My Motorcycle Injuries

Tonight I had dinner with over a dozen family members at a burger restaurant nearby. We sat outside because of the size of our group and we had a nice time together. Our table was located about twenty feet from the entrance to the place where I got my haircut on the morning of the accident. The crash occurred as I rode home from getting a haircut at that place. I have absolutely no memory of the haircut or the ride to and from this place, but I’m a creature of habit so I know pretty much where I pulled in and where I parked. It is currently an empty storefront (thank you Covid-19) but the place looks the same as it did years ago. I sat in a chair at the dinner table tonight that had me facing directly toward the front entrance of the former storefront. It makes me feel stupid, but I kept thinking that this was the last place that I walked without having so many problems with my body. I knew where I would have gone between the front door and my bike in the parking lot, and I couldn’t ...

So yeah, the show must go on. I’ve mentioned before that my body is at a stage where things are getting worse little by little. It’s nothing dramatic or debilitating, but I notice the small increments of decline as time passes. My hip is hurting more whether I stand or sit, while the rest of my leg feels pain on and off. The pain in my hip sort of feels as though it’s being stabbed with something sharp inside, but at other times it feels as though it;s getting hot. Weird, yes? My thigh often feels pain along with my hip, but I was told that my femur grew into the muscle a little when it was healing, and the painful discomfort in my thigh continues to convince me that the orthopedic surgeon wasn’t lying. My knee is what it is, but I’ve honestly grown more accustomed to ignoring the way that it feels and the hindrances that it produces throughout any given day. I sometimes have a more difficult time standing up after sitting still for a longer period of time, and I really feel like limpi...