about a month ago, i woke up one morning with a pinching pain in my armpit. in the few days that followed, it spread down my bicep to my inner/side-elbow, along my forearm, and eventually into my wrist and last three fingers. the pain was sometimes sharp and at other moments it was tingly. eventually i started to lose feeling in my fingers which worried me the most. after a few dr. appointments, it was decided that i was experiencing the symptoms of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome and was possibly having some spine trouble. i have yet to look over all of my x-ray results with the dr. but i feel alright. about a week after the onset of pain, i was running for the bus and slipped on some ice. not only did i miss the bus and had to be pulled up by a nice stranger, but i managed to injure my wrist further. this all kept me off the computer for a while as i’ve been wearing a wrist brace. for all you right-y’s, try typing emails and posts with your left hand index finger for 3 weeks! i’m happy to report that though i am still experiencing pain, my wrist is doing much better. so i’m back! i hope to be posting a little more regularly from now on.
toronto is a winter wonderland and i love it. i am not usually a winter person and most of the season i spend a lot of time dreaming of warm and far off lands, flip flops, sipping drinks on a patio, and running through sprinklers. but there is something about trekking through mountains of snow just to get to the end of the driveway that makes me smile. i guess when getting to the bus stop is an adventure in itself, everything else becomes a little more exciting.
unfortunately, some ridiculously mean people decided they would steal my shovel from right outside my front door and that took a little fun out of the whole thing. i don’t, by any means, enjoy shoveling the driveway [especially when it is covered in 2 feet of snow] but really, what is a person to do when they wake up one morning blocked in by snow and realise they have been robbed of their one and only survival tool? not fun. and of course mums blamed me because i was the one who left it outside the night before :(
either way, i’m trying to appreciate the unusual weather. if only i were 10 again and could benefit from the snow days! we are to expect about 10 more cm of snow in the next two days. i’m going to give myself another week and if my arm is feeling much better by then, i hope to hit the slopes and give snowboarding on my feet another attempt!
three good things:
+ Douglas Coupland. i’ve gotten back into a Coupland mood lately and re-read Life After God [one of my favourite books] and am now onto All Families Are Psychotic.
+ sneaking homemade popcorn into the movie theatre.
+ finally meeting people you’ve always noticed and telling them about noticing them. it always makes me feel weird and stalker-ish but it seems to make other people smile!
