Hudson does P90X - October 8, 2010

FRIDAY!  Hooray!  I have the day off work, so we started later.  8 a.m.  Hudson woke up for the first time while we've been working out and he exercised with us.  That was fun. 

I REALLY don't want to wake up early on Saturday. So I'm not going to.  I'm taking Saturday and Sunday off this week.

Whoops - October 6, 2010

James was playing basketball on break at work and hurt his wrist.  He and another guy jumped for the same rebound and James fell on his wrist and butt. They sent James home early (1/2 an hour) and told him to ice it.  But no clear instructions about whether or not it was workman's comp - considering it happened while James was on break.

So James stopped by the closest Walgreens and picked up a wrist brace, some ibuprofen and a couple ice packs.  He iced his wrist on his way to class, switched to the wrist brace for the lecture and then iced on the way home.

It seemed to be swelling a bit, so we went to the local Urgent Care for X-Rays.  Nothing broken and the Dr. ok'd the wrist brace and prescribed a stronger anti-inflammatory. 

Then on Thursday morning, they finally decided that it was workman's comp and sent James to the workcare Dr.  He's on light duty at work for the next week and has physical therapy appointments on Tues/Thurs before they'll put him back on regular duty.

(This is James' second round of workman's comp.  Back in Feb 2010, he was moving boxes and had sudden back pain.  Visited the workcare Dr and had physical therapy - including electroshock therapy.  Then both of us were very good about doing his daily back exercises during our Lake Tahoe skiing adventure.  We haven't done the back exercises since ski season ended.)

Except for the lack of mountain biking (that homework was preventing anyway), the wrist hasn't bothered James much.  It is still tender if he moves it 'just so'.  He's curious to see what the Physical Therapist will have him do - probably not electroshock therapy!

Silver Lining - James injured his wrist on a long weekend.  We already took Friday and Monday off of work for our Anniversary weekend.  So he'll have 4 days off of work for it to heal.  Even the overwhelming amount of busywork from his computer class won't be detrimental - he can use the mouse with the wrist brace on!

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This picture - with James' biker mustache - reminds me of a Backcountry.com story.  James told me that one of the guys at work recently started sporting his own biker mustache.  When James gave him a compliment on the new 'stache', the other guy stroked his mustache and replied, "You like my 'McCalvy'?" - awesome! 

I love my McCalvy and his 'McCalvy'!