From time to time I will be doing some posts that are off topic, this is one of them.  This is about me injuring my arm and missing a few days of work.  The story begins about a month ago at a family reunion.  My girlfriends two cousins got married and didn’t bother to tell anybody so Dee’s mom wanted to have a surprise party for them.  At this party is where I first injured my arm.  Here is how it happened.

I just got done throwing around a football when I saw Dee sitting alone at a picnic table, so I decided to join her.  I sat on the same side that Dee was on (big mistake), the picnic table tipped over and before it hit the ground I dove out of it to save myself (yes very selfish).  In the process of doing this, I injured my elbow (Dee was just fine don’t worry).  My arm has been sore since this incident but I am not the kind of person that likes to go see the doctor.

A few days ago my exercise machine finally came in the mail, maybe you saw the commercial on TV, it’s called the Tower 200.  The Tower 200 is as my girlfriend would call it, “a mini Bowflex”.  It has three different tension settings on each side and the best thing about the Tower 200 is it mounts to the door.

I was pretty excited when I got this “machine” if you will.  First day I worked out for 20 minutes and on the second day I worked out for 45 minutes and that’s when I hurt my arm.  I was doing some curls and when I curled my left arm I heard a pop in my elbow.  I went to the doctor and they took x-rays which came back negative but the doctor did want me to take a break that day.  He also gave me a weird looking brace to put on my arm.  Here is a picture of the device.

Yesterday, I woke up and my arm still hurt and it was swollen.  I went to the doctor and he told me I needed to take the day off once again and go to work on Monday.  I cannot workout for a couple of weeks which is really a bummer and I even have to wear the brace when I am typing.  If I don’t wear the brace it hurts to even type.  I have to say it was really “A Series of Unfortunate Events”.