 wrote: As ''tis happened, did you happen to hear a loud guffaw from above originating from a supreme being perhaps?
I ask because that happened to me once when I fell off an old dock very early one morning when I was alone.
It restored my beliefs by showing me that the creator has a sense of humor.
It reminds me of the old Far Side comic where God is sitting at a screen watching a man walk under a piano suspended above and God has his finger on the smite button on the keyboard.
paden cash, post: 421752, member: 20 wrote: It wasn't a pretty sit up either, but it worked. Can't lift my left arm up much higher than my shoulder this morning. Think I pulled something on one my floating ribs.
I did find a bump there....but there was one on the other side too so I'm still good. Ibuprofen for lunch.
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