Fear of Clowns

A week ago today, I read a few protocols on broken ribs and discovered doctors don't do anything for the injury except prescribe strong painkillers. They don't even "tape" it up anymore.

Fortunately - immediately prior to my research - I broke a rib or two. So I saved myself and other taxpayers an uninsured trip to the emergency room. Save my chronic childhood ear infections and the after-effects of a liver biopsy, it was the most severe pain I've experienced.

I'm pretty tough when it comes to lying lazily in bed for extended periods, so the first two days were spent reading in bed while doing my best to move nothing but my eyes and the pages. When I did move, I pretended the painful area was a basketball spinning on a single string of uncooked spaghetti, moving very slowly and deliberately.

By now, the pain is just an ache except when I cough ... or sneeze - which I've done once since the injury, this morning. It really hurt. Man.

I was able to carry my bike down and up the stairs just fine tonight, so the Calhoun photos will start up again tomorrow.

// posted by Erik @ 9/15/2005 08:45:00 PM
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