It’s telling me something if I could just listen
You know how some people say they their arthritic knee is hurting, so they know it’s about to rain? Or maybe it’s about to snow, they can feel it in their feet or something?
I broke my wrist in high school. I was doing something stupid, and the story is pretty boring - typical of big things like that, where you would’ve been screwed if you lived a hundred or two hundred years ago.
And my wrist hurts.
It hasn’t really bothered me in a while, but every now and then it hurts so bad I can hardly move it, and I certainly can’t depend on it to carry anything or to lean on.
It’s weird, and I don’t understand it. And I always wonder what it’s telling me. Is it about to rain? Is the barometer dropping? Or maybe it’s some extrasensory thing, and it’s telling me something more important. Maybe my wrist can tell me when the stock market is about to drop or I’m about to get a raise or Timmy fell down a well.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I broke my kneecap in high school, and it does seem to hurt when the weather’s changing.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I think my wrist only hurts to tell me my wrist is hurting. It’s too sporadic to be useful.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Breaking a kneecap sounds incredibly painful, btw.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
As much as I know it bothers you and aches, I think you’re probably lucky you broke it.
I stepped in a hole in the back yard about four years ago and fell and twisted my foot and ankle HARD, but not hard enough to break it… though as much as it hurt - and as black and purple as it got - I was surprised. By that afternoon, I couldn’t take the pain anymore and got myself into see one of the orthopaedic guys down the hall from our office. He took a look and felt a bit and was sending me to get it x-rayed, but said if it wasn’t broken, I was probably going to wish I had broken it.
Man, was he right. I not only get the aches and pains and swelling with the weather, but I can do very little walking and stuff without it swelling and hurting. The other day after walking through the airport all day? It was so swollen it didn’t even look like a foot and ankle. Ugh. And now my right foot and ankle tend to swell and ache too (though not as bad) ‘cos I don’t walk quite right anymore thanks to the bad one.
So I know it doesn’t help much to say “consider yourself lucky” when it hurts and is bothering you, but probably is the much better thing you fully broke it.
My dad broke something playing football in HS (knee, leg, something or other) and used to get the same pains you’re talking about whenever it was going to rain or whenever it was just wet/damp, and though orthopaedics wasn’t my specialty, I think folks that break things do tend to get some arthritis in those areas. Especially as they age, so, well…
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 am
Damn, that sounds painful!