Decompression sickness.
I have been under a lot of stress for a loooong time.
In the last three days things have happened that have removed a great deal of the stress from my life. Well, at least made the stress many orders of magnitude easier to deal with.
Tonight I have a splitting headache and my legs feel like shit from the knees down, from all the snowblowing I have done (five times in two days) and the cabinetry I helped my friend hang on saturday. I put it all down to the bends, the concept of coming up oput of pressure so quickly that the rapture of the deep has taken hold. I need a few days in a decompression chamber to get back right again, or at least a decent night’s sleep. I hope to get that tonight.
The soreness and pain is aggrivating, but as Dad always said, it reminds you you’re alive and above ground. A very good friend of mine just said to me “A more gentle reminder would be nice”
True.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I no longer own a snow shovel. I once got those same pains. No longer. Even with snow on Christmas here in South Texas, I just watched it melt on its own.
Get a good hot soak in the tub. I can’t guarantee you’ll hurt less, but it will be soothing for a while.
I love that…. reminds you you’re alive and above ground. I’m gonna use that.
Og, next time you see your Doc, be sure to mention this. Circulatory problems (perhaps gout?) in the lower legs can be a real problem, particularly with diabetes.
Rich
I once had a stress related muscle cramp. The doc doing some tests had interesting view: He was in WWII, saw people required to do dangerous things (sometimes you had to ask people to do dangrous things, and it was usually the same people who you always went to because they could do the job). They did not crack under pressure – they would go back to base and have something like the wrong size clothes issued to them and break down right at the supply window. Stress seems to attack your body after the stressfull situation is gone. The accountant has a heart attack, not on April 14th in his office, but on May 2nd while on the beach. I take a walk in the local nature reserve almost daily, be suprised how many things I think over in my mind – or talking to myself – in 40 minutes. Anyway it is apparently not unusual to have the worse effects of stress shortly after the pressure is lifted.
Actually, I do have gout, and use allopurinol to help alleviate it, and a lot of my trouble comes of the extra weight I carry, and it’s impact on my feet. Still, the exercise does me good.
GOUT?!?!?!?!
You, me, and Kim du Toit.
Yet ANOTHER peril of gun ownership.
(This leap to conclusion brought to you by the Sarah Brady school of association)