Aging 🫠
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I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.
Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.
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If I remember right there was an episode where they summoned him without heart, and he was a jerk.
that's really interesting. I listened to a podcast with one of the writers, or maybe the creator, I can't remember right now, and he talked about how sincere everybody was about creating the superhero who could actually change the cultural lack of concern about climate change.
and what's super cool is like statistically and culturally, it looks like the show worked.
like yeah everything is still fucked, but it would have been way worse a generation earlier if a bunch of awesome nerds didn't make Captain planet for generation x so they would become horrified over climate change.
[here it is] (https://share.google/H4LaAuoFDf6AS01Al)
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Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.
I won’t even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because I’ve learned this lesson.
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I won’t even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because I’ve learned this lesson.
Just do the dance in reverse
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Just do the dance in reverse
Unfortunately, it was a jump, so I think a reverse jump is just a jump, right?
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Last panel: Turns around too quickly to look after the kid, now has a painfully stiff neck for a week.
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It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you'll learn that's how you're supposed to respond to minor injuries.
Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
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Unfortunately, it was a jump, so I think a reverse jump is just a jump, right?
Per merriam-webster:
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
crawl creep drag poke hang (around or out) linger lag poke dawdle loiter stroll tarry shuffle saunter amble slow (down or up) lumber decelerate plod dillydally dally -
I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it's eminently possible for me to just 'step wrong' and have to wrap up an ankle.
I didn't know we had free fortune telling on Lemmy!
I'm so cooked
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Per merriam-webster:
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
crawl creep drag poke hang (around or out) linger lag poke dawdle loiter stroll tarry shuffle saunter amble slow (down or up) lumber decelerate plod dillydally dallyI’ve definitely been doing a lot of those things since it happened. Much shuffling, tarrying, and slowing down. I just started back on working out today, but nothing with my hip.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
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If I remember right there was an episode where they summoned him without heart, and he was a jerk.
And one without wind, he couldn't fly
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Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's not necessarily abuse to not react strongly to your child having a minor injury, but that could be a reason why. It could also be you learned to mask your pain to avoid further abuse.
I also have a stupid high pain tolerance (like making it through my vasectomy without anesthesia while only saying ouch under my breath, because my surgeon didn't believe I could still feel everything), but my mom knew about this from her masters degree and applied it to me.
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Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
it's always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to "walk it off".
our first child, she didn't have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
48yo alpinist who climbs 5.12+ here. I'm constantly injured. If you're not doing regular training for injury prevention it will come back to bite you in your 50's or 60's and you will not have the framework to navigate the injury without further fitness loss and a downward spiral of capabilities.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
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By far my favorite.
“EARTH!”
“FIRE!”
“WIND!”
“WATER!”
“MCDONALD’S!”
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I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it's eminently possible for me to just 'step wrong' and have to wrap up an ankle.
I have an ace bandage in my gear bag for the same reason. Though, the ace bandage is a bit unhelpful when I strain my hip on a high kick.
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I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
I'm still active in my 40's and I have a bunch of nagging sports injuries, some of which trace back 20+ years. Overuse injuries are common, too. Ask pretty much any serious runner or lifter or full time athlete, and they'll all have things that they just live with.
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The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
You got this bro.
