Indirectly Related

Eight months ago I took a nasty spill in my kitchen. Not with milk, but rather with my body. I wrote about it in this blog that same day. The fall occured when my foot hit a small, yea, miniscule blotch of water on the tile floor. My "accident leg" isn't really strong enough to remain stable when something like that happens, and I went down hard. I thought that I had broken my hip, but things got better daily and in time I thought that it was nothing.

I now belive that it's something. The hip in question hurts from time to time as I function throughout the day, and I often feel pain that causes me to have to roll over to the other side when I lay on it in bed. The real drag about this is that the other side involves the hip that was broken in the accident and repaired surgically with metal screws. That side has been painful for years. What's that you're thinking, gentle reader?  "Hey bonehead, just lay flat on your back instead of on your side when in bed"? Yes, well, the accident related hip also hurts after a while when laying flat on my back. The other hip was my only refuge when laying in bed, and it has now rendered itself defective. 

I really don't know what's wrong with my kitchen floor hip, but I really would prefer to not find out. A little more pain pales in comparison to more surgery. It's just that it's a little frustrating to have my weaker leg cause a fall that now makes laying in bed more difficult because of my other hip. Hmm...perhaps I should buy a small plastic swimming pool in which I can simply float and use it for the sake of nocturnal bliss. Nah, the water would probably cause me to slip and fall each morning.