Where I’ve been for the past week and a half
Ah, so on New Years Eve I went sledding, right? And being the big, dumb, hetero meathead that I am, I decided it was a good idea to go off the big-kids jump at the bottom of the hill. The first time wasn’t bad, but the sled slid out from under me in the air and I landed on the hard edge of the sled. The second time I decided that I would hang on to the sled tighter so that didn’t happen again. FWOOM in the air I went, tightly clenching the sled.
Alas, I forgot to monitor my angle of rotation with respect to the ground. If you picture me on the sled as being a big L, I landed hard on the corner of the L.
SSSCRUNNNCH went my spine, pain shot up my back; I landed so hard that my hat flew off my head into the sky and I got the wind knocked out of me. Considering how far away my lungs were from where I landed, that’s quite a feat.
So now I’m on 2400 milligrams of ibuprofen a day (keeps the pain down to a dull roar) and I can’t sit down for more than about 20-30 minutes at a time before I have to lie down again for another five. I get about 8 productive hours of work in at the computer, and since I like to eat, and since I like the fancy “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” health insurance plan that’s putting me back together again, not surprisingly, I’m spending my 8 hours of productive computer time at work. Hence, not much time for blogging or posting photos.
At any rate, yes, I got X-rays, enough that I glow in the dark, I think. No bones broken, the radiologist thinks. I start physical therapy on Monday. I won’t have any idea on how long it’ll take for my back to heal until after the PT evaluates me there, but my doctor assures me that my back will heal fully.
I have to say that Peggy has been amazing through this whole process. She really took those “in sickness and in health” vows to heart. She’s been carrying super heavy things in and out of the car all the time, doing all of the shopping, cooking, and cleaning (normally I do the shopping because she hates dealing with crowds of people and traffic, and I try to do my share of the cooking and cleaning, but it’s tough because she usually cleans things before I notice they’re dirty), and she brings me things when I’m laying down. (After a full day of work combined with the commute, I generally have to spend 2-3 hours laying down in bed. It’s getting pretty boring.) But Peggy brings me drinks and food and books and nearly anything I ask for, and I sit around feeling like a schlump watching MacGyver episodes on DVD.
On the other hand, if someone had asked me what marriage would be like, back when I was 8 or 9 and watching MacGuyver for the first time, I never would have imagined something like this. Back then, I think I would describe “being able to lie around all day watching MacGyver and having someone bring me whatever I want” as “paradise”.
January 12th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
It was inevitable. Welcome to being old!
January 12th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
I feel for you - I had surgery on my ass just before Christmas. I spent a week doing nothing but watching movies (didn’t have Macgyver). I was on percoset and vicoden, though - that was nice. Anyway, get better!
January 13th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Being totally ignorant of what percoset is, the first thing I thought of when associating it with ass surgery is something that sets the proper perk in one’s buttocks.
January 13th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
My wife has always told me I have a nice butt. Perhaps this is why
January 13th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Yeowchers. Sounds like you’ve got my sledding/tubing injury story from .
high school beat, since my damage was short-term and not too painful.
Since it might amuse you (but can’t compete with MacGyver, natch): on my stomach on an inner tube, graceful me hit a bump and lost my balance, planting my face rather forcefully in the ground and sending the tube flying. I lost my short-term memory for 12 hours or so and permanently lost most of that day. My friends had great fun telling me that I was going with them to a Rush concert in a few weeks, then telling me again in 5 minutes and watching me react as if it was new information.
Hope you heal quickly!
January 13th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
The most exciting thing that happened to me due to sledding was a rainbow colored butt cheek that lasted about two weeks. I learned then and there not to go sledding with a big fat wallet in my back pocket again.
January 15th, 2006 at 12:37 am
As a bit of advice if you haven’t had anyone tell you already — you might want to try a chiropractor. My dad messed his back up a few years ago to the point where he couldn’t get out of bed and was told that he’d probably need surgery — after some visits to a chiropractor, he was fine. Most of the family now goes monthly (and I go when I get home)… or more often if anything gets “out of whack”. From my experience it does seem to help.
Although I did pick up season 2 of MacGyver over break, I’ve been getting my fill of Richard Dean Anderson from Stargate. I hadn’t really seen any of it before, but enough people had recommended it to me that I picked up the first 8 seasons after finding a good deal on it. Only 3 more episodes to go and I’ll be finished with the second season (not too bad I suppose for starting last Sunday).
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
hi there, i search a bit and found out that you have multi-user pixel host?
can i get a copy please? thanks.
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Well, the multi-user pixel post support is really hacked in there. I did it all myself and didn’t pretty it up or anything. It wouldn’t really be worth it for you if I gave you a copy; you would have to know so much about PHP and MySQL to get it operational that it’d be easier to write your own.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
a friend of mine went down a 40degree+ concrete hill on his skateboard, fell off and shattered his arm. he had to drive himself to the hospital at 4 in the morning, drunk and stupid.