From the Department of Highly Embarrassing Injuries

[mousme]

I appear to have bruised my tailbone quite badly, and I have no idea how I did it. I didn't fall, and I don't remember knocking against anything. The only time I might have done something to it was at church on Friday, when I was distracted by my cousin's fainting fit. I have no explanation for this.

The net result is that I have been in a reasonable amount of pain for the past few days, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. This is A) highly embarrassing, and B) extraordinarily inconvenient. I never realized just how much my tailbone (and the adjoining muscles and ligaments or whatever) plays a role in my everyday existence until it started to hurt.

The pain isn't debilitating by any stretch of the imagination, don't get me wrong. It's just. always. there. No matter whether I sit, stand, or lie, it hurts to varying degrees. If I stay too long in the same position, it hurts more. Transitions (going from lying to sitting, from sitting to standing, etc.) are the worst, and cause shooting pains up my lower spine.

There has been a lot of swearing under my breath for the past few days, needless to say, and Tylenol is serving only to keep the edge off (which is saying a fair bit, given that I have a pretty good pain tolerance threshold).

The only ice pack I own right now is a hard one, and thus causes a lot more pain to use than it really should. Tomorrow I shall invest in a gel-pack in the hopes that it will be more useful.

What a (literal) pain in the ass.

Comments

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Do you have any frozen vegis in a plastic bag? That's a half decent substitute for an ice pack. My recommendation would be to buy a "Sac Magique". They are made with a buckwheat stuffing and can be heated or chilled.

(((hugs))) and I'm sending some healing vibes in your direction.

[pasley.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that, and it does hurt like the dickens, doesn't it? Poor thing.

I can top your injury in terms of embarrassment, however.
In university, when I was living in a rather seedy part of downtown, I had a pan handler actually punch me in the groin for no other reason than that a)I didn't give him money and perhaps also that b)I was very happy that day (in love). For weeks I had a huge lump and a bruise down there. When I told people the story of what happened, most were sympathetic and supportive (because it was a pretty emotionally traumatizing experience, apart from being physically painful); however, a few people could not believe it and actually teased me and my boyfriend, suggesting that my injury was the result of some sort of violent sexual practice.

Good times.

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

While you're waiting for the gel pack, do you have a bag of frozen peas? They work absolute wonders.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

argh, beat me to it!

also, forgive me for the giggling.

[curtana.livejournal.com]

My sympathies! My tailbone hurt for most of the last trimester of my pregnancy, so I know how hard it is when just *sitting* hurts.

[ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com]

My friend M in Ft Chip's tailbone got permanently deformed by her first pregnancy... It sticks out behind her more than it should, and makes sitting fairly uncomfortable, she tells me.

[julienne64.livejournal.com]

Ow. :-(