Last week I noticed my right elbow was hurting, kind of like what one might call a "tennis elbow" only I haven't been playing tennis. I was puzzled over what I had done to injure myself. Plenty of times while working on projects I bruise or cut myself and don't even notice until later on. The adrenaline of working I guess.
But usually when I strain something, I know why. Case in point, pulling nails from a bazillion boards using a vise grips. My hands were in traction after that. I knew why.
I just couldn't think of what had caused this. Then it dawned on me... It was the garlic press! I had made garlic olio using a manual garlic press and pressed so much garlic that I gave myself garlic press elbow. Leave it to me to overexert myself cooking dinner.
I determined to buy a better garlic press. I have too many important things to do to be disabled by any inferior garlic press. So, off to Crate & Barrel I went.
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ReplyDeleteFunny. I did something similar recently. I couldn't figure out what I'd done to my left wrist. I thought I might of done something to it lifting weights. Then I figured it out. I'd stuffed a couple hundred envelopes at work and the repetative motion had strained it. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one suffering from odd, random physical injures.
ReplyDeleteI got flyer folding back once - hurt like heck, but I felt funny telling people why I was hunched over in pain. . .
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