Oh, Ann, so sorry to hear about this. There, there. Do take care, and rest, and let yourself fully recover. Geez, that sucks. Had a bit of a sore back last summer, and I took care to nurse it. For the back, use ice. I used a bag of frozen vegetables—peas. Ice is best for sore back according to my friend who sees a chiropractor and has a bit of a back issue. As soon as I started icing my back, it started to heal up right away.
Hope you have a speedy recovery. xoxo Christine > On Feb 4, 2017, at 4:01 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Last Friday I found the perfect way to clear my brain from the elephant in > the room ... > > I fell off of a wheely chair (office chair in my kitchen ) - The chair has > been tossed out.. it was not well balanced, and I was jsut sitting on it and > leaned forward to pick something up off the kitchen floor... which slants a > bit.. tried Not to fall (usually a bad idea) and the chair threw me like a > mechanical bull at a Texas bar... > I only slightly exagerate for color... sprained my lower back, hit the back > of my head on the kitchen sink.... this was Friday night a week ago... > > I piled an icepack on my goose egg and another on my back ... No broken > bones... I checked on line that the area of my head that got bumped was a > pretty low candidate to cause a concussion (about 4 inches above the top of > my left ear.) Ice wsa applied for about 3 hours to both areas, a lot of > words with friends ws played and the serious news of the day ignored. Head > wasn not very hurt and swelling went down quickly - but the way I twisted my > back was giving me a lot of pain. two Naproxin Sodium pills were swallowed - > I normally onlly take one if I hurt say 5 or 6 on a scale of 10.. this was > like 15 on a scale of 1 -10. > > Then I called a friend who I knew I wouldnt impose on by crying and bitching > to him, because he lives north of Boston, is wonderful at "there, there" and > pretty savvy medically... and another friend in NY who is too imobile for his > own problems to be able to come help. > > saturday I applied heat - I had some stuff here and a friend and neighbor > fetched more.. got out with a cane on MOnday with some difficulty.. staye in > for the worst weather on Tuesday, walked again on Wed, and each day after... > > getting out of bed was intense .. the layered foam was too squishy... again, > helpful hands helped me remove a layer and roll it up in both my main bed and > the office twin... > > Last night was the first night I could get out of bed with only moderate pain > and today I walked about 1/2 a mile without cane... > > It was just so annoying because I had lost weight, had gotten a lovely check > up in December , hardly felt the knee arthritis and was in full get things > accomplished mode. > > Also had some weird stuff witht he computer but that seems to have been > nothing.. .. > > It will surely be a month or so before I'm really right again, as long as I > don't get too cocky and think I'm in better shape than I am... glad it didn't > require > hospitals or doctors or the like... > > There, theres appreciated. > > thanks for reading the rant > > ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
