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Jan. 30th, 2002 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaSo, a good night of dancing on Monday - right up until the middle of a fairly rowdy walk-through of Picking Up Sticks, when Paul accidentally tripped me. Or tripped over me. I'm not clear of the sequence. I was doing the steps, and paying attention to my partner, and laughing, and then suddenly I was completely off-balance and trying hard not to fall.
That was probably my mistake. I should have fallen. But instead, I came down extremely hard on my right foot to balance myself, and the shock of it went all the way up to the hip.
In the moment, it didn't hurt enough to leave the dance. I staggered a bit and clutched Carl's arm, and I felt kind of light-headed. But I finished the walk-through and danced the dance and went to sit down, and then my hip started to ache persistently. And Paul came over to apologize, and I told him it was nothing to worry about - I was just going to sit out a dance to rest, and then I changed my mind and left altogether.
That was Monday, and today it still hurts. Nothing dramatic, just a quiet throbbing pain and some difficulty walking. I'm doing the things I know how t do, rest and heat and anti-inflammatories. I'm trying not to make a big deal out of it. It's still much less pain than I used to have every day. I can still walk. But it's a little scary to think about everyday pain coming back.
The ironic part of all this is that I've recently gotten into a rasseff discussion with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aiglet about chronic pain and the things I've learned from it. I'm having superstitious thoughts that I should have left the topic severely alone.
That was probably my mistake. I should have fallen. But instead, I came down extremely hard on my right foot to balance myself, and the shock of it went all the way up to the hip.
In the moment, it didn't hurt enough to leave the dance. I staggered a bit and clutched Carl's arm, and I felt kind of light-headed. But I finished the walk-through and danced the dance and went to sit down, and then my hip started to ache persistently. And Paul came over to apologize, and I told him it was nothing to worry about - I was just going to sit out a dance to rest, and then I changed my mind and left altogether.
That was Monday, and today it still hurts. Nothing dramatic, just a quiet throbbing pain and some difficulty walking. I'm doing the things I know how t do, rest and heat and anti-inflammatories. I'm trying not to make a big deal out of it. It's still much less pain than I used to have every day. I can still walk. But it's a little scary to think about everyday pain coming back.
The ironic part of all this is that I've recently gotten into a rasseff discussion with
aiglet about chronic pain and the things I've learned from it. I'm having superstitious thoughts that I should have left the topic severely alone.
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Date: 2002-01-30 07:48 am (UTC)Um. You didn't need to know? I didn't want to worry you? I didn't want to sound like a whiner? It's not that big a deal? I was hoping to get major stoicism points?
Nah, I'm not going to try to get away with any of those. The fact is that I wasn't really worried about it myself until last night. It's not unusual for me to have stiffness and soreness for a day after significant exertion, so it was a while before I put things together and said, "You know, I think I hurt myself."
I know I don't have to tell you that any prolonged unusual (for these times) pain should send you to the doctor. But you know, any prolonged unusual pain should [...]
Yeah. I think I'll give it a week, and if it still hurts I'll go have it X-rayed.
A *week* ?!
Date: 2002-01-30 05:04 pm (UTC)Unless you're showing dramatic improvement today, I would hope you would go sooner than a week. Joint damage is nothing to trifle with, as you well know.
--me
p.s. perhaps it's out of line for me to say, but would lessons on "how to fall" be of use to you?
Re: A *week* ?!
Date: 2002-02-03 01:58 am (UTC)Re: A *week* ?!
Date: 2002-02-03 06:41 am (UTC)