Perl till you bleed
So Jeff pulled up his skirt for me last night and showed me various dime-sized bruises covering his upper thighs.
"Lymphoma?" I asked.
"Knitting injury," he replied.
"From jamming the needles into your legs to steady them as you knit?"
"Yep."
Which honestly, while as a health-care professional made me want to take care of him, didn't make me feel so bad about my final diagnosis on my shoulder which has been consistantly troubling since I first picked up knitting a few months ago: partially torn rotator cuff injury. The orthopod I finally went to see last week couldn't believe I'd torn my cuff just from knitting but since I honestly haven't done a lick of anything physical that could be suspected, he couldn't discount the repetative nature of the act and put me on some soothing Bextra for six weeks to see if it relieves the symptoms. Then he wants me to go in for an MRI...all from knitting.
So FUCK YOU, Michael Jackson and your imaginary disslocated shoulders from the imaginary police brutality suffered upon you in that feces-covered bathroom. Real men get real shoulder injurys from knitting, dickwad.
Posted by Beau at December 31, 2003 9:51 AMgetting injured while knitting is probably best ever This Is How I Got Hurt story. it sure beats my masturbation induced tennis elbow.
Posted by: thomas at December 31, 2003 11:56 AMAs a very novice knitter, I have to see what I can do to avoid such a fate.
Posted by: sam at December 31, 2003 1:17 PMCan you describe the symptoms? I've had some soreness and pain after intense knitting sessions and I've wondered before if I wasn't giving myself some sort of repetitive stress injury. Occasionally I'll even lift up my arm after knitting for a while and my shoulder will give a sickening *crack!*. That's usually my cue to take a break...
Posted by: Kris Howard at December 31, 2003 7:03 PMAs a rather avid and speedy knitter, knitting has a tendency to provoke some wrist soreness. My sholders are always sore cause I sleep on them, so I'm not sure if knitting agravates this... In anycase I should probably wear a wrist brace, but I have skinny wrists and am to cheep to go out and buy one. So it can't be that bad.
Having said that, I have a few suggestions for Jeff. 1. Try knitting contental style, which is both faster, and you're a lot less prone to do the jabbing thing. he might try bracing the neelde between his arm and his boddy, or my personal favorite... circular needles (which you can knit back and forth on if you don't like circular kniting,)
And Finaly.... it's purl not perl.
Cheers,
Sam
