25 May
Thank God, it's Friday! I am so rattled that I actually just typed that preceding sentence thinking that I was making it up. I have been lasering in on this Memorial Day weekend for months, months I say!
My elbow hurts. My elbow has been hurting for some months, but now it's really really starting to hurt all of the time, every time I put stress on my elbow in any way. Did you know that scratching your head puts stress on your elbow? I have become an expert on what does and does not put stress on your elbow.
Eating a cookie (not the chewing, the lifting)
Tightening the cap on a soda bottle
Opening a door
Carrying groceries (kind of goes without saying)
Stamping invoices
Lifting an envelope and transferring it from one hand to another
Swinging your arms as you walk (sometimes, I suppose it depends on how enthusiastic you are, or, in my case, how uptempo the song in my Walkman)
Pushing your glasses up your nose
Turning keys in a lock
Moving a cat
Using a stapler
Coughing (again, not the coughing, the covering your mouth)
Things that do not put stress on an elbow:
Typing
Breathing
Flaring your nostrils
Talking
Keeping your arm pointed straight down as God intended it to be
Basically, all I am doing anytime I am awake, is doing the bulldog with the kitten on its back "Ooh ow eeh ooch eech oof" thing. It's like a toothache, you never notice that your teeth don't hurt, you never notice that your elbow is bending and flexing and lifting and moving and not hurting until the day when that is no longer true.
I suppose I should get it checked out, but I'm certain that if I just ignore it, it will magically get better all on its own. Then I'll flap my arms and fly to the moon. I can't do that now, because it will put too much stress on my elbow.
Lenten entries missed:
Tessarae talks about getting screwed over, and more getting screwed over, got a job, met another journaller, and realized how much better her daughter was getting.
Today's
horoscope:
Make that minor repair or improvement you've been putting off. You'll be more effective and feel better.
One year ago today:
FRAN
Me as a drunken Irish-American, you as a big tough girl with a heart of gold, who could ever have imagined that?
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