I could have used it Wednesday
October 28, 2010 (Thursday)
Writing this blog Wednesday night. This has not been one of my better days. Last night I dreamed weird stuff and woke up long before daylight with a very painful hand. I have swallowed as many pills as I could safely take today, trying to ease the pain. I don’t have any idea what the problem is, but if it doesn’t go away on its own, I’ll go to the doctor. My own M.D. (My Diagnosis) qualifies me to say that it’s something I did that irritated my old body. In recent years I have seen it happen several times with different parts of the body. Little things I used to do without ever thinking about it now turn out to be consequential acts and the consequences are soreness and/or pain. Usually it goes away pretty quickly. We’ll see. I’m typing this blog tonight, but this morning I could not have done it. It would have been “hunt and peck” with one hand. So, it’s getting better already. I’ll be OK quickly, not like Tony Romo, who will be out for six to eight weeks with a broken collar bone.
Actually, I’ve had some kind of problem with my hands for over 50 years. It never shows up unless I work with my hands fairly intensively, and that doesn’t happen any more than I can help. It always goes away about as quickly as it came.
I have something in common with the Dallas Quarterback, Tony Romo. I, too, broke my collar bone. Of course, I was only about 5 years old at the time, and it was because I fell from my father’s back (playing “horsie”) about two feet onto a wood floor, and not, as in Romo’s case, because a huge opponent threw me down and landed on top of me. My father and uncle took me to a clinic but I refused to get out of the car. They offered me money but I refused it. Then they promised me ice cream and I accepted the bribe. Shameless. The doc put a flexible brace on me. I guess it worked, unless that’s the reason I always lean toward my right when speaking in public.
Most of us are like the Timex watch: “Takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.”