A little over two weeks ago I dropped an electric motor on my toe, bruised it so bad the nail came off this past Friday, but it's mostly healed now. Think I bruised it down to the bone, by the valley in the flesh under the nail that was exposed after I finally removed the nail. (and the pain when it happened, felt like my foot was nailed to the floor as the nerves knew nothing but pain for several moments) Just have to grow the nail back properly, it's pretty rough right now but at least it's closed.
Two days after injuring my toe, I try to lift an old ventilation blower from a rooftop AC unit as part of a scrap run.
Turns out I've lost some upper body strength since I'd been able to (barely) move it well over a year ago. (I blame having Covid for the first time last Christmas)
I try to lift it, feel three pops in my elbow and it locks fully extended. I fully ruptured my distal (lower) biceps tendon, ripped it off the bone. Oddly, aside from the bruising in the area later, not all that painful!
Just last week I had it surgically repaired. They drill a hole in the arm bone and stick the end of the tendon in there, holding it in place with sutures. This requires two incision, one in the pit of the elbow and one on the outer side, a bit away from the joint.
I'm really glad they gave me seven days worth of Oxy, because bone pain does not mess around!
Almost seven days later and only two Oxy left, I can endure the pain without narcotics and the swelling is much reduced.
On top of all this, broke the toilet when trying to repair it, but in a way that was good as that uncovered the floor damage under it.
2025 ain't even half over and it's been quite the ride.
Not all bad, though. Finally got the transmission in my parent's car replaced with a used, low-mileage one from a wrecking yard after the local Valvoline quick-lube overfilled it and it grenaded on the freeway over a year ago.
Life goes ever onward and the adventure continues!