-=> Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley <=-   
      
    AH>  I developed a rotator cuff (shoulder muscle) injury   
    AH>  akin to your bursitis.  [...]   
      
    JB>  No... I doubt it. My bursitis is self inflicted.    
      
      
    AH>           In retrospect, I had been pushing my physical   
    AH> limits for some time... but until the pain settled in I   
    AH> didn't consciously add everything up.  Seems to me you know   
    AH> when you're overdoing it.  I'll know better in future   
    AH> (maybe).  :-)   
      
   Good luck with that!  Did you - in retrospect - see signs that you    
   should slow down with the rotating at the cuff, or did you just wake up    
   with it?   
      
   As you know, I have such a nerve deficit from surgical damage, it took me    
   forever to recognize my boundaries, and another eternity before I *started*    
   to respect them. I still often need to cue into secondary symptoms to    
   realize that damage has occurred, and those often show up days later,    
   so....   
      
    JB>  Seriously, this isn't the first time it has given you   
    JB>  trouble, right?   
      
      
    AH>           You're thinking of the other shoulder... [wry grin].   
      
   I trust you'll forgive my ignorance?  I have an axiom for    
   carpentry. Never hit your left thumb so hard, that it can't swing the same    
   hammer into the right thumb. 'Ya think it'll catch on?  Seriously, I    
   suppose exercise is in order once you have the pain under control?   
      
    AH>           According to our chiropractor, it's inflammation.  He has a   
    AH> technique for draining the lymph glands which seems to have   
    AH> helped a lot.  He is also the person who initially compared   
    AH> it to bursitis... which, BTW, both my father & my father-in-   
    AH> law had many years ago.  I gather any repetitive motion   
    AH> involving the shoulder (such as hammering nails or digging   
    AH> up the vegetable garden in spring) can lead to this sort of   
    AH> problem, especially with people who are middle-aged or   
    AH> older & whose endurance isn't quite what it used to be.  I   
    AH> imagine you may have been building yet another fence when   
    AH> your shoulder said "Enough, already!"  ;-)   
      
   My shoulder? I thought we were talking about your (other) shoulder?     
      
   Coincidentally - *maybe* sympathetically |-) I woke in the middle of the    
   night to what I imagine was rotator cuff "inflammation". I guess my gland    
   drained itself, because it was mostly gone by morning. But, back to you....   
      
      
    AH>           Yes.  I had been negligent WRT the exercises I generally do   
    AH> during TV commercial breaks.  (To me they're boring, as are the   
    AH> majority of commercials.) Although these exercises involve   
    AH> both shoulders, we seldom watch much TV in the warmer &   
    AH> drier months.  Then summer's end found me in circumstances   
    AH> akin to the latter.  It's a long story, but I am beginning   
    AH> to see the humour in it....  :-)   
      
   Well, that's the first dose of medicine.  Funny, but I managed to put my first bed in for *years* this    
   summer. Mostly, I threw a bunch of stuff in to keep the weeds at bay until    
   some strawberry can establish them self in the nursery, and found a few    
   things that are going to return next year.    
      
   Did this summer find you too digging in the dirt?   
      
    JB>  [...] to swing your arm up and down?   
      
      
    AH>           Yes, or lift it high enough to brush your own   
    AH> teeth without some kind of support for the shoulder.  I   
    AH> kept my elbows close to my body & supported the injured   
    AH> side with the opposite hand at first.  And contrary to   
    AH> proper etiquette   
    AH> ... i.e. as generally prescribed for "strong & able" young   
    AH> folks at summer camp   
    AH> ... I made use of any available surface for support when I had to raise   
    AH> my hand to my mouth at mealtimes.  I'm practising to be a   
    AH> feisty old lady some day.  If others would rather I starve   
    AH> than put my elbows on the table, I've got news for them!   
      
   "Feisty [...] lady some day." Because of the modifier qualifying the    
   statement, I'll let it slip this one time.    
      
    AH> For those who aren't so hung up on convention I'd be more   
    AH> than delighted to explain how I've modified my computer   
    AH> desk & chair at no extra cost....  :-)   
      
   I'm almost afraid to ask, but when it's in you to explain....    
      
    JB>  *think* I can forgive you for your reticence. [-|{   
      
    AH>           Aww, shucks!  Thanks....  :-)   
      
   ... The *least* I could do.    
      
      
    AH>           I start to worry about you when I haven't heard a peep out of   
    AH> Calgary in two months because Kevin's system is down.   
      
   He had a few issues. One was moving to a new OS, ROMDOS and it sounds like    
   I took out his modem while downloading a mail package. As long as his    
   health holds - that's the main thing. The rest is just toys and trinkets.   
      
    AH> Apart from that... I realize I'm a weirdo.  All my   
    AH> favourite people are weirdos.  How could it be otherwise   
    AH> when we're dealing with weird stuff hardly anybody else   
    AH> understands?  If it takes me awhile to answer sometimes, it   
    AH> may also be I'm blown away that you do....  :-))   
      
   Line starts behind me, sister!    
      
      
   ... James   
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