The Great Race is on! In the east, will we be packed and ready for the movers? In the west, will the contractor have the house ready for the movers? We hope so! We've started bringing out some of our stuff already. After Oct 15, will be in Forest Hills full-time, except for weekends to clean out the old place and turn over the keys on Nov 1.

And then there's this: I've been more lurker here than active participant for the last few months. I have endeavored to keep you, my friends, updated on how things are going, to explain why I don't do anything else here. This unpleasant but essential situation will continue until my life returns to normal, hopefully before year's end. Miss you all! But...

I'll be back!

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

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Noel wrote:

And then there's this: I've been more lurker here than active participant for the last few months. I have endeavored to keep you, my friends, updated on how things are going, to explain why I don't do anything else here. This unpleasant but essential situation will continue until my life returns to normal, hopefully before year's end. Miss you all! But...

I'll be back!

Yet still you find time to make sure everyone is wished a Happy Birthday.
Kudos, Salud, Bravo & other superlatives!

The gelatin is starting to cool & solidify and soon you'll be able to relax & eat it.

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

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I suppose it was inevitable. Weeks of heavy lifting, and moving appliances and furniture have taken their toll. I tore something in back of my upper left shoulder. It only doesn't hurt A LOT when I lay flat on my back, but I'm not much help from that position. I have only one arm to use the rest of the time.

Like I said once in another context, whenever I act how young I feel, I hurt something.

The move-out begins Oct 12. Dagnabbit!

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

Noel wrote:

Like I said once in another context, whenever I act how young I feel, I hurt something.

We're similar ages I imagine; you didn't get the extended warranty either, eh?
Best of luck amigo! Do you have any whipper-snappers who are helping?

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

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Badger wrote:

Noel wrote:

Like I said once in another context, whenever I act how young I feel, I hurt something.

We're similar ages I imagine; you didn't get the extended warranty either, eh?
Best of luck amigo! Do you have any whipper-snappers who are helping?

Yep, I forgot to get the extended warranty! All the teenagers dispersed around the time Henry entered the Navy. Nothing left here but us old, break-down prone codgers.

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

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After ten days of worsening symptoms, increasing pain, and more and more down-time providing less and less relief, Barb convinced me to go to the ER last night.

It was my description of the pain as like a bolt through the back of my shoulder that pointed the doctors to the problem, because they said that is exactly how this is described to feel. The consensus is I badly pulled/repetitively hyper-extended my left rhomboid muscle, which cramped into a knot, trapping some nerves with it. Think of a small, highly localized Charlie-horse that wouldn't go away. And, of course, I kept trying to pack, lift, and carry heavy boxes. Combine that with the hunched posture I have to assume to assist Corradina in her online charter home-school, and I was constantly making the muscle knot worse.

I got a special shot in the muscle, a dandy muscle-relaxer shot in my arm, and the med student on ER duty gave me an amazing deep-muscle massage to try to untie the knot. If I combine the prescription pain-reliever and muscle-relaxer with rest and proper posture, and give up packing, stacking, and moving heavy boxes and furniture for a while, I should eventually be free of a reoccurrence.

If symptoms don't reoccur in the next half-hour, that will be the first time, and a good sign.

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

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Syndicateofsurf wrote:

Have you tried alcohol?

Ha! Rubbing, drinking or both?

Could it have been the result of 12 oz curls? Moving will drive even the best of men to drink.

Heal kid, take care of yourself.

You do know though that the Emergency Departments are no longer refered to as the "ER." They are now (and who the hell thought of this), called the Emergency Department or "ED." My youngest son Scott is an "ED" doc (as he prefers to be called).................. I can't say it without chuckling so I just say "emergency room physician."

ed

Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

Noel,
I've had syndromes like that, but not lately thank God. Nerves and overexertion/overextension can do that to you. Worse is when it starts a chain-reaction cramp all up and down one side of the body. Try sauna or hot baths, and light liquor imbibing. It IS a muscle relaxer.

Squink Out!

Yeah Badge, the term "having the blues" may well be: 1: taking on a new meaning, and 2. a brighter outlook in general.

Like DuPont once used as a slogan: "better living through chemistry."

Just an inquiring observation.

ed

Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?