nagging injuries

wow and i felt bad about my thumb geez i guess you had something much worse then i did mine is just a little discomfort which is nothing that i can't deal with its just annoying at times. the back is weird i mean if i would sit for long periods of time i would get a little stiff, but i would think that is normal so i try not to sit at the computer for too long at a time. I try not to overdo it with the shoveling, but sometimes it is just a little too much bending even though its not a big area to shovel here at least almost all of that is gone till next year.

Well it didn't help that the way I found out I had dislocated it before was by falling out of bed and landing on it! It's kinda of a funny story looking back. I had finally gotten a real bed after getting rid of my futon bed and the very first night, the fire alarm which was wired to the whole house that I rented an apt in went off. I had lived there for 3 years or so and it had never gone off before. It was about 2am and it scared the crap out of me, without thinking I rolled over and my feet should have hit the ground if I'd been in the old futon but nope didn't work that way with the new bed! I lost my balance and fell smack down on my left shoulder. So now I get to my feet, realzing that I am really hurt with alarms going off and cats running wildly. I had 2 cats at the time and they had never heard the alarm either. It was louder than loud. Luckily for me, by the time I got my bathrobe on, the firemen had arrived. One of my neighbors above me has started a small kitchen grease fire so it was quickly out and then they gave me all the attention! Went to the hospital and they took excellent care of me. They did x-rays after getting my shoulder back in place and that's how I found out that my 5 yr old fall had done far more damage than my parents thought. I have a very high pain tolerance and that can work against me at times. I love to swim and do that regularly and that really strengthens it so that there are very few issues with it unless I am very foolish and do something stupid. Hasn't bothered me much in years now my lower back is another story. I go thru bouts of pain with it at least a few times a year but I have never quite figured out what sets it off so harder to avoid. I sure know not to land on my shoulder again! Be well.

as far as i know i never sucked on my thumb unless i bashed it into something. thanks for all the great advice. i will definitely try some of that out. yeah it does stiffing up on me if i sit too long at the computer as far as the thumb goes i think i might have rolled over on it while i was sleeping the only thing i can come up with since it didn't hurt before i went to sleep.

yeah you may be right about that it may just be a part of getting older and may just be some everyday aches and pains, but its not like its something that everyone hasn't had to deal with.