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166 sats \ 11 replies \ @optimism 3h \ on: Stacker Saloon

I slipped and fell down the stairs yesterday... didn't break anything but my body is sore af. I guess I'm a real boomer now, lol.

133 sats \ 7 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

I guess I'm a real boomer now, lol.

~lol

Same thing happened to me a few years back, I popped a few vertebrae in my spine. Luckily that was it, and I healed up fine. Hope you get better soon!

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 3h

I popped a few vertebrae in my spine

You mean the disks ruptured? Can that heal? I was under the impression that they stay ruptured - like worn out shocks on a car.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

I’m not sure what the right word is in English, but it was like small cracks in two of my vertebrae.

I was under the impression that they stay ruptured

That I don’t know, the doctor said there was nothing they could do. Just had to wait a few months and then get an X-ray to see how it was. I had to wear this kind of exo-skeleton thing for a while to keep my back straight. After that, the doc said I was good as new… but I always wonder if they just say that so we don’t worry too much! ~lol

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3h

I’m not sure what the right word is in English

sounds like a fracture

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3h

That’s it. In Portuguese we call it a ‘fratura’. ~lol

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 25m

doctor said there was nothing they could do

centralized medical doctors usually don't know what to do or essentially say: "there's nothing we cud do that wudn't harm you;"

u probably have a small compression deformity (as seen in a sample image below); if u got an X-ray, then the smallest one u cud see wud give u issues for a few months; if u got a CT, small ones are visible, maybe a few weeks of recovery; if it were seen only by MRI, then it's essentially meaningless; there is a wide variation of what is small and what is large - sometimes decided by whether surgeons are getting greedy and want referrals...

i think everyone shud be curious how their own pictures look like and ask around for an additional look;

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 3h

i was wondering the same: compression fracture, or portion of a disk popped out of disk-space?

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3h

I think it's only muscles and tendons got their asses handed to them by gravity and concrete... so imma just lay low for a day or two. Also I am now looking as if I'm 25% smurf and these days where the overseer may ship you to some foreign prison based on racial profiling... you never know. Better safe than sorry.

151 sats \ 2 replies \ @zapsammy 3h

meanwhile, the baby has climbed the entire carpeted 14-step staircase to the second floor at 6 months... u shud be training ur spatial awareness and movement; i prefer tree and rock climbing for that, and u cud look at thai-chi or even pickle-ball;

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3h

I'm generally good on that - just missed the handrail when I slipped. For now, I'm just going to take the elevator when its been pouring instead of 6 flights of stairs. Behave like everyone else.

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 58m

I think TaiChi would be good for most people because the focus is on balance and lack of effort.

That makes people more confident because they know they can shift their balance as needed.