It hurts to breathe....
Apr. 19th, 2017 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaSo I've been hacking away at the jungle densely overgrown plants in the yard. In he last 2 days, I've just about finished pruning the grapes, and decided there was a sickly looking, huge oleander that pretty well blocked any view that the future room my husband wants to construct at the back of the garage might have of the lake, that needed to leave. This thing stood a good 18 feet high and side to side was easily 15 feet if not more. It was leggy and branches were beginning to rot in some areas. Now it's a mangled twist of stumps on a deep root ball.
Most of the branches were easily clipped with a Fiskars 2' pruner; however, there were some that presented a challenge by their size. I remained determined.
It cost me.
Towards the end, I was pulling out the larger branches and got too cocky. There was one which I should have gotten the sawsall for. Instead, I persisted with my clippers, lost in a self justified attack of machismo. At one point I had one arm of the clipper handle wedged against my chest, with both hands pulling on the other. The branch went down, but I simultaneously felt a resounding pop in my anterior chest, followed by a sharp pain and point tenderness at the left side of my sternum where the 5th and 6th ribs connect. Coughing, and reaching for anything with my left hand make it crescendo. G-d forbid, I sneeze.
I'm pretty certain the 4th and 5th left rib heads are injured and likely, either out of correct place or broken.
The next couple of weeks is going to be fun - not(!).
Most of the branches were easily clipped with a Fiskars 2' pruner; however, there were some that presented a challenge by their size. I remained determined.
It cost me.
Towards the end, I was pulling out the larger branches and got too cocky. There was one which I should have gotten the sawsall for. Instead, I persisted with my clippers, lost in a self justified attack of machismo. At one point I had one arm of the clipper handle wedged against my chest, with both hands pulling on the other. The branch went down, but I simultaneously felt a resounding pop in my anterior chest, followed by a sharp pain and point tenderness at the left side of my sternum where the 5th and 6th ribs connect. Coughing, and reaching for anything with my left hand make it crescendo. G-d forbid, I sneeze.
I'm pretty certain the 4th and 5th left rib heads are injured and likely, either out of correct place or broken.
The next couple of weeks is going to be fun - not(!).
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Date: 2017-04-20 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-20 09:42 am (UTC)I'm sure it can't compare but I'm getting over a cold that had me coughing so hard at one point I strained the relevant muscles and any new cough, sneeze - or laugh - made my entire chest hurt. Fortunately I'm past that, but it was a reason I dipped into the Codeine Cache.
An ounce of prevention
Date: 2017-04-20 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-21 03:26 am (UTC)