My Motorcycle Injuries

So...I've been belly-aching in the past few blog entries about my knee. I thought that it was getting ready to fall apart because of some very unusual pain that I've been experiencing but, yeah, it's gone now. I don't know how or why, but it came and went. I still have the "usual" pain and discomfort in my knee, but the funky stuff that I was feeling for several weeks has faded. Conseq uently,  I've been duped by my body again. These things that occur with the various injury locations related to the motorcycle accident really can be an annoyance. The constant changes within the various injury loctions on my body leave me a little leery concerning the coming years and all of the things that I will probably have to endure. I remember a Twilight Zone episode where an older couple went to a futuristic company for the sake of body transplants. They ultimately chose to remain old and live out the remainder of their lives together. Hmm, I'm wondering which wa...

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 ...

  Every once in a while something is said to me that sets my mind in a direction that leaves me a little surprised at my thought process. This afternoon I was at a family birthday function and my daughter got into a conversation with me about tomorrow's church services. She wasn't sure if the building would be cold or hot, so she asked me about the weather forecast in order to dress properly. She was trying to figure out what she would be wearing because she plays the piano and there are a lot of lights that generate heat in the area where she plays. Consequently, it gets hotter up there than the majority of the auditorium. In response I told her that I'm never hot in the church building, even while I'm belting out a sermon. Before the accident I never got cold during any part of the day, but since the accident I'm often cold to the point of serious discomfort. Because of this she asked me if I didn't feel hot during the church services "even before the acc...

  Today I went to the church property for a while in order to get a few things done. As I was trimming a couple of trees that were begining to grow into the dumpster area, I realized that several of the branches were too high for me to reach. I then pushed the dumpster closer to them and used it to climb up on a wall that encloses the space. As I stood on the wall trimming a few brances I briefly considered the fact that I had just climbed onto a dumpster and then jumped onto a wall. I finished the work and climbed down without killing myself, so yay.  In contrast, I'm home now and ten minutes ago I limped when I first stood up because I had been sitting too long. I also had a hard time using my hand because I held my cellphone in one position too long while looking at some photos. I mean, really? I sometimes have a hard time believing the things that I go through. I'm Joe Athlete one minute, and Myron Invalid the next. None of it makes sense to me. I feel like an enigma wrapp...

  Nothing ever seems to settle with my various motorcycle accident injuries. There were a few years in which I seemed to have hit a plateau with the problems related to my body injuries, but those days are long gone. These days my body can't seem to decide what it is that hurts the most or hinders my life in the greatest way. My arm has issues with pain and inabilities from the forearm to the fingertips, but most of the pain and trouble is focused on my hand. Well, for now anyway. My leg has developed a problem with the front of my ankle (I looked it up, and it's called the anterior tibial tendon). The foot on that leg has always been a bit swollen since the accident, which is most noticable to me when I wear shoes, but the pain never existed in the past. Now, the front of my ankle often hurts more than the rest of my leg and it's getting to be a considerable issue when I walk. My tibia was damaged badly in the accident, so it makes sense. The rest of my leg experiences flu...

  A few nights ago I was getting things ready for our Wednesday evening service at church. I always arrive before anyone else with my wife and daughter in order to get things fully prepared for the service. My knee started to bend backward as I was walking at the front of the main auditorium and I came to an abrupt and painful halt. I steadied myself on a communion table and sat for a minute. This has happened to me before over the years, but not to the extent of that evening's near collapse. The stranger thing was that it happened two more times within the next half hour. It's never done that before. The sensation almost feels as though there's nothing holding my leg together at the center and it will fall apart in two seperate sections. The pain goes away soon enough, but the uncertainty that comes with every step taken after this happens lingers for a while. The stranger thing is that I've done a lot of work involving my legs since then. I've been walking, kneeli...