Wednesday

[susandennis]

My massage bruising is healing nicely.  I only have one really bad spot - on the back of my neck and it's fine if I don't touch it.   And I can still touch my toes. I'm feeling better about the whole thing.

I also made an interesting discovery about my hand/arm blood bruises yesterday. I bumped the back of my hand on the corner of the bookshelf and immediately saw the beginning of a small blood spot.  I rubbed it and it started dissipating. I massaged it for about 2 minutes and it grew bigger but fainter which actually totally makes sense.  But, today, which would normally be day 1 of 14 for the life of these mo'fo's, it's very nearly not there!!!!   So if I can catch it early, which, often I can, maybe I can prevent the ugly!!!

My new computer continues to delight.  The beauty of the screen is hard to describe. Before I bought it, I read all about how hit makes photos and videos so amazing.  But the real thrill is one I didn't read about and so am doubly delighted with and that's how regular stuff looks.  Little icons that I've seen forever - like the gmail envelope - I can now see the contours...  And it's just so snappy. Nothing I do seems to slow it down or make it wait.

My desktop windows machine has a giant YOU MUST REBOOT TO GET THE UPDATE window on it.  I'm going to ignore it while I wallow in the joy of not needing it on this machine.

Today has no special highlights so far.  Swimming, baseball, tv and bear knitting.  A good day in my book.

Comments

Sad cat

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

I thought you might find this video amusing. Hope you haven't seen it already.

Re: Sad cat

[susandennis]

Oh how I love that!!! Thank you!

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

What an excellent bruise trick! I bet it even has some sort of science-y explanation!

[fyremaven.livejournal.com]

Part of the reason for your bruising is your bleeding under the skin ...which I know you already know. It's small capillaries that burst (probably due to some ingredient in your inhalers) and then the bleeding spreads under the skin. If you know the exact spot you hit there's something you can try that might work even better than you massaging it. The massage is ok but you are just spreading the blood out over a bigger area, if that makes sense. You can hold pressure on the spot for up to five minutes. I say that long only because your bleeding times might be that long; bleeding time being how long it takes your blood to throw out the message to finally CLOT. You can get a simple blood test to figure out how many seconds your blood does it in but it only is accurate for that day you took the test so i don't see the point.

If you hold pressure, firm pressure, for up to five minutes and then maybe ice it you should avoid ANY bruising. Of course it's not too convenient depending on where you are but if you are home it should not be a problem.

Next time you go to the doc for routine stuff and he draws blood ask him to draw coags (co-AGS) or a pt/ptt if you want to see the numbers i'm talking about. Yes, I know that as we age our skin grows thinner but your bleeding or coags don't increase with age normally. So it has to be a medicine or a component of a medicine doing it. Or if you take even a baby aspirin that could do it.

Anyway, got terribly wordy there but that's my nurse coming out...sorry! Probably more than you wanted to ever know.... :D

[howeird]

A suggestion for those pesky blood bruises: