oops, i did it again
well, i've managed to injure myself in another strange manner. more on that later. i mowed the lawn Saturday morning, then we went off to watch another brutal loss by the Boilermakers. ugh, nasty. we resumed activities Sunday afternoon. Monday is trash day, so it was time to load up the trash pile again to get as much junk out as possible. this time, from the old shed. the timing didn't work out to tear it down this weekend, but it was probably better as it took several hours just to get it cleaned out. there was more junk in there than expected. we found lots of old lumber (mostly junk), many of the original window screens and storm windows (in generally poor condition, but neat to find), lots of sheets of glass, a smoker (for smoking meat, not a guy smoking a cigarette), 3 partial shovels, 3 knives, pet medication, boxes of clothes, an exercise bike, a box of tile, many shingles, and a partridge in a pear tree. we piled as much as would fit into our trash cans and some boxes and are crossing our fingers that the trashman took it all. after last week, we decided they wouldn't take a random pile of wood ... so we cleaned up the pile for future elimination (burning) elsewhere. Chrissy cleaned up a ton of it (removing nails, screws) so our friendly wood burners don't get left with a pile of rusty old nails. i also did a really quick re-cut of the lawn -- still trying to catch up from being too long. oh, and we met our neighbor across the street, Tony. he saw us out working and stopped in to say hi. a very nice guy, pretty close to our age. he and his wife Alison have 2 little kids and are quite the remodelers also. it's comforting to know that we at least have 1 really good neighbor. we are looking forward to getting to know them and our other neighbors.we took a dinner/Colts game break and headed to Menards because we saw they had some good sales. we got a nice 12 gal/5 hp shop vac (on sale and didn't know it til we bought it, nice surprise), a rake, a shovel, some tulips, and a couple other small items. some good deals which is always nice. now we move to the injury report. background story: about 2 weeks ago i went to lay down on the floor and felt a pop and some pain in my ribcage. it hurt for a little bit and was sore off and on for a week or so, but not too bad. back to Sunday. i was putting the casters on the bottom of the shop vac and they were snapping in really really hard. i was pushing, "hammering" with my palm ... nothing. finally a few were going and we were down to the last one. i really was putting some oomph into it ... when i felt the right side of my chest just kind of give way. pain. lots of pain. and then more pain. i think i dislocated a rib or something. i somehow got the last caster in (i don't remember doing it) ... then we spent another hour (until about 9) or so pulling staples/tack strips from an upstairs bedroom (#3). the pain was better except for anything that required using the muscles of the chest (most anything). i did a little web-diagnosing and decided that at the moment a Dr. visit wasn't all the useful if its a rib injury (even a fracture) ... they can't do much but give you drugs to help you through the healing process. i'll see how it goes ... if it doesn't start toning down i'll have to visit the Doc. then i had about 2 hours (which turned into 4 hours) of "home work" to do ... yippee.
monday morning, the pain was pretty bad at first. moving anything hurt. i must have slept on it funny. i took regular Advil doses and things got better most of the day. i'm still pretty
sore and coughing isn't fun ... but i think i'm on the road to recovery. we decided that pulling staples/tack strips wouldn't be that good for me today, so instead we went to the library and grabbed a ton of remodeling and landscaping books -- research time.i've posted quite a few more pictures (nasty yard, nasty shed) on Flickr. oh, and here's a shot of all the carpet/pad we took out. that's all for now. i think i'll thumb through some books and get a good night's sleep.
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 10:41 PM
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take care of those ribs. remember God can make a woman out of one of those suckers...
I know this is way after the fact but - yeah, it does sound like you just dislocated the rib. I didn't even know such a thing was possible until I did it with some similar hammering. A good chiropractor can put it back into place for you the next time it happens.
I think your documentation of your house project is really cool! My home's been in need of some TLC and I've considered blogging it, too. Seeing your effort is some really good motivation!
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