Jack fell down
25 February 2025 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI managed to trip up on my way from the kitchen (in which there is no room for a table) to the dining-room and splatter my entire dinner all over the floor. So instant noodles for supper, once I had managed to scrub the tomato stains out of the carpet...
Fortunately I fell on my left elbow, so most of the vertical splatterage went on the wall to my right rather than into the bookcase on my left. Unfortunately I fell directly on my left elbow, and sat there huddled on the floor cradling the agony in the joint and breathing deeply through gritted teeth for some minutes before venturing upon the clean-up operation. It is still very painful when touched, although it functions well enough, and it will probably stiffen up overnight. I hope it will be be sufficiently recovered for me to play my violin later in the week, but as it is the left elbow and not the wrist I suppose it only has to remain extended immobile!
I cancelled the putative telephone assessment for my hand, incidentally. I was sent an e-mail a week before the telephone call was due telling me to go to a website and fill in a form beforehand; the link didn't work and my hand was in any case mostly recovered by that point after I had worked out that the issue was probably tech-induced RSI of some sort. Doesn't explain why it flared up over the weeks when I had zero access to tech of any sort, but after changing my habits the pain migrated from the back of my hand to my funnybone where it was much more ignorable and seemed to be improving, so I had already been wondering if I ought to cancel the appointment and yield up my 'slot' to someone else with an actual diagnosis. And since I was very sceptical as to the utility of a telephone examination/therapy in the first place further tech barriers were just the final straw.
Unsurprisingly it proved far simpler to cancel the 'appointment' than to obtain it, but my likelihood of making any further attempt to contact my GP in future, already low by natural inclination, has now gone through the floor. Unless it's an emergency I shan't be bothering, and if it is an emergency I shall be going straight to the hospital (there no doubt to join the queue of people who can't see their GPs for routine issues...)
However it is the same elbow afflicted, which probably doesn't help!
Fortunately I fell on my left elbow, so most of the vertical splatterage went on the wall to my right rather than into the bookcase on my left. Unfortunately I fell directly on my left elbow, and sat there huddled on the floor cradling the agony in the joint and breathing deeply through gritted teeth for some minutes before venturing upon the clean-up operation. It is still very painful when touched, although it functions well enough, and it will probably stiffen up overnight. I hope it will be be sufficiently recovered for me to play my violin later in the week, but as it is the left elbow and not the wrist I suppose it only has to remain extended immobile!
I cancelled the putative telephone assessment for my hand, incidentally. I was sent an e-mail a week before the telephone call was due telling me to go to a website and fill in a form beforehand; the link didn't work and my hand was in any case mostly recovered by that point after I had worked out that the issue was probably tech-induced RSI of some sort. Doesn't explain why it flared up over the weeks when I had zero access to tech of any sort, but after changing my habits the pain migrated from the back of my hand to my funnybone where it was much more ignorable and seemed to be improving, so I had already been wondering if I ought to cancel the appointment and yield up my 'slot' to someone else with an actual diagnosis. And since I was very sceptical as to the utility of a telephone examination/therapy in the first place further tech barriers were just the final straw.
Unsurprisingly it proved far simpler to cancel the 'appointment' than to obtain it, but my likelihood of making any further attempt to contact my GP in future, already low by natural inclination, has now gone through the floor. Unless it's an emergency I shan't be bothering, and if it is an emergency I shall be going straight to the hospital (there no doubt to join the queue of people who can't see their GPs for routine issues...)
However it is the same elbow afflicted, which probably doesn't help!