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There is a bursa (trochanteric, maybe?) on the side of your hip where your hip and thigh meet, and it will hurt like the dickens if you fall on it and irritate it. But it sounds to me more like your fall may have caused some sacroiliac misalignment. There are several different sections in the pelvis that can become dislocated from falls like that.
I was cooking during a holiday dinner at my daughter's house once, when her twins were really young, maybe 18 months old. I went to move from the stove to the sink, not realizing that there was a baby right at my feet. Lost my balance, did all kinds of mid-air twisting and turning, trying not to fall on the baby, and landed square on my hip on the hardwood floor.
If that's what happened to you, unfortunately it means trips to a physical therapist. Ortho people can tell you what it is with scans and such, but they can't actually help you with it. We all know how that goes. But a skilled physical therapist can twist and turn your hip and leg in such a way that you will be able to feel it when those bones slide back into place. Then the trick becomes training the muscles to hold them there.
I can go to sleep very nearly anywhere and at any time. My problem is staying asleep. I have discovered over the years, while tinkering with my diet, that the waking in the middle of the night is linked to my intake of carbs and sugar. When I eat low carb, I sleep through the night.
Y'all have a good day. I'm to the office today and not happy about it.
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When I was younger I once had a job where I worked 2 10 hr 4 day back to back work weeks 8 on 6 off loved it.
We have a white noise machine. It prevents me from sleeping. Anything louder than the ceiling fan is bound to keep me awake, at least until I am asleep. Then, almost nothing can wake me up.
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I use a fan.
But have downloaded soothing sounds from Youtube using Free youtube downloader and downloading as sound file only.
Still big files, 8 hours sometimes of rain, etc sounds.
I can never go to sleep with TV on. Brainz keeps paying attention to its gibberish.
While a weather observer in the USAF (before forecasting school), my work shift was midnight-8 AM (M shift) for 2 days, then 8 AM to 4 PM (D shift) for 2 days, then 4 PM to midnight (S shift) for 2 days, then four 24-hour periods off, then back to midnight to 8 AM, etc. That went on for 3.5 years. The exception was that once every six weeks, I got sent TDY to a bombing range, where the shift was 7 AM to 5 PM for 5 days, then back to my primary base and an immediate return to the MM/DD/SS routine. Talk about something that really screws with your sleep pattern...
Screws with your sleep pattern? Yep know all about that worked 24 hour coverage rotating shifts for quite a few years.
And lots of just straight Hoot Owl shifts. Could never fully adjust to that.
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It makes me a combo of jittery and foggy if I take a lot of it, but one pill doesn't do much of anything; I've been taking that shit for so long (50+ yrs), I think I'm kind of immune to it -- horrible allergies as a child, and if the dimetapp elixir wasn't working well enough, time to bring out the benadryl elixir... and all those elixirs (mixed in alcohol) plus my genetics indicate why I was an alcoholic even before I started drinking! Seriously... I CRAVED alcohol, even before I was old enough to buy and consume it recreationally. I think shit like that is why kids' meds don't contain alcohol anymore!
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Doesn't help, except that if I DON'T run the fan, I can't sleep AT ALL -- too damn many dogs barking around here. I can't find a real white noise machine that I a) actually like and b) can afford, so I just run a box fan on high, facing the corner of the room -- it doesn't blow ON me, but does help air circ in the room at night, which is nice.
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Thinking about nothing.
If one thinks about it does that not make it something?
If one thinks about it does that not make it something?
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I'll bite on that one. I do not believe that one can "think about nothing."
I believe one can "not think," but that is not the same thing.
It's 'way more Zen, dudes.
BINGO!I'll bite on that one. I do not believe that one can "think about nothing."
I believe one can "not think," but that is not the same thing.
It's 'way more Zen, dudes.
Many years ago I practiced Transcendental Meditation.
The trick is to clear ones mind of all thoughts.
Not so good at doing that after 60+ years of absorbing garbage.
And might have a few misbehaving neurons in there too.
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Eckhart Tolle, tiny blue book called "Practicing the Power of Now." It's as simple as putting your mind into your breath.
If you try, you can't. If you stop trying...
Yep you got it.
Also did deep breathing relaxation.
Now that is a good way to fall asleep.
Must try that again.
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Was thinking more about this... a) anything that sounds like water will either make me have to pee CONTINUALLY, or end up wetting the bed; b) anything that shuts off after a while will then cause me to awaken as soon as it shuts off. Anything that actually sounds like *something* (like the soft music, wind, etc) will just keep me awake, listening to it.
Both of these are why I cannot find an actual "white noise machine" that suits me -- it CANNOT be anything watery or liquidy, and it needs to run until I waken in the morning and turn it off or, as with the fan, down to low, its daytime setting -- I need that in the daytime or the damn clock ticking drives me absolutely batshit -- in this age of electronics, exactly why does a clock need to fucking TICK????? The drone/roar of the box fan is perfect, because it's boring enough to become the background and block out all the goddamn annoying dogs and the goddamn annoying neighbors and their goddamn annoying cars' travelling-earthquake "music".
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ETA: the only background noise which is "something" that might qualify as sleep-inducing is the sound of football on TV -- it reminds me of going to sleep after a big Sunday dinner, lying on the floor in the living room surrounded by my grandfather, grandmother, aunt, and uncle, with the football game on TV; I can actually feel myself going to sleep, as the sound of the game gets more and more distant -- it's not like I actually understand anything being said, it might as well be swahili when comes to football nomenclature,.
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Yep - my left hip hip joint used to chronically come out of joint - even just slipping a little on ice would throw it out and I'd have to have it manipulated back in.
PT helped - I could tell a vast difference if I didn't do it , but it was a chronic problem
Hasn't happened in almost a year now since I got back into yoga
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I have a similar dysfuction with my right hip, thx to a slip on ice when I was pregnant; didn't wanna hit my bottom hard on the ground, afraid of dislodging the 4 month fetus, so I did some kind of gyration that severely fucked my right hip and my spine. My OB was a DO
so he adjusted my back and it felt INSTANTLY better, but ever since, sometimes that hip comes unstuck or something. The only thing that seems to fix it is to sit on the ground in "lotus" fashion, knees flat to the ground, and pull my heels up toward my crotch -- it gets harder as I get older, as you might imagine, but I can still do it, and it still works to pop my hip back into correct position.Actually, the hard part, as I get older, is just getting down on the ground and then getting back up.
I have to do it beside my bed, so I have the bed to assist me downward and getting up again, plus my bedroom is the only carpetted room in the house.Andria
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Nite Jane have a good rest.
And do not think about anything.
many seem to go all day long not thinking
And do not think about anything.
many seem to go all day long not thinking
Evening Jimi.
How are you doing this evening?
How are you doing this evening?
Evening Robert, I am hanging in there buddy how you doing
Ohh not so bad slept in and a lazy day, just cleaned up the bathroom and did dishes today.
tomorrow I have to take the wacko SIL to a Doctors appt with about a 1 hour drive each way....
And a bit of it will be in the big city driving in the rain.
I hate driving in the big city. Density of idiots on the road is much higher there.
I agree with you there buddy, the bigger the city the stupider the drivers
Recorded call yesterday told me the power would be out for 3 hours today while they worked on the sub-station. After six hours, I drove down there to ask what the hell they were doing. They installed a new transformer, but it wasn't working. I told them the old one was working, and since no one bothered to do any QC on the new one, why don't they just put the old one back because I needed electricity to make dinner and fill water troughs for my animals, and ya see that redhead in the truck? If that ain't back on soon, she's gonna nuke your ass. Power was back on about half an hour after we got home, just before it was too dark to see anything in our house. Eight workmen at that sub-station and three were sitting on top of the transformer jerking off while the others stood on the ground scratching their asses. When are we going to get competent workers back in this country?
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I always suspected masturbation was bad for the economy
Idiots is right. They passed a statewide law in Texas banning texting while driving. Yet, I saw a news van in Abilene, in which both the driver and passenger were texting. So, which one is supposed to be watching the damn road?
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If I had my phone on, I'd have taken a picture to send to the station KTXS, and to their competitors.
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If I had my way, anyone who texts while driving would lose his/her license - permanently!
I could have cost those guys their jobs. But, my phone is turned off while driving. So, no pics.
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It's not really necessary to turn it off, to simply ignore it. When I first got a mobile phone in 2016, I immediately had to set a ring and notification tone that wouldn't startle me right outta my hair; when I'm driving, the phone is in the side pocket of my purse, which is in the passenger seat, and the phone is facing the seat, so that if I have to hit the brakes hard and the purse flies to the floorboard, the phone doesn't fly out -- and with the radio on and me caterwauling along with it, I never hear that stupid phone. If it's important, they'll call or text again late4r, or leave a voicemail. Plus, only those in my contacts list can get thru to my phone or text me anyway, and all those people know I ignore the phone while driving.
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My phone is a tracfone. I don't get enough calls to worry about paying monthly. But, I also don't want robocalls to eat up all my minutes, so I only turn it on when I need to use it.
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Losing their jobs is not enough. A couple months back, I came up to a four-way stop, looked all ways, and started to pull out. I saw a car coming up on my left and the driver had something in his hands, at the top of the steering wheel, and he was looking at that object (I assumed a cell phone) and NOT at the road or the stop sign he was approaching. Instinctively, I stayed right where I was. That asshole went right through the stop sign without even slowing. If I had pulled out, he would have smashed me broadside, destroying my truck and possibly killing me. Negligent homicide? No, he would only have been cited for failure to yield the right of way. There are far too many people killed by these assholes who think their texting is more important than paying attention to the road. Gawd forbid they should delay their important facebook post for a few minutes.
Texas law would give those ass hats nothing more than a $100 fine. It's just enough to make sure some responsible drivers pull over before playing on their phones.
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Ha, great I suppose - how about you???
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I agree with you 500%. I committed a similar offense when I was just 18 yrs old, almost 40 yrs ago now, but mine was the so-important search for the lighter to light my coffin nail.
Ran smack into the back of a Dodge Dart, going uphill, with a Chevy Nova, going about 40 MPH -- if my car had been lower-slung, it would have simply flipped that ass-in-the-air Dodge Dart... Fortunately the girl driving it saw me coming in the rear view mirror, and took her foot off the brake -- so the accident that could easily have seriously injured or even killed both of us (no air bags or seatbelt usage then!) merely totalled both cars.Now, when I'm driving, I rarely take my eyes off the road and traffic in front of me, and then only to check the other directions very quickly -- not for any other reason. If you live thru doing something like that, you won't do it again, if you have an IQ over 50.
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I had a car get totalled by a woman who was not paying attention. I was stopped, waiting to make a left turn, when I got rear ended. My car was just good enough to drive around in town before my insurance declared it totalled.
There was no way she could drive her little dodge dart anymore. Don't know if she was on her phone at the moment, but she was talking on it before she got out of her wreck.
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There was no way she could drive her little dodge dart anymore. Don't know if she was on her phone at the moment, but she was talking on it before she got out of her wreck.
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Then it appears to me that about half this country has an IQ of <49. Every single time I go on my monthly shopping trips to "the big city," every other car has some jerk driving with phone in hand. I have taken to driving so defensively in the past couple years, I feel like I am back in the military, in the middle of a fire fight. (and tomorrow is monthly shopping day)
There is good reason I have a dash cam installed. Still wondering if I should put one on the back window too.
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Yes, I'm aware of the generally abysmal mental powers of at least 50% of the human race -- I call them "proto-humans". Just another reason I'm a hermit -- I do like the convenience of living so close to everything, but living as isolated as y'all are, I'd like that so much, it might be worth it. I couldn't deal with the farm stuff, though; heard lots of stories of that kind of life from my grandparents, who both grew up in sharecropping families in rural extreme-N GA. Frankly I'm just not strong enough, too accustomed to meat in plastic wrap and eggs in cardboard containers -- I do know where food comes from, but a bit too squeamish to want to be involved in that production.
Though I did love gardening, 20 yrs ago when my body hadn't yet turned against me for all the abuse I've dealt it. Now if I get out to prune my roses, I've really accomplished something!Andria
Ain't nothing wrong with a little farm work. Growing up, I took care of chickens and a 1/2 acre garden. Come hunting season, I did my share of butchering the deer too. Never did have better sausage in all my life!
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And if I had my way, I'd live in a luxury condo - - - - on Mars. (I just cannot stand cities. It's all I can do to visit them on shopping days.) Now if someone would just parachute my pizza and take-out Chinese to my luxury Mars condo...
I hate cities enough that I have to entice my hubby to drive most of the time I have to go there. There's just way too many ass hats to deal with, especially the ones that race in front of me just to turn 20 feet after they go around me.
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Many many years ago, my ex-wife's uncle died while vacationing at his favorite fishing haven, which left his wife, truck, trailer house, and boat on the Orygun coast. They lived in L.A. We drove over to the coast and I drove their truck/trailer (and her) to her place in L.A., and a 12-lane freeway during rush hour is nearly impossible to change lanes on when you are in something that big and don't know where you are going. She said, "We need to turn here" and I needed to cross three lanes to do that. Not something I ever want to do again.
And we hated 8 lane streets in El Paso when we went there. LA, with 12 lanes? I think I'd lose what's left of my mind.
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