Dragging Along

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Can I just start this post by stating that I feel really beat up and tired? Thanks.

Between taking care of my 8 month old niece for over 9 hours a day on weekdays, doing some necessary landscaping at my house (when your wife mentions it from time to time for a few years, it becomes necessary), and the general condition of my post-accident body…yeah, I’m tired. The thing is that I can never be certain that it’s just the accident injuries and the ensuing diabetes that’s killing me so slowly. The accident occurred just about a month shy of 6 years ago. I was fifty years old then. That’s somewhere between the middle age to early-bird-special age brackets, right? I’m now 56. I mean, that’s like 9 in dog years, know what I’m sayin’?  

So…I’m left wondering if some of my problems are age related as opposed to accident injury related. I just know that my wrist, hand, knee, shin, and hip hurt more than the rest of my body. By coincidence, those are some of the areas hurt when my bike ate the side of a car at 40 mph. The fatigue has affected me since the hospital, so it would seem consistent with the injuries. What also doesn’t make sense with the aging theory is the fact that I exercise regularly. I walk a minimum of 5 miles daily, and I work out with weights and boxing equipment several days a week. And then there’s the whole taking care of a baby five days a week while she learns to crawl and roam thing. Uh-huh.

The bottom line remains that I feel really tired. Like, wheel me over to the window so that I can get some sun tired. My hand and wrist have been hurting so much that I’m almost hoping for an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hand injuries to walk through the doors of my church and become a member while also generously offering medical advice. I’m just tired of being tired, and the physical discomfort just makes me want to pass out for a few days. I guess that this is what life with motorcycle accident injuries is about, and my only choice is to focus on the whys so that I can take my mind off of the whats.


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