So, since my roomie finked on me yesterday morning, here's what happened:
Sunday evening I went out to the garage to shift some supplies into the house. Coming up the short, three-tread flight of steps from the back door into the kitchen, I had my arms full of a 12-pack of Diet Dew and a 20-lb sack of cat litter, while my hands were juggling my keychain and the door to the kitchen.
As the door swung open inwards, I took a bad step on the stairs and came down with my full weight on the brass-clad edge of the tile kitchen floor, right on my right kneecap. I let out a yell that would curl your hair, and promptly curled into a whimpering fetal ball on the kitchen floor, sure I'd split my kneecap.
Bobbi, probably worried she might be dealing with a rental vacancy to judge by the sound effects this pratfall generated, came running into the kitchen to see me writhing like an Italian soccer player on the tile. She immediately tried to get some ice on my knee. I was groaning "Shut the basement door!" through gritted teeth.
"Let's get some ice on that knee first," she replied, sensibly.
"The cats'll get into the basement!"
"I don't think we need to worry about the cats."
Good point. I'm sure that they had retreated to whatever extradimensional space it is cats go to when there's lots of thumping and banging and yelling and other various, sudden cat-startling noises.
Anyhow. I'm sure it's not broken, although I'm still favoring it a bit. I did make the mistake of kneeling on it for a fraction of a second while trying to put a new cover on the futon, but I was distracted from the pain by my head and back hitting the ceiling.
Like they say, that which does not kill us...
I hope you didn't break it but it sounds like you BRUISED it a lot. Have a local witchdoctor x-ray it & feel better soon. I just fell on my tailbone (coccyx)on cement, so I do feel your pain, just in a different spot.
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I recently decided I was tired of being fat and inflexible, so I started working out.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel your pain, necessarily, but I sure feel a lot of my own.
I hope your knee gets better soon. :)
Ouch! Hope you feel better soon, and heal up well.
ReplyDeleteSeems to be a lot of pain in the gun blogging community these days.
ReplyDeleteI blame George W. Bush.
Like they say, that which does not kill us...
ReplyDelete... still hurts like a mother...?
That which does not kill us, sets us up for that which does.
ReplyDeleteThat which does not kill us...
ReplyDeletehas made a grave tactical error.
sj,
ReplyDelete"That which does not kill us...
has made a grave tactical error."
I want that on a t-shirt. :D
I let out a yell that would curl your hair
ReplyDelete...but before you could move, RX grabbed her a chair... ;-)
Hope you get better soon, Tam.
That which does not kill us ....
ReplyDelete...learns from the experience...?
Oh, damn. I hope everything is cool for upcoming activities. As had been said many times: "If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans".
ReplyDeleteTake care and get off of that knee.
Oh, can you tell me how many times I have to run borepatches through an Arisaka Type 38? Been at it all night. Hoppes #9, Break Free Clp, wire brush, etc. I have given up for tonight. The thing can soak in CLP tonight.
*cough*.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'. ;)
That which does not kill us...
ReplyDeletehas made a grave tactical error.
Maxim 35?
Sometimes, pain is weakness leaving the body. Sometimes, pain is Elvis, leaving the auditorium. Sometimes pain is Klutz, leaving you on the floor in pieces. Hope you're mended soonest.
ReplyDeleteKeads: Flitz, a jag and a patch is your friend.
ReplyDeleteTam,
ReplyDeleteAm I right to assume that it doesn't take a compound fracture for the bone to show?
Glenn
Okay, so maybe it's a good thing that all the nerves in my knee are dead. Makes it a bitch to kneel, but it never hurts (which means that I may eventually shatter it again, & won't know it until I look down).
ReplyDeleteBeer & pain meds (but that's redundant), Tam.
--Tennessee Budd
That which does not kill us...
ReplyDeletemakes us stiff and sore the next morning.
It is entirely possible to not only bruise your kneecap, but to also bruise the bone and cartiledge behind the kneecap. I've done it. Though the doctor couldn't figure out how I'd done so without smashing the kneecap to pieces. If thats what you've done you're in for a painfull few weeks, cause EVERY move you make will result in the kneecap bumping bone bruises....
ReplyDeleteGlenn,
ReplyDelete"Am I right to assume that it doesn't take a compound fracture for the bone to show?"
It doesn't count as "hurting" if you rub some dirt in it and walk it off. After the initial screaming, I mean. ;)
That which does not kill us...
ReplyDeletehas made a grave tactical error.
Maxim 35?
Yep
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I hope it heals quickly. You might ask B. about the joint supplement she's been taking.
ReplyDelete"I did make the mistake of kneeling on it for a fraction of a second while trying to put a new cover on the futon, but I was distracted from the pain by my head and back hitting the ceiling."
ReplyDeleteHeh! That's the first time I've really laughed out loud since last Thursday morning 'bout 1020.
Us folks who've wrecked motorcycles don't need to be banging knee caps. Get well soon...
Your knee, my elbow.
ReplyDeleteIf it balloons up like a sack of...puffy stuff, after the ice put a compression bandage on it to actively push the swelling down. Don't forget your ibuprofen.
I couldda sworn my was chipped but the X-rays revealed not, or naught.
It took a month+ for all the "fluid" to be re-absorbed, but I'm old.
It's still tender and I can't do "slow prone" (or any of the other positions). I need to find some kind of elbow gel-pad - neoprene is just like a band-aid, it's too thin, it's like the difference between concealment and cover you want cover.
Ouch! Be careful with yourself. Your starting to sound like me. Injuries make for entertaining stories, but I know they aren't as much fun to live through.
ReplyDeletegrave tactical error...heh. I like that.
It seems to be pain season for commenters too. Tore a muscle in my calf yesterday. Race you back to health!
ReplyDeleteYou never seem to do anything halfway, you know that, right?
ReplyDeleteHope it heals quickly and cleanly.
"Like they say, that which does not kill us..."
ReplyDeleteends up as blog fodder somewhere.
Hope it feels better soon.
I noticed that "that which does not kill us... " had an expiration date of around age 30. After which, that which hurt me started making me feel older and slightly closer to death.
ReplyDeletemakes us stronger. That or paraplegic.
ReplyDeleteStingray: Cough...
ReplyDeleteShe needs underwear with taunts printed on them?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery. It's been my view that stairs are more dangerous than "assault weapons", but the data would be difficult to normalize.
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