How do you feel today?

Post by **StevieG** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:38 pm

I'm a bit shaken. I just got home from squash, after witnessing a 17 year old playing a game. He slipped and rammed head first into the wall. It was horrible, he couldn't get up for a while. Fortunately there happened to be a doctor there. He seems ok, but was a bit shaky and sore. It was so bad to see.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:01 pm

Ouch. The unexpected dangers of squash...

--A

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:13 pm

i am bruised up. Now that the blood has had time to settle under my skin I look like I've been beaten down and broken up. Ugh.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:27 pm

Workman's comp! Workman's comp!

Post by **Kaydene** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:38 pm

lorin wrote:
Kaydene wrote:I bought a car! My car troubles are over! '03 Ford Focus 77k miles. I bought it for $6k, put $3k down and bought a 3 year warranty. Whew! Feels so great to have that weight taken off of my shoulders.
congrats! I think the warranty was a good idea. Did you get it from Ford or a private company?

Yeah, the warranty is going to cover me for the entire time I'm paying the loan, which is a relief. I went through the Kia dealership here in town. They had just gotten the focus in when I came in.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:59 pm

Congrats on the new ride, Kaydene!

Jenn --

Stevie G -- see, this is why nobody should ever try to stay in shape.

This is ridiculous. Today is the first day since I got back from my various vacations that I feel rested enough to do anything useful. It took me three days to recover from two weeks of fun. Three days!

Getting old sucks...

Post by **Savor Dam** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:12 pm

Popping in to request Watchers send healing energy Menolly's way. Over the weekend, she posted here about the high fever her son Beorn developed. Apparently he was well enough to return to school today, but she is now running a 104 degree fever.

I was chatting with her earlier today, but she just was not up to reading, much less posting to KW. When our omnipresent Menolly is too ill to be on the Watch, we know that she must be truly laid low. Please help!

Hu y'vareich et hacholim
Bless and heal those who are ill

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:15 pm

Thanks for letting us know, SD. To Menolly:

-- and get those guys of yours to bring you tons of chicken soup and ibuprofen!

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:17 pm

Sending good vibes your way, Menolly...

Stevie, I'm thinking that poor guy will be dealing with the effects of concussion for a long time, unless he's really, really lucky.

Post by **StevieG** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:29 am

Get well soon Menolly. Sending good thoughts you way.

MM, I doubt he'll be lucky, it was a full on hit right on top of his head. We'll see...

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:38 am

I feel like this. There's actually a lower section as well on the hip and the bruise now extends all the way to the side of my pubic bone. I made Sorus watch the video from the security camera.

Post by **Kaydene** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:48 am

omg. =( Ouch.

Post by **matrixman** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:06 am

Post by **Seareach** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:29 am

Far out! That is really bad!

Post by **Savor Dam** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:41 am

Jenn, you need to have this seen to under the CA workplace injury program. Back in 2008, I had a workplace accident while working at a site in Northridge and and was less harmed than that, but WaMu *insisted* that I go to an urgent care facility to have it checked out.

Of course, that meant a multi-hour wait in a clinic reception area where I was place at exposure risk for much worse than what I had already experienced, then have a facinating conversation with a doctor and assistant -- neither of whom seemed to understand English, nor whatever languages each other were speaking.

I left with three stitches that I promptly removed myself, then knocked down any potential infection with self-prescribed alcohol (bourbon) taken internally.

The so-called medical care was entirely paid for by workman's comp or whatever the proper name of the program is. I bought my own damn drinks...

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:54 am

I couldn't even take decent pics of my arm and leg since I can't get the camera angle right. And the lower hip bruise you can't see is the most painful. Sorus saw the bruises in person. I actually called rolando before I went in to work and told him, go in the office and watch the security feed before I get there so you can get it out of your system and gave him a rundown on what happened. He called me back almost immediately and was like, OH MY GOD, HOLY CRAP! Then I got to work, dragged him into the office and showed him the damage and he was like, OH MY GOD, WHAT THE F--K are you DOING here???? Then proceeded to take pictures of my wounds with his cell camera and make multiple dvd's of the incident. He also laughed himself silly. I must admit, seriously, the freeze frame of me mid air is highly amusing looking. Also the way Jacob reacted and I reacted is pretty funny too. I had fun with two coworkers today over it. Well all my coworkers, but two that were not there last night, I convinced one that I got hit by a car and the other that I had tackled a shoplifter and got my ass kicked. Tomorrow, if Jason K hasn't already been shown the feed I am going to try to convince him I was the victim of mistaken identity and police brutality. Also, if Bill the UPS driver is working tomorrow I'm gonna convince him that Jacob asked me to listen to an engine noise then proceeded to let his foot slip off the brake and pinned me between a cement wall and his SUV. Should be fun. Also I do need to get some pictures of my wounds that aren't showing too much but I got home late from moving Navepar so I didn't call Lucimay. I need someone else to take pics since I can't do it so well myself.

Post by **danlo** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:10 am

Dam Jenn and carumba

! That had to hurt. Many healing vibes!!!

Reminds me of the time I was working at ALCO dept. stores when a teenage noob tossed me an eight foot steel truck loading ramp, when I wasn't looking-two cracked ribs and only 2 and 1/2 months of worker's comp. Took me over a year of serious pain and not breathing right at night to get over it-they wanted to let me go after that because someone had to be monitoring my every move around heavy objects and they couldn't afford that--so I, in vanity, quit thinking being fired as a disgrace-tho I later learned that my 6 month unemployment benefits would have been close to what worker's comp had been paying me. Ah well...

Menolly get better as well!

Post by **Rigel** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:31 am

Wow, Jenn, sorry to hear about that. Sounds like there's a whole lot of bad mojo going around lately... good thoughts, good thoughts for everyone!

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:08 pm

Healing vibes to Jenn and Menolly.
Damn...104 temperatures? My ex had that high of fever and they said to bring her to the emergency room. We did so and the filled her with two bags of liquid, and she started to do a bit better, but that's pretty damn high.

Post by **Spiral Jacobs** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:25 pm

I feel fine because I just bought a new guitar, a genuine Fender American Standard Stratocaster. Yay!

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