Post #2029847
2026-04-30 07:59 UTC
Replies (3)
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@cousinsd@mastodon.nz 2026-04-30 19:12
Thank you for your kind and considered comments. I regret posing a rhetorical question. Paddock harvesting vegetables is solid work, and I spent all of last weekend roofing, and yesterday I spent a good part of the day digging and crow-barring stony soil and concrete (I managed to get a power pole, which stands within our boundary and was on a lean, back up to plumb). So, yes, over-worked hands. I left school at 16 years of age and I have spent a large portion of the subsequent 47 years exchanging manual labour for wages. Aside from the occasional minor injury, no sore hands, but in the past year, meh. My body is ageing, I accept that. Ngā mihi. @zeborah@mastodon.nz @aligorith@mastodon.nz
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@zeborah@mastodon.nz 2026-04-30 08:04
@cousinsd@mastodon.nz Do you do anything repetitive or where you have to hold a particular grip for a long period? Repetitive/strain type injuries can arise from very innocuous-seeming tasks.
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@aligorith@mastodon.nz 2026-04-30 08:13
@cousinsd@mastodon.nz Hang on... just scrolled back to see your flu + covid booster post Yeah, that's probably your immune system doing weird shit. In other words, if you got a flu or covid for real, you'd probably feel the same thing too (e.g. for me, it's my right knee going off, from that time I landed heavily on it on that Milford Sound tour day) Other examples: * In the past 2 years, 2 different colleagues have been wiped out by the flu vaccines * Mum and I were also completely wiped out by our 3-4th or was it 4th-5th covid boosters (you know, raging fever, chills, full body pains, debilitating fatigue, etc.) - for a good 48hrs, starting about 10pm following a 2:30 jab. Really horrid stuff...