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footfootfoot · 05-15-2006, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

Careful now. That's exactly what I did, only in the garden over a period of 2 days

"Hyper-extension" was what my doctor called it, and added that he had never seen anybody do that before (I've always been able to put both hands on the floor because I'm very short-waisted). Now I can't sit in a chair without severe pain, but it's supposed to gradually heal. Oh well, at least it wasn't the DVT again, that would have been much worse.

Two days!? Did someone bring you meals? Holy cats. I usually only do it when I've had a few beers and want to show off, therefore I doubt I could do it for two days. I just could't drink that much beer w/o feeling bloated.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-15-2006, 09:58 PM

9/11, going into work late. Had one shoe on when CBS morning show said a plane had hit the WTC and cut to a roof camera that was too far away to see anything clearly. Sat at my desk watching the bedroom TV... with one shoe on.... for the rest of the day.

Tonchi · 05-16-2006, 03:22 AM

Footsie, no, it wasn't like I slept in the yard in that position, it was a crash attempt to get all the weeds pulled and the bedding plants in the ground before the unusually cool weather ended. I thought it would not be as hard on my scoliosis if I bent straight down from the waist and shuffled along that way, and it actually did not cause me any back pain at all. But by the second day my left knee wouldn't bend and all the muscles in the back of my legs felt as if somebody had inserted white-hot spikes. Since only my knee was swollen, they decided it was not DVT, thank God, just me failing to realize that I am too old to do acrobatics anymore. My doctor said it hurt just to watch me demonstrate what I was doing to cause the problem, but I didn't know it was that unusual. This pain thing really sucks, though. It never goes away and if something touches against my leg the muscles go into spasms

footfootfoot · 05-16-2006, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

Footsie, no, it wasn't like I slept in the yard in that position, it was a crash attempt to get all the weeds pulled and the bedding plants in the ground before the unusually cool weather ended. I thought it would not be as hard on my scoliosis if I bent straight down from the waist and shuffled along that way, and it actually did not cause me any back pain at all. But by the second day my left knee wouldn't bend and all the muscles in the back of my legs felt as if somebody had inserted white-hot spikes. Since only my knee was swollen, they decided it was not DVT, thank God, just me failing to realize that I am too old to do acrobatics anymore. My doctor said it hurt just to watch me demonstrate what I was doing to cause the problem, but I didn't know it was that unusual. This pain thing really sucks, though. It never goes away and if something touches against my leg the muscles go into spasms

Ouch. the whole thing sounds painful. I want you to buy one of those weed flamers, k? You can pretty much singe them while standing straight up. I admire your determination, if you weren't so crippled over this I'd invite you to visit and duke it out with my weeds.

Tonchi · 05-16-2006, 11:50 PM

I gave up on the Tylenol and took a Vicodin last night. Whee, that's more like it

Flame thrower sounds like a plan, except these weeds are in the bed which stretches around my unit and they are firmly entrenched under the azaleas, ferns, and sego palms and spilling out of all the pots on my large patio. Mostly oxalis, you know the little buggers? You have to dig them out with your fingernails. Practically a solid mat of their tendrils because I was fading fast last year and the doctors at UCSD told me to stay in doors all winter so that I would not get pneumonia or the flu and complicate the operation. Afterwards, I could breathe just great but my back was destroyed by spending 2 months sitting up in bed. Everything outside grew out of control and now I am dealing with it. Imagine the joke about "bend over and grab your ankles"? That's kinda what it looks like as I hop around grubbing in the dirt. I also had to be careful not to turn my rear end out toward the Common Area

05-15-2006, 09:58 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	9/11, going into work late. Had one shoe on when CBS morning show said a plane had hit the WTC and cut to a roof camera that was too far away to see anything clearly. Sat at my desk watching the bedroom TV... with one shoe on.... for the rest of the day. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-16-2006, 03:22 AM	#3
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Footsie, no, it wasn't like I slept in the yard in that position, it was a crash attempt to get all the weeds pulled and the bedding plants in the ground before the unusually cool weather ended. I thought it would not be as hard on my scoliosis if I bent straight down from the waist and shuffled along that way, and it actually did not cause me any back pain at all. But by the second day my left knee wouldn't bend and all the muscles in the back of my legs felt as if somebody had inserted white-hot spikes. Since only my knee was swollen, they decided it was not DVT, thank God, just me failing to realize that I am too old to do acrobatics anymore. My doctor said it hurt just to watch me demonstrate what I was doing to cause the problem, but I didn't know it was that unusual. This pain thing really sucks, though. It never goes away and if something touches against my leg the muscles go into spasms __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

05-16-2006, 11:50 PM	#5
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	I gave up on the Tylenol and took a Vicodin last night. Whee, that's more like it Flame thrower sounds like a plan, except these weeds are in the bed which stretches around my unit and they are firmly entrenched under the azaleas, ferns, and sego palms and spilling out of all the pots on my large patio. Mostly oxalis, you know the little buggers? You have to dig them out with your fingernails. Practically a solid mat of their tendrils because I was fading fast last year and the doctors at UCSD told me to stay in doors all winter so that I would not get pneumonia or the flu and complicate the operation. Afterwards, I could breathe just great but my back was destroyed by spending 2 months sitting up in bed. Everything outside grew out of control and now I am dealing with it. Imagine the joke about "bend over and grab your ankles"? That's kinda what it looks like as I hop around grubbing in the dirt. I also had to be careful not to turn my rear end out toward the Common Area __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

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