this is apparently a week of ow.

[keryx]

I thought I was done after ginormous dog allergies and my very first migraine (there should be greeting cards for that), but no. I fell in the street last night, twisting (or maybe actually straining) an ankle and gaining a giant knotty scrapey bump in my knee. Which, by the way, kinda looks like it still has bits of street in it. Um, ew.

Why am I embarrassed by injury, though? Do other people have this? Like, I went to lunch with a group of people knowing fully that it hurts to go up or even down stairs, and yet I did not insist we take the elevator. And generally, when I hurt myself, my first thought (after ow) is about who I think will be mad at me.

This seems pretty freaky to me.

Comments

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

Golly!! That is a little freaky. I'm pretty sure my initial reaction is just as freaky in another direction, namely the "OW! Oh good, proof I'm alive and doing things, this is a sign of accomplishment."

We are both crazy. :)

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I think your perspective is VERY sane!

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

ew! maybe it's because you tend to have freakish injuries involving hurricanes and dfos?

[keryx.livejournal.com]

dfos?

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

heh. i watch too much csi. dfo = done fall over, as in what drunk people do.

not to imply that you are a drunk.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

oh, my. does the csi feature that concept that often? i guess it's the vegas setting...

in other slightly related news, the words "a drunk" bother me. does it bother you? people tend to use it to disparage alcoholics - who, you know, have a problem that the culture makes a lot of fun of. and then when you go and use it perfectly innocently to describe a person who is drunk, i'm all "eep!" - damned stupid offensive people, screwing up perfectly fine words for the rest of us.

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't use it to describe an alcoholic, but i would use it to describe a drunken frat boy, or a drunken me. so i guess i would use it in the immediate sense, not in the over-arching description of a person sense.