I wanna rock
and roll all night and party every day is the song
that I woke up singing in my head around 3:00 AM. Dear reader, now I am sure it
is playing in yours too from the moment you read the title. Love this song by
the American rock band Kiss formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul
Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss. I used to love watching
them on MTV, those outfits and all the remarkable makeup caught my attention-
love at first sight. I just thought they were so hot and sexy. I can still sing
the lyrics to most of their songs, just don´t ask me which one is my favorite,
that´s a tough question. Perhaps my only regret was never having gone to one of
their concerts. Enough daydreaming, back to the text now.
Rolling would
not be the right word here; it is much more like tossing and turning. Science
says that we need a specific hour load of sleep to reenergize and to be healthy,
lately I have been losing sleep. There is a lot on my plate, especially health
issues. Tossing also sounds like such a harsh word to use in this situation
because of the pain I feel in my left shoulder which is due to bursitis and
tendonitis. As a result, when I turn in bed it is done in slow motion, each
movement is so accurately measured. But sometimes my calculations are off, and
I let out a moan, groan or scream. No, the word tossing would not make sense
here, nor would rolling.
For those of you
do not know what Tendonitis or Bursitis is, I will try to do my best to explain.
Here goes. Bursitis is an inflammation or irritation caused by too much
friction between tendons and bones. Tendonitis is an inflammation or irritation
of a tendon caused by a sudden injury or the repetition of a particular
movement overtime. I blame the computer. I inculpate my cell phone. I incriminate
the way that I sit or lie down on my left elbow to watch Netflix. All in all, I
blame myself, my poor posture, my age, me, myself, and I. Maybe I should accuse
the coronavirus, that way I will feel better.
The pain tends
to lessen when the weather is warmer, if I do not use it that much, especially
in repeated motions, a good way of loosening it up is stretching. Mind you, I
have also been doing specific physiotherapy exercises for my left shoulder. The
only downside is that now I tried to do more things with my right shoulder and
that one is giving little signs of “hey, you're using me too much” and
it is also starting to hurt a bit. This happens especially while
sleeping. I sleep on my left side. When the pain is excruciating, I turn to the
other side. Eventually, I wind up sleeping on my back, which sometimes also
bothers me. There have been nights when I thought of sleeping in the easy chair
instead of the bed. But then I think of my neck and for sure it will complain.
My physiotherapist
says that from my MRIs, it is manageable. She was relieved when she saw that my
tendons had not torn because then it would be more critical. It is funny how one
of the movements that I cannot do is as if I were flapping my arms to fly. This
makes me laugh out loud because this is not one of the repeated actions that I
do on a daily basis. I do not walk around flapping my wings, oops, arms. Nonetheless
I do need to straighten my muscles, especially in the upper body, of course not
leaving out the lower body due to my leg issues. OK, so all in all I need to
strengthen my whole body.
I guess this issue of aches and pains is an
ongoing process until it is my time to go. I always imagine that the day I wake
up pain free, will be the day that I have left this world. I do realize that there are painkillers that
can be taken for these aches; however, they are dreadful to the liver. I am
always talking to my doctors about leaving the heavy drugs for when the pain is
over 15. You know when they ask you to evaluate your pain from 0 to 10, I have
always wondered how they came up with this scale. I always kid with my doctors
about this and sometimes say 13. At least, it makes them laugh. One doc told me
that a 10 was when you wanted to bang your head on the wall. I have not reached
that point yet. In the meantime, I will
continue with my hot water bottles, exercises, meditation, and other drugfree
remedies.
But, I still
wanna rock and roll our night and party every day!
Written: July
24, 2021
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