MAM,
Sorry to keep remembering what we already discussed at times. In 2007 after getting hit by a pickup at est.75mph while he was being chased by police, the drunk slammed into me on my Harley head-on. Luckily I was only going about 50! Despite wearing my helmet & leathers I still don’t remember much for weeks before or after, and still forget the dumbest stuff, so please forgive me!
It seems that about every 10 years or so I have some kind of crazy accident…. 1987, run over by gravel truck, crushed like a bean burrito! Spine, bladder and bowel fun began!
1996, fell 35 feet through the rotted 2nd floor of an ancient building being rehabbed into high end lofts, luckily I hit my head and blacked out. I landed in the basement where they were storing all of the beautiful hardwood trim, doors etc. Somehow on the flight down, I managed to tear my suit pants to shreds catching my leg bag on something and pulled the whole thing out, an 18fr.30ml indwelling Foley Catheter, it also cut a nice canoe shaped carving in my leg, I’m just damn glad I was “sleeping” for that. Of course lots of cuts and bruises, couple broken ribs, torn left rotator cuff, busted up my knees again and some broken toes & fingers. The worst part was not waking up for while, apparently hit my head hard enough to herniate some neck disks, but no cracks in my melon! I must have an incredibly thick skull, because no hemorrhages just horrible migraines & hard to focus for a few months.
Due to this being a medical conversation I will claim (with little if any medical knowledge, authority nor verification) that this explains emphatically why I can have such an average size head externally, but little if any hollow space inside. It says size Large right on my Panama Jack AND my Leather Kodiak hats, now if that doesn’t just SCREAM “FACT” I don’t know what would? Yet still I’ve found so little space left inside for stuff like memory, common sense or brains. See I’m not stupid, I’m just thick headed as the Nuns used to often tell me….
Sadly, I believe that once again I’ve jabbered on and lost my point. Going back to your exercise routine. While much different at first look, the basic tenets of both of our chosen sports and many others is a strong core. I’ll admit right up front I never achieved those 6 pack abs, it wasn’t for lack of trying!
My Sensei always told me I was going to need a bit of padding the way I let my sparring partners gut-kick me at will or so it seemed, or maybe I just liked it!(He really knew about all of my health challenges, yet never let up on me.) Realty was I rarely let anyone gut-kick me, not only because it hurt, but because I would double knot my catheter & valve and shove it all in my Jockstrap/ cup. Combine that with the thousands of Kegels I did each week, I was just a cramp away from an implosion! This could be another reason you feel your symptoms more acutely than others. Years of strengthening those muscles in rhythm with those that they attached to, or worked together with and now all of a sudden that very delicate balance of nerves and muscles working synergistically is out the window, and the pieces are all doing what they were trained for, but completely out of synch, or just out of touch???
Again, you’re an athlete, I don’t have to tell you but it IS just one day at a time, you’ll get there!
