What a night last night...

It sounds like you are really having a tough go.

I hope today was better than yesterday and that tomorrow will be better than today.

Are you back in NM? I can't recall where you live...is it Grants or Gallup?
 
Zeldman said:
Update:

I woke up around 4am this morning in excruciating pain. My current pain medication could not ease the pain. At 8am I called my doctor and she said come right in.

She gave me a shot of something that would help relax the area of pain. Now I feel like I am melting and sinking into the floor and the pain has eased up a little.

I love living in a small town, but it is also a one horse town. I can't get in to the chiropractor until next Monday.
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Damn. Ya got the good sheet, melting and sinking into the floor and your spelling, punctuation and grammar is perfect.
 
According to this
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it will hurt when you hit the ground either way.
 
3393RP said:
It sounds like you are really having a tough go.

I hope today was better than yesterday and that tomorrow will be better than today.

Are you back in NM? I can't recall where you live...is it Grants or Gallup?
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Thanks, I am definitely grounded until I am off the pain meds for 7 days according to my AME. Back in NM for the winter, right outside of Gallup.

luvflyin said:
Damn. Ya got the good sheet, melting and sinking into the floor and your spelling, punctuation and grammar is perfect.
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Spelchek can make anyone a good speller, but I have always had goodlier grammar....:)

And thank you all for the well wishes. This just a temporary setback. Hopefully the chiropractor will get things back in line so I can be back in the air by spring.
 
deonb said:
This is why I have a boom lift / cherry picker (Genie Z80HD) in my back yard - as ridiculous a thing as it may be for a home owner to have.

But Im not getting up on a ladder for Christmas lights and other general roof work No sir.

I even use it to work on areas thats just 10 feet off the ground sometimes (though that has more to do with not trampling a garden bed).
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Not a bad idea. I have used ladders all my life - and never had an accident. Used to climb towers as well. However, there is a first time for everything - and I'm
over the hill. A man I knew at work fell out of a tree and messed up his back. Ten or so years later he fell off a ladder and made matters much worse. Got
addicted to the painkillers and drifted off to never-never land. At least he was eligible to retire by then.

Dave
 
It seems I may have done more damage that originally thought. When I landed after the fall, it appears I dislocated the top two ribs on my left side. They are pushing into a nerve where the nerves split up and go to other parts of my body. That was explained to me by my doctor. At times I get pain on the back of my shoulder, upper inside arm and wrist, and my thumb, index finger and middle finger are numb. The pain can reach about a 15 on a 1 to 10 scale.

I really don't like taking pain medications but sometimes I just can't tolerate the pain.

In other words, it looks like a winter of chiropractor visits and physical therapy.

I really shoulda used a ladder, or got my wife to fix the light.
 
I fell about 10 days ago and hit something. No broken ribs but my left side still sore.
 
Something fell and hit me two weeks ago today. A big piece of rough sawn cherry lumber hit the back of my head . . . I'm just now able to get the haircut I wanted back then. Swelling is down, no more blood, not painful to the touch anymore. Ain't life grand?
 
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