Reply #4: You being a nurse, it may not surprise you, but [View All]

goldang, broken ribs hurt a LOT more than a broken back does.

But at least I'm down to only about half the day in my Jewett brace, and part of that is the mile I'm walking every day (and without a cane!) (neither of which is doctor-sanctioned, nor is the home-grown physical therapy I'm doing on my broken shoulder).

I figure, screw it. I don't have cancer or heart disease (and have a textbook BP of 110/75 as of this afternoon), so I'll just MAKE the broken parts of my body do what I tell them to do, rather than what they want to do - no matter how much those parts complain.

I'm the boss here, after all. Those body parts may think they're punishing me by ratcheting up the pain when I work them over, but let 'em try that as much as they want to. They won't win, if for no other reason than the fact that I'm a lot bigger than they are.

Redstone