Mark H. Ryan's Pain Journal

Fell again, cleaning the house. THIS time I fell directly flat on my back. Complete with the back of the noggin meets stained wood. - Its almost 5am and I can't sleep. My legs are tinging, and my back is just... so unconformable. I lay one side, then the other... then back. It seems like falling has been a common occurrence for me. - I slept pretty crappy last night, for the hours that I DID sleep. We are going to the OKC Arts Festival later tonight. so that should be pretty cool. 50s and 60s music night.  Check out the calendar . I will be moving a little slower then normal but I think it will be worth it. Not my generation of music but I like all kinds. ... all the time I will whisper in the back of my head, "Don't fall... keep your balance, don't fall." More in this post a bit later. We decided not to go to that concert so we went home and I stayed up till 6am because my body wouldnt let me sleep.

4 days ago I forgot I had a pain blog, and wound up falling not once... BUT TWICE. I remember it quite vividly. The first happened when I was trying to help the kids clean up their toys in their room..The tips of my left hand felt as though there were needles going into just the tips, but not the thumb. my ankle felt like jelly and I dropped like a starving man trying to read that imaginary jelly sandwich. Of course we have hard wood floors all about. I skinned my forearm because I was able to stop myself in time. The second fall was the worst. I was picking up a half sized plastic trash can with some old tile my wife had dug up. I started talking to the front door and somehow woke up but remembering that I took a header over the dog kennel with a pretty big scrape on my leg. I woke up to both of my children crying and my wife calming them down. I remember I hit the floor on the back of my neck. I still have a head ache, literally. I am very forgetful (I was before too) and un...