My Motorcycle Injuries

  Yeah, I made a funny. See, Kawasaki's main slogan years ago was "let the good times roll", and I rode a Kawasaki. Hilarious, right? Wrong?  Anyhoo, the times continue to roll in my life. The thing that I've been dealing with this past week is the bottom half of my leg. I've had pretty savage cramps in my "injured" leg since I came home from the hospital years ago. It starts in my calf but works its way down to my foot. If I try to bend my foot at the ankle in any way, I then experience pain that causes me to dream of a morphine addiction. The only way to make it ease up involves standing up and bending my ankle into a full standing position. The process is slow and excruciating. I had a pretty bad episode of this thing in my lower leg two nights ago, and the pain is now lingering all day in my calf. There's always pain throughout my entire leg, but this is more of a special, I deserve all of your attention type of pain. I can only hope that I cramp...

If you read from my first blog entry forward, you can see a progression that vacillates from better to worse to better, etc.  My problem these days with the aftereffects of the motorcycle injuries lies with the fact that things don’t seem to be getting better anymore. My hip, thigh, knee, and shin are in a perpetual state of despair. The pain and discomfort are never anything that I would call severe by any measure, but things do vary between being an annoyance and actually being a hindrance. I don’t like the idea of taking pain meds, so yeah, life is a daily party of erratic discomfort. My arm has decided to join the party lately by providing a fairly pronounced pain throughout the forearm, with my guess being that it is related to the tendon damage done by the broken radius bone that has caused a great deal of trouble since the accident. I guess that my point is this; putting up with so many injuries inflicted upon your body at one time can take you beyond any feeling of invincib...

                                                                                                My two unattractive legs as they appear now.                                                                                                                    Guess which one was heavily damaged by a motorcycle accident? My leg has been giving me more trouble lately. I have had pain in my leg to some extent since the accident 4 ½ years ago, but the past few weeks hav...