Like, when the apocalypse comes, where do you get all your football shoulder pads and crossbows?

Also, where can you go to get a good crimp and bleach job?

Hm.

Exactly how much damage could I have done to my knee simply from slamming into into a metal filing cabinet? I swear the pain keeps getting worse, but I don't see a big bruise or anything. It's been almost 10 hours, though. Shouldn't it be feeling better by now? The thing that concerns me is that the pain is giving me a nasty limp, not just the pain I would expect from a bruise.

ChiKat, thanks! I'm not normally a namer of things - my ipod languishes unnamed (although not unloved), but when I decided to get a laptop I started refering to my future laptop as McKay (at least in my head).

Anna the Cat keeps getting on and off my legs. I think she needs something nice for Xmas, but she's old, doesn't need cat furniture and sleeps on my bed so there's no need for a cat bed. But she should get something nice, especially since my brother's dog is getting a monogrammed dog bed. And the dog has only been the family for a few months, Anna's been around for 18 years!

Kristin have you put ice on or elevated your knee?

Nope. I am a big baby about ice. I will, though. Promise.

In the event of an apocalypse, Sox and I were taught at a young age to shoot to kill or don't bother pulling the trigger.

Ouch, Kristin!

A student in one of my sister's classes was asked to put away his cell phone at the beginning of a test today. This distressed him. He finally asked my sister if she could take the phone and answer any calls that came in and take messages. Apparently, he wasn't waiting for important news, just didn't want to miss any calls.

I suggested that she take the phone and proceed to have long, cryptic conversations while her students were trying to take the test that sounded like she was talking about the answers, but not.

Exactly how much damage could I have done to my knee simply from slamming into into a metal filing cabinet?

Ummm, the girl who stayed home with a bruised butt has nothing to offer.

Exactly how much damage could I have done to my knee simply from slamming into into a metal filing cabinet? I swear the pain keeps getting worse, but I don't see a big bruise or anything. It's been almost 10 hours, though. Shouldn't it be feeling better by now? The thing that concerns me is that the pain is giving me a nasty limp, not just the pain I would expect from a bruise.

Back in March, S fell down walking across a parking lot in Tuscon, the morning we were to drive back here to LA. At first it wasn't bad, but over the course of the day, it got worse and worse, to the point she really couldn't walk by about half way back. It showed no signs of a bruise, really, but hurt when she put any weight on it. When we finally got back to LA, we went to the ER, were up until almost 5:00 in the morning, only to discover that it wasn't broken, nor was it otherwise seriously injured (though it had swollen quite a bit), and within a couple of days she was right as rain.

Which is all to say that, while your knee is probably fine, even if it hurts like the dickens to try and walk on it, if you have to ask a question like "have I possibly done grievous bodily harm to myself?" the answer should probably be "maybe I should ask a professional."

Where it is 48 hours afterwards can give you a better idea.

I seem to have messed up my left hand. my arm has been bugging me for a week or so - and that is better, but my hand is obviously where the pain started. It complains when it is used to do basic things. Bah. It had be better next week

heat might help too, Kristin. I've heard that alternating heat and cold is best.