Yo.
It's been a while. Quite a while. :P But I'm finally free. I handed in my Masters' thesis for examination three days ago and my defense is scheduled for next week. The weeks and months of agonizing work reading journal articles and writing 300 pages and editing down to 200 pages, it's all essentially over. These last few days have been so great. Being able to think and not have this giant looming threat of failure hanging over me. The funniest thing though is how God really humbled me through this.
See, I reaaaaaally didn't want to sit down and write it. I'd do almost anything else to avoid doing it and it got to the point where I was actually running out of time. (For some reason I had been scheduling to finish ahead of the actual due date, so there was flexibility, but yaaaa.) So here I am like 3 days before it's due, knowing exactly how much I need to do and just being like "naaaaah, let's sleep in a bit more. ... 7:21. fineeeeee. I guess I have to wake up and start." And so I went to get up and get ready for the day and as I was standing in the bathroom I started feeling faint. So I sat down on the bathtub.
...
*opens eyes* "what's this white thing? where am I?" *sits up* I had fainted and was lying on the ground with my head facing the toilet. =O So, I go to lie in my bed. 7:23. This had only happened once before (exactly the same way) way back in 3rd or 4th year, so I know it's nothing serious. Lying down I realize my knee hurts. I can't extend my left leg and walking on it is painful. Sooooooo I hop over to my laptop to start working. I figure, "well, if it stops hurting we're all good. It had better not be broken. I have a defense in a couple weeks and work in a few days." A couple hours later and it still hurts. So I'm like "fine. I guess I'll go to the hospital just to be sure. Like, if I don't get this moving, my knee will like solidify over and I'll never get to use it again. Either I go now or after I hand in this thesis. And by then it could be too late." My roommate isn't here. My friend who lives the closest is out of town for another day. It's not an emergency.
So I check the bus schedule. The bus a couple blocks down actually goes right to the hospital. I just need to leave enough time to hop down the hall to the elevator, and slowly hop without slipping and dying to the bus stop, take the bus, then hop to the hospital. Got all my stuff. Let's go.
Hopping that entire hallway was exhausting. So when I get downstairs I call a cab. :P He was super nice. The doctors were super nice. Was there for like 2? 3 hours? Read a book. They said it was probably just a muscle thing and I'd be fine in a day or too, Cool. So I got a pair of crutches and walked to the bus. :P It only really hurt when it was extended or had weight on it.
Back at home time to work. :P
Oh, did I mention my glasses had fallen apart that week too? So, here I am with like a meter of clear vision and the inability to walk, essentially forced to tackle my thesis, praying that my leg heals quickly so I can work this coming week. New Years comes and I'm just at home working on my thesis all night. So I take a break before midnight. It'd been the first time in 7 years that I hadn't been at a Christian conference singing and praying in the year. I do my annual reflection and prayer and crying session, reminding myself of His faithfulness and goodness and the hope I have in Him, before getting back to work.
So, working as normal, drinking lots of water, I take leg stretching breaks every time after I go the washroom. I'm regaining some extension, but it still hurts and I can't really walk properly, So I just take a break and pray kneeling on my bed to help stretch it further. And afterward, with really no sudden thing, it feels back to normal. Praise God. :P And better than that, I think my relationship with God was much better too. It's funny, but it all worked out (aside from my parents being overly concerned about me, and me not bathing for a couple days. ;P) and I'm thankful that God does things like this in my life. I'm praying the defense goes well and that this year is all for His glory and my joy in Him.
D.Fa
Showing posts with label Injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Injury. Show all posts
5.1.18
20.7.15
Pain, Patience, and Parables. Part 1/2
Yo
How goes it? As my luck would have it, I am now injured again. It seems that this summer I just attract injury like a magnet attracts iron shavings. The second I move past one injury, the next is waiting for me. xP
Long story short: bruised rib, badly sprained ankle, re-bruised rib, twice re-sprained ankle, and to top off the summer: stitches and a broken ulna.
In some ways, it's a really dumb story. haha. I had biked to softball in light rain and so a friend drove me home. To do so, I removed the quick release front tire. The following day my friend and I were going to go for a long bike ride just for fun. About 15 minutes into the bike ride I was lying on the ground bleeding.
It seems I hadn't tightened the front wheel very well when I put it back on and as I went to hop over a bump on the bike path, it popped off. The forks of the frame hit the ground, I flew over head first into the pavement (as I watched by friend bike behind me. xP // note to self / everyone: wear a helmet!) and presumably did a roll right, hitting my right shoulder and left elbow (as it came around). I got up (without my glasses), felt my forehead, saw blood drip, felt a bit faint, so I lay down off the bike path. My buddy calmly asked (well, maybe a little nervous. I couldn't see his face, but his voice sounded a little urgent) if he should call 911. He did and, knowing the area better than he did, I calmly answered all of the operator's questions whenever he repeated them aloud (y'know, that thing you do to both fully understand the question and buy an extra second to think about it? I don't think he was actually asking me). We were actually only about 5 blocks from a hospital. Some joggers came by and helped direct the ambulance to us. I asked my buddy to find my glasses while we waited.
The two in the ambulance were extremely nice, funny, and calm. Andrew and Amanda. So nice! They patched me up, gave me a neck brace, put me on that plastic board thing, got me into the ambulance, asked me a bunch of questions, took my vitals, got my bike, and drove me to the hospital. On the way I found out that Andrew knows all about my thesis supervisor and what I'm working on. haha. My supervisor has "god status" when it comes to aptamers, in his words (but pretty true), and his friend did her PhD in her lab. xP Small world!
Got right into the hospital and saw a doctor not too long after. Had a guy in training do most of the preliminary screening, 'irrigate' and numb my forehead, and most of my stitches after observing a few by the main doctor on duty. Based on my ability to move and that I didn't go unconscious and my general lack of pain in my neck they determined my neck was ok and I hadn't had a concussion (thank God!). I managed to convince him I should still get a neck xray done. They also xray'd my left elbow, which really hurt and I couldn't move too much.
A while later a guy in a blue jumpsuit (is how it seemed) came in, assessed my motion of my left elbow again, said I had a fractured ulna (one of the two forearm bones) at the head (where it connects to the elbow joint), but he'd need to consult his seniors because it was right on the edge of maybe being a lot worse and the xray's angles was inconclusive. Later he came back and said I'd need a CT scan. I got a CT scan (and tetanus shot) and later he came back and broke the news to me: the ulna was fractured in a few places and broken such that the two pieces were not aligned and would need to be corrected surgically with a metal plate (and maybe have the head replaced with a fake if it is too small to attach the plate to). He got me to sign off on the procedure (after telling me the pros and cons of the procedure) as well as potential blood transfusion. He made me a plaster cast and sent me on my way with a prescription for moderate pain killer medication.
A number of thoughts crossed my mind during this whole thing. I'll tell you more tomorrow (my hand is tired of typing. lolllllll).
Ttyl.
D.Fa
How goes it? As my luck would have it, I am now injured again. It seems that this summer I just attract injury like a magnet attracts iron shavings. The second I move past one injury, the next is waiting for me. xP
Long story short: bruised rib, badly sprained ankle, re-bruised rib, twice re-sprained ankle, and to top off the summer: stitches and a broken ulna.
In some ways, it's a really dumb story. haha. I had biked to softball in light rain and so a friend drove me home. To do so, I removed the quick release front tire. The following day my friend and I were going to go for a long bike ride just for fun. About 15 minutes into the bike ride I was lying on the ground bleeding.
It seems I hadn't tightened the front wheel very well when I put it back on and as I went to hop over a bump on the bike path, it popped off. The forks of the frame hit the ground, I flew over head first into the pavement (as I watched by friend bike behind me. xP // note to self / everyone: wear a helmet!) and presumably did a roll right, hitting my right shoulder and left elbow (as it came around). I got up (without my glasses), felt my forehead, saw blood drip, felt a bit faint, so I lay down off the bike path. My buddy calmly asked (well, maybe a little nervous. I couldn't see his face, but his voice sounded a little urgent) if he should call 911. He did and, knowing the area better than he did, I calmly answered all of the operator's questions whenever he repeated them aloud (y'know, that thing you do to both fully understand the question and buy an extra second to think about it? I don't think he was actually asking me). We were actually only about 5 blocks from a hospital. Some joggers came by and helped direct the ambulance to us. I asked my buddy to find my glasses while we waited.
The two in the ambulance were extremely nice, funny, and calm. Andrew and Amanda. So nice! They patched me up, gave me a neck brace, put me on that plastic board thing, got me into the ambulance, asked me a bunch of questions, took my vitals, got my bike, and drove me to the hospital. On the way I found out that Andrew knows all about my thesis supervisor and what I'm working on. haha. My supervisor has "god status" when it comes to aptamers, in his words (but pretty true), and his friend did her PhD in her lab. xP Small world!
Got right into the hospital and saw a doctor not too long after. Had a guy in training do most of the preliminary screening, 'irrigate' and numb my forehead, and most of my stitches after observing a few by the main doctor on duty. Based on my ability to move and that I didn't go unconscious and my general lack of pain in my neck they determined my neck was ok and I hadn't had a concussion (thank God!). I managed to convince him I should still get a neck xray done. They also xray'd my left elbow, which really hurt and I couldn't move too much.
A while later a guy in a blue jumpsuit (is how it seemed) came in, assessed my motion of my left elbow again, said I had a fractured ulna (one of the two forearm bones) at the head (where it connects to the elbow joint), but he'd need to consult his seniors because it was right on the edge of maybe being a lot worse and the xray's angles was inconclusive. Later he came back and said I'd need a CT scan. I got a CT scan (and tetanus shot) and later he came back and broke the news to me: the ulna was fractured in a few places and broken such that the two pieces were not aligned and would need to be corrected surgically with a metal plate (and maybe have the head replaced with a fake if it is too small to attach the plate to). He got me to sign off on the procedure (after telling me the pros and cons of the procedure) as well as potential blood transfusion. He made me a plaster cast and sent me on my way with a prescription for moderate pain killer medication.
A number of thoughts crossed my mind during this whole thing. I'll tell you more tomorrow (my hand is tired of typing. lolllllll).
Ttyl.
D.Fa
5.12.10
BLOCKUS ga Hoshii!!!
So, ya.
Today after church was the YA christmas party thing. We ate some food. Then the main event happened: the 5$ gift exchange. It got so intense.
There were like 20 people involved in this exchange. but there were only so many covetted gifts. These included : Blockus (so fun. its a board game), a free starbucks drink (any size, any drink), two pillows. That is all. xP. And Everyone wanted Blockus so badly. so badly! also everyone had something else that they wanted individually (I wanted the chopsticks!!!!) On top of this fact there is also the fact that a board game is played with more than one person and that a number of people lived in the same house. So on every round (one person would choose to either open a new gift or steal a previously opened gift) once blockus was stolen the intense trading game began (you could only steal the item once per round and no steal backs). There were alliances back and forth. But you could only have so many people helping you because only people who had chosen a gift so far could steal once stolen from. So we had to wait until our other roomate had started. We would swipe it, they would trade then swipe it, we would trade then swipe it like 20 steals in a turn.... Then because we couldn't lose to them we got like another few guys on our alliance although one was never really helping us, one was only interested in helping his girlfriend and another guy just wanted the pillows. In the end the game went to KP who is the girlfriend of my housemate and also lives with the girls, so its like everyone won. xPPPP All that time and stealing for nothing... xP I got my chopsticks, he got his pillows, she got the starbucks. Everyone (pretty much) got what they wanted. I can't believe we forgot to ask AL to steal for us. xP (LOL.... I just remembered what I told her about why we couldn't trust her, which is not why we didn't. xP) CW was last so he couldn't help.
I understand if you havn't been following that complex explaination... xP
I then made mashed potatoes.
We ate a lot of food.
We saw the Ottawa Christian Chorale's "Unending Song". They were pretty good.
I now have a box spring under my 3 mattresses... xP So high. I HAVE TO jump to get into bed.. xP
My thumb is still bugging me, but not as much...
My moustache is amazing. xPPPP
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Today after church was the YA christmas party thing. We ate some food. Then the main event happened: the 5$ gift exchange. It got so intense.
There were like 20 people involved in this exchange. but there were only so many covetted gifts. These included : Blockus (so fun. its a board game), a free starbucks drink (any size, any drink), two pillows. That is all. xP. And Everyone wanted Blockus so badly. so badly! also everyone had something else that they wanted individually (I wanted the chopsticks!!!!) On top of this fact there is also the fact that a board game is played with more than one person and that a number of people lived in the same house. So on every round (one person would choose to either open a new gift or steal a previously opened gift) once blockus was stolen the intense trading game began (you could only steal the item once per round and no steal backs). There were alliances back and forth. But you could only have so many people helping you because only people who had chosen a gift so far could steal once stolen from. So we had to wait until our other roomate had started. We would swipe it, they would trade then swipe it, we would trade then swipe it like 20 steals in a turn.... Then because we couldn't lose to them we got like another few guys on our alliance although one was never really helping us, one was only interested in helping his girlfriend and another guy just wanted the pillows. In the end the game went to KP who is the girlfriend of my housemate and also lives with the girls, so its like everyone won. xPPPP All that time and stealing for nothing... xP I got my chopsticks, he got his pillows, she got the starbucks. Everyone (pretty much) got what they wanted. I can't believe we forgot to ask AL to steal for us. xP (LOL.... I just remembered what I told her about why we couldn't trust her, which is not why we didn't. xP) CW was last so he couldn't help.
I understand if you havn't been following that complex explaination... xP
I then made mashed potatoes.
We ate a lot of food.
We saw the Ottawa Christian Chorale's "Unending Song". They were pretty good.
I now have a box spring under my 3 mattresses... xP So high. I HAVE TO jump to get into bed.. xP
My thumb is still bugging me, but not as much...
My moustache is amazing. xPPPP
Ttyl.
D.Fa
2.8.10
Garlic and Chicken Stock
Hey guys!
...
That felt odd... >.> Maybe because I don't think of you as being more then maybe 2.5 people... or perhaps because I don't often use exclamation unless in combination with question and a few dots as such "..?!?!?!??!" ..?
Anyways. There are only a couple of things I have to say today. They all relate to work I think. O except one. I'll start with that one.
One Piece Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . I just finished watching One Piece Movie 10 Strong World. It was pretty amazing. Possibly because the quality of the video was above the norm for the videos I watch on my computer. Also Chopper is sooo ridiculously cute sometimes... and also One Piece is just amazing btw. >.>
So, ya. I woke up later then I wanted to and only had a couple hours before work... on civic holiday... >.> 12-6:30 although I left at like 6:05. By like 4 there was almost nothing to do in Produce so I helped AS in Bakery. I got a cut on my arm, I saw JK and KP, and I learned that AS goes to church. xP
Ya. after work there was a "party in the park" planned at General Burns from 6-10 like a staff BBQ with baseball and stuff. Yay for thunderstorm warnings..? No. We only played like 3 innings of softball... and the bottom half of my teams line up was kinda not great... When I left work HB and F(S?) and SS were waiting for AS. I was thinking about skipping the party to go hang out with them, but I kinda told my boss and a number of other people I was going... so ... I went... When I got there I was surprised to see TM there. Apparently his mom works at independent... but ya. This fact made me notice something I often notice...
When I am surrounded by people I hardly know I will cling to/follow someone I know better. This time it was TM, but I know I've done it to CW, CB, LW, JF, AL, RL, Pastor DB, JS, JW, BL, and probably a bunch of other times I can't think of right now...
Ya. That's it for now, I think.
D.Fa
"Hey AL. I don't know how many songs I need to choose... so... ya.... I don't have a girlfrined."
...
That felt odd... >.> Maybe because I don't think of you as being more then maybe 2.5 people... or perhaps because I don't often use exclamation unless in combination with question and a few dots as such "..?!?!?!??!" ..?
Anyways. There are only a couple of things I have to say today. They all relate to work I think. O except one. I'll start with that one.
One Piece Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . I just finished watching One Piece Movie 10 Strong World. It was pretty amazing. Possibly because the quality of the video was above the norm for the videos I watch on my computer. Also Chopper is sooo ridiculously cute sometimes... and also One Piece is just amazing btw. >.>
So, ya. I woke up later then I wanted to and only had a couple hours before work... on civic holiday... >.> 12-6:30 although I left at like 6:05. By like 4 there was almost nothing to do in Produce so I helped AS in Bakery. I got a cut on my arm, I saw JK and KP, and I learned that AS goes to church. xP
Ya. after work there was a "party in the park" planned at General Burns from 6-10 like a staff BBQ with baseball and stuff. Yay for thunderstorm warnings..? No. We only played like 3 innings of softball... and the bottom half of my teams line up was kinda not great... When I left work HB and F(S?) and SS were waiting for AS. I was thinking about skipping the party to go hang out with them, but I kinda told my boss and a number of other people I was going... so ... I went... When I got there I was surprised to see TM there. Apparently his mom works at independent... but ya. This fact made me notice something I often notice...
When I am surrounded by people I hardly know I will cling to/follow someone I know better. This time it was TM, but I know I've done it to CW, CB, LW, JF, AL, RL, Pastor DB, JS, JW, BL, and probably a bunch of other times I can't think of right now...
Ya. That's it for now, I think.
D.Fa
"Hey AL. I don't know how many songs I need to choose... so... ya.... I don't have a girlfrined."
5.6.10
Predestined Fate
"Hey AL, I don't know if you know what happened, but I'm sorry for not saying anything before leaving. I don't have a girlfriend, but don't worry, I'll have a cool scar soon."
So, ya. today was cool.
In class we made sushi and got our final marks.
Then my dad and I went to look at laptops and netbooks.
Then I procrastinated and started filling out an OSAP application.
Then I went to worship practice. I wasn't scheduled this week, I was filling in for JL. I really like singing worship songs with everyone.
So, ya. Practice ended early, so me and RL explored the church. The attic appears to be empty, but the ladder wasn't tall enough.
Then we played Settler's of Catan for a bit, until YF started. Then we talked about westfest and prayed. Then we divided up the tasks for stuff we could do today to prepare.
I volunteered to help lift heavy things.
So, we were going to move the pingpong tables from upstairs to the gym downstairs. On that funny, like, 6 step set of stairs I was helping HO move one of the pingpong tables, when like the bottom kinda fell off and one side kinda hit my eyebrow.
I felt something dripping from my eyebrow, so I put my hand on it. *shiver* It was blood. So, I put the table down. By now I felt like I do when I start fainting... When this happens, lying down always keeps me conscious, so I lied down with my feet up. This helped. Also, I kept my hand on the "wound" like they do in anime to keep bleeding minimal. I mean it was dripping *shiver* and it dripped on my glasses once.
H(?) and JS were attempting to give me first aid, ie with a pretty useless first aid kit and very little experience doing it. They were icing my eyebrow with a lime crush freezie. lol.
Pastor DB called my parents and my dad was on the way.
I hadn't had anything to eat since "lunch" at like 11:30, when we made sushi.
Once before I had gone for a flu shot in the morning without having breakfast. I kinda started fainting I think. They were like giving me juice to get my blood sugar up or something. So, after I told JS and H(?) that I hadn't had lunch, they went to the kitchen to get me some food. JS found "crackers" which were actually cookies. I then remembered that stuff and asked if there was any juice.
I ended up being apparently force fed freezies by JS. He was like stuffing them in my mouth. lol.
The alcohol wipes weren't that bad. I didn't really feel that much from my eyebrow to begin with...
So, ya. Paster DB was making jokes about scars.
So, ya. Thanks JS and H(?) for taking care of me. You guys are awesome! I hope I'm that cool when I'm a YA.
When I got home I ate spaghetti and watched Reborn.
My bio essay is due on Monday... but I have more time tommorow then I normally would, so it should be possible to finish it.
So, ya.
D.Fa
Okay, during the summer I watched this anime "Moyashimon" because of a recomendation by W(?) who was also taking reach ahead gr. 12 advanced functions. The anime is about, like, this guy who can see microbes and goes to Tokyo Agricultural University or something. At the end of every real episode is a small "Microbe Theatre" which is a short episode with oryzae as the main character. It's a really cool show!!! Enjoy Episode 1 of Microbe Theatre! It's a really cool show!!!
So, ya. today was cool.
In class we made sushi and got our final marks.
Then my dad and I went to look at laptops and netbooks.
Then I procrastinated and started filling out an OSAP application.
Then I went to worship practice. I wasn't scheduled this week, I was filling in for JL. I really like singing worship songs with everyone.
So, ya. Practice ended early, so me and RL explored the church. The attic appears to be empty, but the ladder wasn't tall enough.
Then we played Settler's of Catan for a bit, until YF started. Then we talked about westfest and prayed. Then we divided up the tasks for stuff we could do today to prepare.
I volunteered to help lift heavy things.
So, we were going to move the pingpong tables from upstairs to the gym downstairs. On that funny, like, 6 step set of stairs I was helping HO move one of the pingpong tables, when like the bottom kinda fell off and one side kinda hit my eyebrow.
I felt something dripping from my eyebrow, so I put my hand on it. *shiver* It was blood. So, I put the table down. By now I felt like I do when I start fainting... When this happens, lying down always keeps me conscious, so I lied down with my feet up. This helped. Also, I kept my hand on the "wound" like they do in anime to keep bleeding minimal. I mean it was dripping *shiver* and it dripped on my glasses once.
H(?) and JS were attempting to give me first aid, ie with a pretty useless first aid kit and very little experience doing it. They were icing my eyebrow with a lime crush freezie. lol.
Pastor DB called my parents and my dad was on the way.
I hadn't had anything to eat since "lunch" at like 11:30, when we made sushi.
Once before I had gone for a flu shot in the morning without having breakfast. I kinda started fainting I think. They were like giving me juice to get my blood sugar up or something. So, after I told JS and H(?) that I hadn't had lunch, they went to the kitchen to get me some food. JS found "crackers" which were actually cookies. I then remembered that stuff and asked if there was any juice.
I ended up being apparently force fed freezies by JS. He was like stuffing them in my mouth. lol.
The alcohol wipes weren't that bad. I didn't really feel that much from my eyebrow to begin with...
So, ya. Paster DB was making jokes about scars.
So, ya. Thanks JS and H(?) for taking care of me. You guys are awesome! I hope I'm that cool when I'm a YA.
When I got home I ate spaghetti and watched Reborn.
My bio essay is due on Monday... but I have more time tommorow then I normally would, so it should be possible to finish it.
So, ya.
D.Fa
Okay, during the summer I watched this anime "Moyashimon" because of a recomendation by W(?) who was also taking reach ahead gr. 12 advanced functions. The anime is about, like, this guy who can see microbes and goes to Tokyo Agricultural University or something. At the end of every real episode is a small "Microbe Theatre" which is a short episode with oryzae as the main character. It's a really cool show!!! Enjoy Episode 1 of Microbe Theatre! It's a really cool show!!!
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