Do any of you remember when you could hurt yourself, and time would heal nearly all wounds? That may still be true, but some of us may not have enough time, given that healing processes slow considerably with age.
Last August, I pulled a Joe Biden on my bicycle. Yes, it was very much the same thing, only I didn't have the Secret Service around to catch me. Fortunately, I also didn't have cameras on me because that was my first concern: that it would be embarrassing. I stopped the bike at an intersection, and I hit the ground hard. I cut the side of my head between my right eye and my ear, scraped my chest on something, and hurt both of my arms, just distal to the elbows.
My first thought, though, was that I hoped no one had seen it. I quickly tried to get up, perhaps too quickly, because I fell again. I had bony lumps on both my arms. I was afraid that something might have broken, but there was no loss of function. I thought about going to the hospital, but decided not to.
This was on a Friday. By Monday, they only hurt when I leaned my arms on a table or bumped them against something. The left arm healed within a couple of weeks, but my right one has only recently begun to do so. The bony lump is reduced somewhat, and while it still hurts some when I lean on it, it doesn't hurt as much.
How about you? Have you resigned yourself to the fact that things are probably not going to heal as readily as they once did, or do you still wait it out?
Last August, I pulled a Joe Biden on my bicycle. Yes, it was very much the same thing, only I didn't have the Secret Service around to catch me. Fortunately, I also didn't have cameras on me because that was my first concern: that it would be embarrassing. I stopped the bike at an intersection, and I hit the ground hard. I cut the side of my head between my right eye and my ear, scraped my chest on something, and hurt both of my arms, just distal to the elbows.
My first thought, though, was that I hoped no one had seen it. I quickly tried to get up, perhaps too quickly, because I fell again. I had bony lumps on both my arms. I was afraid that something might have broken, but there was no loss of function. I thought about going to the hospital, but decided not to.
This was on a Friday. By Monday, they only hurt when I leaned my arms on a table or bumped them against something. The left arm healed within a couple of weeks, but my right one has only recently begun to do so. The bony lump is reduced somewhat, and while it still hurts some when I lean on it, it doesn't hurt as much.
How about you? Have you resigned yourself to the fact that things are probably not going to heal as readily as they once did, or do you still wait it out?
to IMPROVE muscle strength, suggested by some nut on Tou Tube, no warning about how it can cripple you.
