Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley, "By the Pricking...  1." on 08-29-05
11:53

 JB>  Muscles can be a problem for the remainder, and have
 JB>  a habit of knotting so I've heard.


 AH>           Trying to get a grasp on the situation there...
 AH> in other words, it's different from the usual knotting
 AH> triggered by muscle strain or nerve damage??

Ta heck if I know. (Ta heck if I can recall exactly where we left off,
but I'll just wing it like usual. ;-)

I just heard casually, that if a muscle receives damage, it can be
trouble for the rest of the patients life. I can't honestly tell you
if I have nerve or muscle damage, or both.

All I know for sure, is the hamstring sings loud and clear every time
I excite it. Now, the specialist was pretty successful and twangin'
the nerve by manipulation, so I believe most of our efforts are aiming
at that right now.


 JB>  Mending like a bundle can be the inoperable malady.


 AH>           Okay, this is where my "why?" reflex kicks in. 
It's not clear
 AH> to me whether you have something like a benign tumour... in
 AH> which different types of otherwise functional cells may be
 AH> jumbled together... or whether the situation may be
 AH> complicated by adhesions, scar tissue, lack of protective
 AH> padding, etc.

Yes. <-|[

A fibroid neuroma is how the doc is describing it. A nick in the
nerve, could have encouraged it to grow together as a jumbled
mess. When the nerve fires, it is quite a storm. Adhesions, and scar
tissue, I'm pretty sure I would have worked out in my waining days on
the job. Seventy to eighty pounds up four commercial flights of
stairs, then back down again with a second seventy to eighty pound
load tends work out those in short order.

 JB>  The nerve can be disconnected by drowning it in alcohol.


 AH>           Uh-huh... the problem doesn't really go away, but
 AH> you don't care.  I had an experience like that once when I
 AH> was coming down with the flu....  :-))

Not the self remedy - the MD suggested it as a drastic measure to put
the nerve permanently to sleep with an injection of Methyl Hydrate or
some such. There forward, one would never know if their leg was in
boiling water, or if frost-bite was causing ganga green.


 JB>  Two steps forward... I just refuse the one back. I know
 JB>  I shouldn't be so hard on myself, but it's just like me.


 AH>           Seems to me you must be doing something right if you're still
 AH> making progress!  So... you expect a lot of yourself, you
 AH> push yourself to the limit. But if you hadn't done that you
 AH> probably wouldn't be where you are now, living
 AH> independently & gallivanting about in this great land of
 AH> ours.  As long as you don't feel like a failure whenever
 AH> you can't beat yesterday's record, or force yourself to
 AH> keep going past the point where you may be risking further
 AH> damage, I'm not particularly concerned about the
 AH> "shoulds"....  ;-)

Golden years, my eye! 

No, it's not the way I was planing to spend my mid-life crisis, but
it does give me a good excuse to tell the cheerleaders to take the day
off. 

 JB>  I drove almost all of the way to MB and back. I'm proud
 JB>  I lasted, because it was Twelve hours in a vehicle each
 JB>  way.


 AH>           Yes, under the circumstances that's quite an accomplishment....
 AH>  :-)

Pilate's cushion makes for a great air bag suspension, and I crank the
seat back until I can hardly reach the stick. When you can't run a
marathon, you learn to use in-line skates.


 AH>           Hmm... do you normally find Aspirin helpful?  As a "pain
 AH> killer" per se it does nothing for me.  As an anti-inflammatory,
 AH> however, it seems to work fairly well in certain
 AH> situations.  One example might be if my neck or my back is
 AH> misaligned after sleeping in a strange bed... as you've
 AH> just done.  I think this is probably temporary, at any
 AH> rate.  You may have overextended yourself a bit.  But if
 AH> you did something you really wanted to do, it's worth
 AH> it....  :-)

I really want to fly, but I doubt I'll grow wings or jump off a
bridge.  

Aspirin thins the blood, allowing more of it to reach afflicted
areas. Headaches are usually alleviated, in that the less viscous fluid
tends to not build up so much.

I found this summer, I'd hit myself hard with the Aspirin, as SOON as
 I loosened the boots. I'd hit it again in four hours if I needed, and
 that kept me going pretty well. 

Anti-inflammitories (*profens specifically) tend to do me no good.

 JB>  My best composition to date


 AH>           So on the whole, the trip was beneficial.  I rest my case...
 AH> [grin].

Even I know this is out of context. The memory aint *that* bad. (-|


 AH>           Sounds good!  And with performing arts you don't necessarily
 AH> have to interpret things the same way every time if you don't
 AH> want to do that....  :-)

You can't play it wrong if you wrote it.

 JB>  It's amazing the hints we take away from the table,
 JB>  isn't it?


 AH>           Uh-huh.  Sometimes, for example, people feed the
 AH> kids first.  If the kids are at an age where they prefer
 AH> hot dogs to steak & mushrooms or whatever it makes sense.
 AH> But I suspect there's an evolutionary advantage too....  :-
 AH> ))

Draconians say the lion eats first. 

Anyway, I just dressed the split finger nail with Super Glue, so we'll
see how long it'll hold out for tonight. The bruising has just about
subsided, and oh... Ya... I poked myself in the eye last month. With
paint brush in hand, I twisted while I was standing, and found a Lilac
branch broken off between my eyelid and eyeball. That was an
interesting day. I think it was the same day I had an allergic reaction
to the second wasp sting in so many weeks.

My main issue, is I'll work myself until I hit the wall, take a break
and hit the wall again. After lunch, I'll go looking for more walls to
bump into. I still need three days respite for repairs, and recovery,
but once I get my nose in the muck, I like to get good and dirty
before I stop. 

So, the swelling subsided, and the sliver was rather easy to remove
from the optical equipment. "GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!" was all I could
say to myself. After packing up this computer to do a favour for a
friend, they ended up not utilizing it, so I did take a little longer
to plug it back in than I thought it would. More like the tumultuous
house cleaning I was doing in concert with the yard chores left me
with little floorspace to set up a desk.

Anyway, I'm back! Lock up your livestock! 


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