I need to be careful...

I have always thought myself to be invincible. Nothing can hurt me... pain is only relative... sick, who has time for it... suck it up and get on with life. Today, I realized, I need to be little bit more careful with my body.

Approximately two weeks ago I had my last softball game of the summer. Bruises and strawberries running up and down my legs have never been that big of a deal. I get them all the time, and they always heal just fine. Because it was the last game of the season, plus, we were playing for the championship I played extra hard. I hit a triple, but I had to slide into third in order to assure my safety at third. Yeah, no big deal, I don't wear sliding pads in slow pitch... come on now it is slow pitch, I might slide once during the entire season. Well this one time didn't turn out so good.

I have a strawberry that runs from my knee to my ankle down the right side of my calf. For some reason this strawberry was different than the rest. There seemed to be more pain associated with it. I of course have kept it very clean, but something started happening. I started getting small whelps up and down the right side of my leg. At first I thought, oh maybe it is just a few pimples. I have never had body acne but you never know. But then I got a huge whelp on the side of my right hip, and this one did not just go away.

I was at work at 6 AM this morning and at the doctor's office by 8 AM... turns out I have an infection in my blood due to the wound on my leg. Which means a heavy dose of antibiotics that makes me nausea plus a tetanus shot. For those of you who don't know, I have a phobia of needles. I survived the shot; until I stood up... when I stood up I almost passed out from the simple fear of needles. Not so tough after all I guess.

At any rate, I really need to start being more careful with my body. I have a softball tournament next weekend… so on the top of priority list is to go buy some sliding pads!

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