Tuesday, April 27, 2010

My poor left side

Every time I get injured, it's the left side of my body.
Cases in point:
1. (by far the most serious) Tripped up the stone stairs in my friends dorm, slamming my knee against the edge of a stair, moving my knee cap and hitting the actual knee underneath, causing permanent damage.
2. Smashed my finger between a cart and a counter at work causing a blood blister beneath the nail, as well as my heart rate to drop to about 40 as I almost fainted.
3. Slammed the back of my thigh on the counter at work, as I gracefully fell off of it, making me unable (for a couple weeks) to sit.
4. Was attacked by a 50lb box of potatoes that fell off of a shelf at work, giving me a nasty nasty bruise on my calf.
5. Banged the back of my hand against a cupboard at work, pinching the nerve or something, making it nearly impossible for me to bend my fingers enough to grab anything.
6. Cut myself on the saran wrap cutter thing at work (a few times now) drawing blood.
And my one last night (this took talent):
7. I had squatted down to get something off one of the shelves by my bed. I then stood up. Small problem - my knee was under the bed frame. The knee cap moved (down this time, instead of up), and holy crap, ow. Ow ow ow. Today as I gimped around work all I could think was, "'OOOOOOWWWW. Can somebody get the knife and fork out of my leg, please? Can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees?'"
I don't know what it is with my left side. Maybe since I'm right-handed I don't think my left side is that important. Maybe I had a silent stroke and instead of being paralyzed, I just have no left-side awareness. Maybe I figure that if I'm gonna need knee replacement surgery, I'd rather only need it on one knee. I don't know. But right now, my knee very much hurts.

6 comments:

Celeste said...

On the plus side, your appendix is on your right. Looks like you're safe there.

Kimberly said...

Ouch!
I hope you feel better soon!

lucy said...

thank you both.
today i didn't feel like there were eating utensils shoved into my knee, so that was good. it was still sore, but it felt more like how it does on a normal day when it flares up from the first injury.

chelleybutton said...

Ouch. Sorry. :( I love that song though, thanks. :)

Ooh! Now you have spam too! But I think I like my one about blessings better. ;) Here, I'll do it: many blessings to you! :)

lucy said...

yeah, the chinese have been spamming me a lot lately. i don't know why. usually i catch it before you do, though. they never say anything nice about blessings, though. unless maybe they do, but i don't know it cuz it's in chinese (or japanese or whatever).

lucy said...

my knee still hurts :(