1) My body feels like crap, and so is my mind. All because of an abrasion wound on my shin from futsal last Sunday.
2) The abrasion wound on the shin is healing, albeit slowly; I can see the reepithelialization occurring. I'm back to praying normally, except for sitting between the sujud, in which I look like someone doing hip thrusters, as it avoids both pressure and tension on the wound. Which makes it painful if you have to ask. The really bad side effects of this are:
3) I'm really feeling a sore lower back, as I can't move as well as I should due to the shin pain; anything that stretches the skin gives it pain. This lead to some overcompensation by more lower back movement, which I'm quite sensitive to from activities of daily living. Lifting was not a problem: the knee isn't bent much during deadlifts, and I squat to only just below parallel, before it's too painful. I've been doing some intensive SMR on them glutes/piriformis area, and it's been feeling so good I want to cry. In pain.
4) As the wound is pretty sensitive, pain while sleeping was also an issue. During the first few days, even wind blowing on the wound causes pain; that's what I call hyperalgesia. Because of that, I've been having up until Thursday interrupted sleep. Which made my mind feel like crap. Maybe that explains why I did so poorly for the DCP (for my standards anyway). When you still feel sleepy after drinking Diet Coke + teh tarik + 2 Starbucks coffee in less than a 4 hour span, you have a problem. I need sleep, hopefully a lot tomorrow.
5) Coax has joined the team, and is doing well. Very well. His whole body is in pain, which gives me great pleasure, and proves that sadism is related to masochism.
6) People always assume and laugh at others for what they themselves do not know. Don't do that, cause deep inside, you know you're an idiot for doing so.
7) "Your eyes don't see what the mind doesn't know." This saying for medical students should be heeded by anyone. You cannot appreciate anything you see in this life if you know nothing. So keep learning.
8) Abah should do well with his migraine problems causing TIA episodes with rest and propanolol. And as long as the pattern of illness is diurnal than constant throughout the day, I think the recovery would be excellent, even though I'm pretty guarded as a son. But neurology was never my strong suit. I still don't understand why the aspirin was withhold too.
Training:
Tried something new, aka videos of my sessions. They might say more about what I did than words. My pullups this week sucked though; I hope that Coach Selkow won't be too displeased with that. It was the end of the week, and the lack of sleep was getting to me. Click on the days for the videos.
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