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sparkindarkness) wrote2006-06-29 01:57 pm
sparkindarkness) wrote2006-06-29 01:57 pm
Interesting factoid about bruising
It hurts soon after getting bruises.
But that's nothing compared to the morning after.
Go to bed with bruises, wake up the next morning... then try to MOVE...
ARGH SOMEONE HAS REPLACED ALL MY MUSCLES WITH ROUGHLY SANDED BLOCKS OF WOOD! OWWWWW!
I am told that the above being screamed at high volume is not a good alarm clock, even for morning people - beloved was not amused.
Oh and MENTAL NOTE: If bruised muscles make you even more lazy than usual so you just drop things on the floor for sympathtic boyfriends to pick up it is important to remember that a) he is laughing at your pain, not comiserating and probably not picking anything up and b) where you dropped the hair brush - ESPECIALLY when you are walking around in bare feet.
Some mornings you just want to go back to bed - the day is clearly out to get you
But that's nothing compared to the morning after.
Go to bed with bruises, wake up the next morning... then try to MOVE...
ARGH SOMEONE HAS REPLACED ALL MY MUSCLES WITH ROUGHLY SANDED BLOCKS OF WOOD! OWWWWW!
I am told that the above being screamed at high volume is not a good alarm clock, even for morning people - beloved was not amused.
Oh and MENTAL NOTE: If bruised muscles make you even more lazy than usual so you just drop things on the floor for sympathtic boyfriends to pick up it is important to remember that a) he is laughing at your pain, not comiserating and probably not picking anything up and b) where you dropped the hair brush - ESPECIALLY when you are walking around in bare feet.
Some mornings you just want to go back to bed - the day is clearly out to get you
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Oh, and pain meds don't work often, at least the usual asprin/paracetamol ones (I'm sure morphine would work just fine, I just doubt you'd get it for bruising), not on bruising anyway. It's like going from cold water to hot water suddenly, you find you can't take a temperature you *could* take if you went gradually. Now imagine the over the counter lowering the temperature of the water. The hot might be a little cooler, but so is the cold, so the jumps just the same, so still not pleasant.
that's what I found with bruising from martial arts anyway, and if nothing else explaining it that way might get a bit more sympathy (backrubs can do wonders for muscle bruising ;p)
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tiger balm is the official cure-all of my grandmother (and of most people from the Canton area of China at least. China's big. i can't vote for all of it). sprained wrist, bruise, scrape, mosquito bite, lopped off diget? go to the tiger balm. (heh, my ex-marine friend tells me that that's all the first aid they get there too. he still swears by it, so it can't just work for the asians...)
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I don't do meds. Ever. I'm quite stubborn about it.