Monday, August 18, 2008

Holy crap, this hurts!

Good news, bad news...

Good news: I do believe the swelling is going down on my shoulder.

Bad news: now, the pain from the shoulder fracture has a more direct route to all those angry nerves.

I was sound asleep, and shooting pain from both the front and back of the shoulder woke me up. I have just slathered the offending shoulder (which is making crunching noises, btw) in Icy Hot goop. So far, no effect. I have a feeling I'll be up quite a while watching obscure sports on cable... (Seriously - there's an Olympic trampoline competition? Oh, c'mon!)

In my next life, I want a poolboy* named Raoul to be available to apply Icy Hot to all my car accident injuries. I tend to forget I have this gunk on my hands and then do moronic things like rub my eyes. (Yeah, ouch.) So, if anyone wants to apply for the role of Raoul, massaging poolboy, be sure to drop me a line...


*Whatever you do, don't look up "poolboy" on Google images. Unless you're looking for gay porn. Which is fine, if you're into gay porn. I just wanted a photo of some dude cleaning a pool. Not really a fan of gay porn. Although I once saw some, courtesy of Netflix. I asked for "Better Off Dead" with John Cusack, and they sent me "Better Gay Sex" instead. Go figure.

4 comments:

Chuck said...

You might try what I use for my back and shoulders; it's called Stopain and it comes in a spray form (check out shop.stopain.com for more details.) They also sell it in a roll-on and cream. Spray is my favorite, though. It should be available at your local drugstore (mine is CVS) but you can also order it online. Hope you feel better soon.

Sasquatch said...

This was so hard to find?

Merujo said...

No fair - you looked up "pool cleaner" and I looked up "poolboy"!! ;)

J.M. Tewkesbury said...

I don't know. Some of those pool boys a la gay porn are pretty damn hot! That said, Sasquatch's pool cleaner isn't too bad either...