Unexpected injuries

So, I think I hurt my arm getting a tattoo a couple of weeks ago.

Not the actual tattoo site, but my elbow – specifically the end of at least one of the extensor muscles right where it attaches to the elbow. I think I gave myself some sort of elbow injury by getting a tattoo.

The tattoo itself is above my elbow, and was a fine-line piece with a lot of intricate details. It look five hours, give or take, and the vast majority of that time was spent with my arm fully extended, rotated at a slight angle, and with a person leaning on it.

I noticed the elbow was sore afterwards, but assumed it would go away. This is not the first time I've sat in the same position for a prolonged period of time and felt sore and sorry for myself afterwards.

But it's still sore. And it flares up when I rotate my arm or grip something after having it still for a while (which happens a lot when you work on a computer). It seems to be getting better for a while, but then it flares up again and hurts like the dickens. It's actually woken me up in the night a few times.

Yes, I should see a doctor or a physio about that. I'm doing my patented "It will either go away or I'll get used to it" approach to health. I might see someone about it next year. Then again, I still haven't seen someone about the foot injury I gave myself dancing an impromptu jig last year, and that hasn't completely healed, so maybe I won't.

Ah, the 40s, when one mysteriously acquires unexpected injuries, but is too resigned to everything hurting so one doesn't do anything useful about any of them.