My right arm is seriously jacked. First off, my carpal tunnel is back in full force as if I had never even gotten that cortisone shot last summer. Some days it hurts so badly that I actually cry from the pain, other days it's tolerable. However, there really isn't a time when it doesn't hurt. When on the computer I use a computer glove/brace and other times I have my wrist in a cast-like brace.

Yesterday when I was unbuckling my seat belt in Rob's car, my hand involuntarily opened and the belt whipped back and hit me on the elbow/funny bone... hard. For a few minutes, I couldn't even tell Rob what had happened I was in so much pain. Eventually I explained it to him. Not only did I have wrist pain and shooting pains up my arm from the wrist, but now also my elbow hurt like hell and I had shooting pains down the arm as well.

In the few minutes it took Rob to run some packages upstairs and come back down to the car to get Gabriel out, I started getting extremely cold. As most of you know, feeling cold is not normal for me. By the time he got back to the car and I got out I was shivering to the point where my whole body shook and my teeth were even chattering. I then started laughing, I don't know why, just uncontrollably laughing.

Come to find out, my body couldn't tolerate the severe wrist pain *and* the pain in my elbow and I started going into shock. Greeeeaaaat. I called my Mom, who is pretty much a walking medical encyclopedia, and she told me to get off my feet and lay down. I did so and over time stopped laughing and shaking. About a half hour after the belt hit my albow, I was fine.

How odd that something like that would send me into shock and yet I didn't go into shock (at least, I don't think I did) when I fractured my knee last spring.

I need a new cyber right arm... one with a flamethrower in it. That would be cool.

Anyway, my wrist is still bad today and while my elbow is better, it's getting the beginnings of a nasty bruise on it.

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You Are Peanut Butter Sandwiches / Do-si-dos

You are easy going and naturally happy. You don't need a lot to make you smile. You genuinely care about people and are a great friend. You're always doing your best to make the world a better place. Even though there isn't an immature bone in your body, you still are like a big kid sometimes. Why make life complicated when the best parts are actually quite simple? You enjoy the small joys of life.

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