Winter wonderland

Well, it happened to me. I was walking ome with groceries Friday night, and while trying to step through the bad plowing by the city, I hit an unseen patch of ice and down I went. Was one of those unexpected falls. W was walking, then I was down surrounded by my groceries. Suppose that's a better fall - when you expect it you tend to stick your hands out and break a wrist or such.

But my shoulder took the brunt of the fall. I couldn't lift my arm up due to pain in my shoulder, but my lower arm and hand worked fine. I made it home with bruised apples in tow. Started popping pills and tried to ride out my evening, knowing things would be sore in the morning.

I got a little suspicious in the morning. I figured a hot shower and some stretching would help work out the shoulder. Neither worked well, so I made a "day of" appointment at the HMO. I've been diagnosed with a probably torn rotator cuff. Kinda glad I went, as the 'to do' list for this is to "do nothing", so stretching might be great for sore muscles, but it's completely terrible for tendons. At the moment instructions are to take even more pills and wear a sling wheneve rpossible to keep the sholder from moving about too much. They want me to minimise any potential additional damage until we can get a better diagnosis.

So I need to see an orthopedist on Monday, who'll do more tests and see how good or bad my shoulder really is. Between the drugs and the slin there's no real pain, but it's annoying I can't really do anything around the house today. I had planned to tid up and put things away and all, but that isn't goign to happen. Mostly DVDs and slumming on the computer.

I love winter.