My shoulder is killing me.
I saw the writing on the wall a few years ago. The clear cut sign that I was getting old. You know what that was? Here it is: When you can’t do a physical acitivity anymore without taking the time to properly stretch. The results of not stretching being about 3 days of soreness. Wow. I remember the days when I could jump up and do just about any activity on a whim and not worry about the consequences the next day. I miss those days. Getting old sucks.
So a couple of weeks ago I “tweaked” my shoulder making a throw while playing softball. It didn’t seem like much at the time since I always seemed to have a sore arm after every game. Usually after two days, that was the end of it. No more pain. But here we are almost exactly two weeks from when I first hurt it and it is still hurting me. So much so that sleeping has become a problem when I roll over on it. So I am looking to make a doctor’s appointment today and get it checked out.
Now, I’m a fairly active guy. I run. I play basketball. I play softball. I bike. I think that might add up to doing more than your average 31-year-old. I do those things because I enjoy them. Any benefits, like staying in shape, are just bonus for me. So needless to say, if the shoulder is bad enough that I have to cut out a couple of those activities, I’m going to be miserable. Especially since I already paid the fee for softball and we were only two games into the season. Getting old really sucks.
We’ll see what the doc says. Hopefully I just need to rest it. By the way, I have friends that have told me to ice it down and to apply some heat to it. Or vice versa. Something like that. Well, that sounded like a lot of work. So I did the next best thing. Icy Hot. Makes sense, right?
-Dave Q.
