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[JoshuaFH]

okay, real thing to be sad about now: I just went right over my handlebars when riding my bike. I had the sun in my eyes, and it's a narrow sidewalk, and I'm cresting over a bridge, and I'm going downhill, and I'm feeling nervous, and I see someone in front of me I couldn't see, and I just slam on both my brakes and just tumble the fuck right over my handlebars. I'm mostly unscathed miraculously. I just landed on both my arms and they're hurt but not broken. I can't lift my arms up very high though. I have a pair of headphones around my neck that I can't take off because I can't lift my arms up high enough to take them off.

It's really surreal being such a stupid asshole like I am. I'm such a fucking loser. I wasn't even in danger of hitting the guy, I just panicked and the situation turned to shit in a second.

[LordBaal]

Dude, if you still cant lift your arms go to a medic or an er.

[JoshuaFH]

I can lift them, just bending them enough to touch my neck is very difficult. I don't believe I'm seriously injured at all, I'm just sore after the fall, and seriously butthurt about it.

[LordBaal]

You did nothing wrong my friend, dont beat up yourself.

[JoshuaFH]

It really hurts to feel incompetent all the time.

[LordBaal]

I know, I feel like that 99% of the time. I assure you in your case is more in your head than anything.

[JoshuaFH]

So I went to the ER today to have it looked at, and I had actually caused a hairline fracture in the radial head in both elbows. The left arm being slightly more fractured than the right. Even though the left arm feels much less painful and more usable, but the xrays don't lie.

Granted, it doesn't seem that serious, as they side it was fractured but non-dispplaced, and if I take good care of it it'll heal in 3-4 weeks, but they advised me to schedule an appoint with an orthopedic doctor first thing in the morning. They then wanted me to walk out of the hospital with both arms in slings, but I was driving myself home and I needed the usage of both arms. I have one arm in a sling as I type this.

Guess my efforts to try to exercise have backfired in my face really spectacularly. Fuck me. Now I'm back to taking it easy and doing nothing more strenuous than playing videogames or whatever.

[None]

Ouch. Live do curveballs like that, for sure, but the more you're out there honing your body, the less likely you are to get injured! You could still go for walks, right?

Glad to hear the damage isn't any worse than it is.

[McTraveller]

My wife and I are on such different pages when it comes to disciplining our children...  neither of us are really into spanking, but it's more in the proactive vs reactive stance, and following through with punishments.

It's causing lots of stress. 

EDIT: I'm still working on having more grace. I bought some flowers.

[dragdeler]

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[LordBaal]

My wife and I are on such different pages when it comes to disciplining our children...  neither of us are really into spanking, but it's more in the proactive vs reactive stance, and following through with punishments.

It's causing lots of stress. 

EDIT: I'm still working on having more grace. I bought some flowers.

This is normal, and was/still is a source of friction for us too. Try to discuss it at a moment were the kid(s) haven't done anything yet so neither of you have a hot head, find a middle ground, reach an agreement and both of you try to your earnest to stick to it.

If you don't present a united front you'll be overwhelmed by your own human pups.

[Naturegirl1999]

Isn’t discipline reactive? What would be an example of proactive? If I did something wrong, I’d get told why it was wrong and. How it could have been handled differently. I think this is reactive if I understand correctly

[LordBaal]

No, it could be proactive in talking and setting rules and standards before anything happen.

[Naturegirl1999]

No, it could be proactive in talking and setting rules and standards before anything happen.

ah yes, rules were set too, usually when I think discipline rules don’t come to mind. Rules are important though. Both rules and letting the kid know what they did wrong and how to better handle the situation are important

[scriver]

I wish I could just go catatonic and not have to be awake any more. Sometimes I can't wake up until late in the afternoon and I wish it could be like that all the time so I didn't have to wake up at all.