Oh my aching arm. Driving up North last weekend I began to realize that I could not hold the steering wheel with my left arm without feeling excruciating pain. Further into the weekend I could not close the car door with my left hand and I could not lift my arm to fix my hair and put deodorant on my left armpit. I managed through the weekend and made it home with calming moments of mediation and balancing my energy fields. But this kind of pain called for drastic measures. Dr. Bentley...HELP!
When it comes to joint and muscle pain Dr. Mark Bentley is my best friend. He did the initial diagnosis on Wednesday. "Your SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE is inflamed." My super what? It's one of the 4 muscles that makes up the rotator cuff. And it didn't just happen by trauma to the muscle. It happened over time.
Glorious news! Anything that happens over time means it will take more time to recover.
Understand this about me...I would rather prevent pain and illness than endure the process of recovery. I eat well, I exercise (well sometimes), I take vitamins and minerals. Basically, I am a health freak. Low sugar, low salt, low fat. That's me. Actually, I don't really like food. I eat to live and definitely do not live to eat. Fresh fruit and vegies, honey instead of sugar, water, lots and lots of water...and I love herbal teas sweetened with stevia.
Enough of that...check this out...
The day I was diagnosed was also the first day of the Washington County Fair. I was supposed to take it easy and ice my shoulder 3 or 4 times a day. Really? K...well that's not happening until Sunday.
The Fair was exhausting in a satisfying sort of way. My involvement includes parking with my Red Rock Rotary Club, Representing the Washington County School District Foundation as a board member and doing whatever Wendy, my leader, tells me to do as a member of the Washington County Fair Board. Hamilton and Asa helped me on Wednesday in the foundation booth. Ra joined me for parking on Thursday and he did it every night after that while I worked the fair. The fair parade was so much fun on Saturday morning then Pam Graf and I got the prizes for the baby contest all taken care of. The highlight of the fair is always the Demolition Derby but that's a-whole-nother blog post and my arm is hurting from all this typing.
I think it would be best to follow doctors orders and ice my supraspinatus.
