Winter is long.....I hate it.

It certainly has been too long. Life is just way too busy. I really wish things could just slow down and we could all take a breath and enjoy life. Yes, the old cliché to stop and smell the roses. We did a little of that yesterday. After running around to different stores getting things we needed, my family and I decided to take a nice drive to wherever. We just drove around with the warm sun beating down on the windows, warming us up and giving us a nice relaxed feeling. The feeling of not having somewhere specific to be, not having a specific time to have to do something. Just drove around, looking at beautiful houses and scenery, thinking about a time when things will be much easier going. A time when life will be (cliché coming) a bowl of cherries. It was a beautiful afternoon spent with people I love.

As far as skating goes, wow, it’s been a long time. The brutal winter kept me out of it for a while. That and my wrist is absolutely destroyed. I went to our event at RAD Skatepark in Mendon, MA a few weeks ago with the intent on skating. Lost my balance (barely) braced myself on the wall and the pain was intolerable. A long time ago, 1996 to be exact, I fell while skating and snapped the ligaments in my wrist (see diagram). The problem is that there is nothing holding those two bones together so they keep separating and the #4 carpal bone has pushed its way to down in between those two bones. This creates a snag point for the other tendons and ligaments in the area. So I constantly have loud popping in my wrist, and a lot of pain, when the ligaments get stuck and then pop back into their proper position. So, I have gotten a few different opinions and the only option is surgery. I did get a cortisone shot but it doesn’t seem to be doing a whole lot. So, in short, I can’t do much skating or sports because it hurts so bad. I can’t throw a football or baseball, I can’t shoot a basketball and I can barely work. It is terrible. But, gotta deal with it anyway. So who knows when I will be able to skate again. I might just try to deal with and skate, or play sports anyway, because it was good getting exercise. It felt great to get out and break a real sweat. Yes, that is what I will do. Just try to ignore the pain and do what I want to do, skate, play football with the kids and have fun, especially since spring is coming up on us.