My Motorcycle Injuries

Yesterday I spent the majority of my time watching my niece because of a sick day from school. My knee wasn't feeling its best, but I took her to the grocery store in order to buy her a snack. As I strolled through the aisles with her riding in a shopping cart, I ran through a few of those aisles while pushing the cart because it's something that she has always loved to do. My knee hadn't been feeling well before this, but a few hours later it began to feel really loose. I've mentioned this problem with my knee in previous blog posts, but it feels as though my leg is going to separate into two pieces at the middle. Weird. I can't simply blame it on the grocery store activity because I've had it happen while simply walking a very short distance at a fairly slow pace. The feeling went away overnight and I only feel the normal pain and discomfort today, so yay for me. One of the annoying things about my motorcycle accident injuries is the uncertainties that they pr...

I allowed the landscaped area in front of my house to become unkept during the winter months. I mean, why bother, right? Yesterday I began the process of getting things right and got to work on gardening in a serious way. I'm not certain how much time I put in, but I finished for the day by the middle of the afternoon. There is still plenty of work left for me and I plan to finish the work either tomorrow or Friday. This morning I awoke and felt some soreness and aches. Nothing intense at all, but I really don't feel that yesterday's labor warrants today's discomfort. As I type this blog entry I find myself wishing that I could blame my accident injuries for today's discomfort, but the truth is that none of my accident injury "locations" are very much sore. It's the rest of me that feels discomfort. So...this all has made me stop to think a little. What I think is that I'm becoming an old dude. It leaves me wondering how my body will handle all of ...