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Guess who managed to get his first ringing-related injury?[*]
Yup, that's right. The score currently stands at St. Cross 1, Nomad 0.
When I first rang at St. Cross, I mentioned how the ropes were particularly long and, thus, tend to flail about. By now -- over a year later -- I usually fare pretty well with them. No surprise there. However, ringing up the #3 bell last night, the rope got away from me... and wrapped itself around my wrist! Whoops!
Still attached to a few hundred pounds of bell, the rope went back up... delivering a nasty jerk[**] as it went. End result: One sprained left wrist.
The sprain is not too bad; I have endured worse. It does hurt considerably if I bend it in a certain direction, but it should recover fully in -- according to my doctor -- "a week or two." Thus, there seems to be no point in whining overmuch about my wrist. Interestingly enough, I can still ring both handbells and tower bells without a problem -- those motions do not involve bending my wrists -- though tying the rope after I am done ringing does hurt. Additionally, certain other activities are tricky. Those include writing, driving (due to the gear shift), and typing on a keyboard. I can do them all, as this entry would bear witness... but they are slow, cumbersome, and [mildly] painful.
As a result, I think that this may just be the perfect time to take an LJ holiday for a little while. Similarly, social e-mails may be getting put on the back burner for a time. Indeed, this sounds like an excellent time to catch up on my reading -- I do have a large stack of comic books to wade through, after all!
[*] Sorry -- no points awarded for guessing this one.
[**] Pun avoided as it is just too easy.
Yup, that's right. The score currently stands at St. Cross 1, Nomad 0.
When I first rang at St. Cross, I mentioned how the ropes were particularly long and, thus, tend to flail about. By now -- over a year later -- I usually fare pretty well with them. No surprise there. However, ringing up the #3 bell last night, the rope got away from me... and wrapped itself around my wrist! Whoops!
Still attached to a few hundred pounds of bell, the rope went back up... delivering a nasty jerk[**] as it went. End result: One sprained left wrist.
The sprain is not too bad; I have endured worse. It does hurt considerably if I bend it in a certain direction, but it should recover fully in -- according to my doctor -- "a week or two." Thus, there seems to be no point in whining overmuch about my wrist. Interestingly enough, I can still ring both handbells and tower bells without a problem -- those motions do not involve bending my wrists -- though tying the rope after I am done ringing does hurt. Additionally, certain other activities are tricky. Those include writing, driving (due to the gear shift), and typing on a keyboard. I can do them all, as this entry would bear witness... but they are slow, cumbersome, and [mildly] painful.
As a result, I think that this may just be the perfect time to take an LJ holiday for a little while. Similarly, social e-mails may be getting put on the back burner for a time. Indeed, this sounds like an excellent time to catch up on my reading -- I do have a large stack of comic books to wade through, after all!
[*] Sorry -- no points awarded for guessing this one.
[**] Pun avoided as it is just too easy.
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