Not so grumpy any more but was rather annoyed for approx. a week.
I was doing something stupid in the throne room, when my feet gave way, I was stretched out and bent over, and found out the toilet was closer to my ribs than my hand was to the ground.
Hit is hard, and it hurt, not the kind that goes away, it hurt to a degree continually.
I did my checks to see if maybe I broke a rib , I have hard bones , but I could inhale, sneeze, cough with little problem.
I was stiff and standing up was a either slow and annoying , or quick with brief greater pain.
I slept on a heating pad while lying on my left side so it was on the pad; well that was neither here nor there for being uncomfortable but lying on my right side was pain free but rolling over and pulling my self up in bed was probably more a matter of being anxious it would hurt than it actually hurt.
I was glad it was a decorative iron headboard as I could grab it to pull my self around , although the pain was not severe and I was probably just being chicken sh-- worried.
Next day , it was a lot better; the third day it hurt worse than the first day.
I learned consuming great quantities of over the counter painkillers before going to bed either did wonders, or I though they did.
I got better but sitting up and moving around in bed was fairly constant till two days ago, when for some reason that night I could not find a way that it did not hurt for about an hour when I went to bed.
I blamed it on lying on the floor while watching TV as that did not hurt at all but when I sat up I was back to day three in discomfort and as I said, getting to sleep became get more pain killers.
THEN ---- drum roll ----
Yesterday it was either normal or better than normal, i.e. some times when I stood up it was better but still there, then later in the day it dawned on me that by evening I bent over, stood up and other things and I had forgotten I had it.
Today it is 90 percent gone, and when I got up this morning no debating quickly with a grimace or slowing, being a sissy, I sat up and got up.
One thing that mystified me is a couple of days, after shoveling snow, now THAT was uncomfortable, when I was done I had back pain, not bone related kind but sore muscle kind.
It was just there once in a while and came and went on its own accord.
Well stupidity has just rewards and this past week I won the gold medal.