I hate the feelings of pure stupidity when I hurt myself.
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I hate the feelings of pure stupidity when I hurt myself.
As a kid you could just feel sorry for yourself and parents would look after you.
As a caregiver myself I now just feel like a big idiot.
(I'm OK. Sore shoulder and a couple of bruises. Will get shoulder checked out on Monday, hopefully.)
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Andy Carolan :prami:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
@sarajw ouch! Hope you’re ok!
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
Seeing as @markwyner and @yatil asked: I'm actually ashamed of what happened, it's not helping my feelings on the matter.
I was on the e-bike with my kids, a road was closed, no problem as we could use the sidewalk, but there was no ramp up the kerb.
I was like eh, I'll just stay on this top heavy child-laden bike and hump it up over the kerb, but something made me lose our balance and we very slowly fell over sideways together.
I'm having scary thoughts like "What if we'd fallen at speed?"
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
I think I can blame the very slow fall for the shoulder pain, I was doing my best trying to keep us all from going down by presumably pulling very hard on the handlebars with mostly that arm.
40kg of cargo e-bike, 40kg of children, a lot more kg of me once I also became part of the falling unit!
Thankfully the kids were totally fine, and almost laughing, "I didn't get hurt at all!"
Those monkeybar things are great. And there are big footplates so basically they didn't touch the ground at all.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
Anyhow, lesson learned - if I feel unsure about anything like that again, I'll go to what I've already been doing for more obviously tricky obstacles - tell the kids to dismount, and walk it over.
Move the safety bar down a little. Done.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
Shoulder is still angry after a sleep and the arm is weak now, I can't lift it forwards. Suspecting some kind of rotator cuff injury. Hopefully not one that needs surgery
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
Been seen. Signed off from tippity-tapping at my keyboard for 3 days. X-ray tomorrow. If no improvement in 2 weeks then MRI.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
X-ray result all clear for breaks. It can't see tears, so I just have to go easy and monitor for a couple of weeks, and if there's not improvement then we investigate further...
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
My bicep is now angry at me for using my elbow joint a lot more than usual to raise my arm and whatever it's carrying, instead of in combination with whatever muscle I've hurt 🫠 bodies, eh
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Andy Carolan :prami:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
@sarajw Bodies be fragile!
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Andy Carolan :prami:replied to Sara Joy :happy_pepper: last edited by
@sarajw Well, thats a positive result I guess! Just take it as easy as possible!