Gluemeat

I now sincerely believe, fellow Gluemeaties, that the Holidays are a jinx for me.

Yesterday, the little family and I wanted to take advantage of a beautiful Quebec City day and go out to our favourite hill for a little sliding. After take the old inner tube down a couple of times, my continual quest to show my son that I am the penultimate essence of manliness takes over, and I head over to the side of the hill where a bump can be found, one which propels a joyrider ever so slightly into the air for a few seconds before landing once again, safe and happy on the slick padded snow.

You can all see where this is going.

Seated well and gripping the handles of the tube with power and strength, I head down the hill and hit the bump with full momentum. I get about a second of airtime before crashing heavily on my left shoulder, the impact of which made my whole arm go numb. So I get up, pick up the tube, and walk up the hill, trying to shake it off, but to no avail. It hurts like hell. I’m injured. So I ask my girlfriend to take me to the emergency ward.

Considering it was a holiday and most hospital staff had the day off yesterday, I spent ten, count ‘em, ten hours waiting to see the doctor. When I finally did at about one o’clock in the morning, pain was still shooting up and down my arm and my shoulder had swelled rather considerably. Diagnosis: a stress fracture on my left clavicle. Cure: a sling and more painkillers!

Looks like I’ll be having very, very happy holidays. Lesson to be learned here: avoid me between Christmas and New Year’s.

So, I guess it did pay to be prepared, as here is the next instalment of the Humdrum. The lateness is only due to the sleep I tried to get back. Enjoy!

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