Going back to my end-of-year fall on the butt and my landing urgently at the ICU, my hurting posterior still has to be addressed and repaired, which in fact is both funny and concerning because it still hurts like hell, I can still barely put on my underpants, pants, socks and shoes on my own, and no skiing to boot, excuse the play on words, because it’s been impossible for me to get into my super stiff ski-boots, even if a third party tried to help.
That means skiing must wait, even though the Ski Patrol strike might eventually be over and the tourists are mostly all gone! So the brilliant doctors attending to me all focused on the cardiac problem I didn’t have and instead didn’t investigate my intensely hurting buttock.
Clearly, I had to fall on my “piriformis muscle” and injured it badly in the process. I’m pretty sure you’d never heard of that muscle, but we all have a pair and now you do.
That muscle is where the center of bruise is located. It got inflamed after I fell, probably grew enough in volume to apply undue pressure on the nearby sciatic nerve, leading to acute pain and irritation alongside the leg, in other words causing a form of sciatica. The schematic tells the story better than I could ever do, but even better than the medical folks who handled me and forgot to look at that, which is quite astounding and shows that medical acumen if it ever existed isn’t always put to good use!
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