Horseplay Fail 101.

Guess who twisted her wrist at work?

This chick.

To make a long story short I may have been playing around with a cart load of books and twisted it as I was running down the aisle. My wrist went flying around the corner with the cart, while my body remained in place and now I am nursing a pretty annoying twisted wrist but a wicked awesome wrist wrap.

Unfortunately I injured the right wrist (my writing hand) and it's been a pain to utilize my left hand more while my other one gets better. Everyone says I should go to the doctor, just to get it checked out, but hospitals make me nervous these days and I'm sure he/she will just put me on an advil like medicine, re-wrap my wrist, and tell me to take it easy. And, I'll be charged a crap-load of money.

Yesterday Sean attempted to soothe said wrist with his hot/cold treatment. He said he use to do this treatment when his wrist gave him trouble. He'd submerge it in ice water for 60 seconds, remove his hand and then run it under warm water for 30 seconds. He'd repeat this four or five times until his wrist felt better or until he couldn't bear the cold anymore. I wasn't really buying this technique and he most have seen how nervous I was to try this because he offered to do it with me so that i didn't feel alone.

We escaped to the cafe, way in the back where the sinks and dishes are (away from customers) and he filled the sink halfway with water, pouring two scoops of ice in to chill it. He asked me if I was ready to put my hand in and I told him not really (shit looked cold) so he told me to concentrate on my breathing, put my hand in only when I was ready because he would put his hand in a second later and he would count me down from 60 to 0 the whole way.

Before this, i asked him how the wrist healing method felt so i could prepare myself mentally for the pain. And he said ' it's like stepping in snow with no shoes on'. And he was right. The water was freezing and my wrist felt like it was going to fall off when it settled in to the ice. The water sort of brought the short, sharp, pains to the surface and I regretted agreeing to his method the moment i started. But we did the cold/hot water thing for 10 minutes. Dunking, icing, rinsing, repeat, only taking a small break when i told him i needed one. And he even counted down (every time), very slowly, and softly until we hit zero saying 'you've got this' when i grimaced.

By the end of the whole thing, I'm not sure my wrist felt any better but it was nice, that for 10 minutes he placed his hand in the water with me. That even though his wrist isn't all junked up like mine he didn't want me to endure it alone. And sure my wrist only feels a little bit better but those ten minutes were totally worth it.

I've been doing my own lazy form of icing, warming and massaging le sad wrist since then but it still hurts like crazy. And I'm still refusing to go to the doctor. But if it doesn't feel better I'll have to get it checked out. I can't go walking around in a wrist brace for the rest of my life. Even if it is fun telling people that i injured myself in more adventurous ways than the lame truth.

Beckett

~Oh and i bought some boots for my birthday. My wrist may feel like shit but my feet are well enough to wear this beauties.