I’ve decided that since I don’t do technical work anymore, I’m becoming addle-brained. Ok, so some of you are asking questions like “what do you mean becoming?”
Thursday afternoon, I went to my doctor’s office to pick up some papers for my wife. As I approached the building, I was reading the names of doctors on the door and trying to figure out how many of them have changed since I was there last. As I reached the sidewalk, I crossed from sunlight to shadow. At that moment, the entire building and sidewalk must have risen six inches because there was suddenly a curb catching my feet and tripping me.
I actually had not even seen the curb. I went down on my left knee followed by my right. My hands shot out straight ahead of me and hit palms flat against the glass door (not the most gracious of break falls I had ever done). (I’m probably lucky that the glass held.) When I got up I saw that I had ripped my left pant leg and scraped my knee, and that my left shoulder was a bit sore. But what I was feeling most was… stupid.
I got up and shook it off as I have shaken off many a fall in my day. (Years ago, I took Aikido, a Japanese martial art. I learned a lot of techniques, and how to fall without getting hurt, or hurt too badly. Unfortunately, those are mostly back falls, not front falls. They worked great when I slipped on ice, or fell on skates and stuff, but can’t help with this type of fall. Now, a flip or roll would have been appropriate, but there wasn’t enough room.) I went inside and the girl asked if I was ok. I told her yes, and that it was a good thing I was coming to a doctor’s office. I didn’t make anything more of it As I picked up my bag from the floor, I noticed a bit of pain in my shoulder now that the numbness was starting to wear off (I wish it had worn off of my head quite a while before). In driving, I found I couldn’t use my left arm. Not good.
I called back to the office when I reached the studio, and told them that they might want to do something to make that more visible. They asked if I needed treatment, but I can put on a band-aid and take ibuprofen (which is actually an anti-inflammatory) for the muscle pulls.
Several applications of Reiki, and some time in the hot tub that night made it much better. However yesterday, I had two clients. The one in the morning was a bit painful (for me that is). I kept going to some of the Lomi Lomi moves as I could just lock the arm and use my body. By the time the second one rolled around, I was able to change my body mechanics to deal with the injury so that I didn’t hurt as much.
What’s the lesson here? Well I think the first is that although I like being in the astral plane, I had better pay attention to the physical reality around me. One other is that I am not working at a desk anymore, and I have to be physically able to work. Lastly, I’m not 15 anymore. I just don’t bounce back as quickly as I used to. I guess that’s what happens when people get old (not that I’d have any reason to know that).
Oh well, I thought you all might get a chuckle out of that. I’ll keep posting out here as long as I don’t fall off my
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