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I'm much better this morning. I still hurt, of course, but far far less. I shall rest lots today, but also apply liniment and make sure I can move.

The sprains are mostly only strains and the bruising is only 15% of my body and the finger that was dislocated is healing nicely. This is so much better than it felt yesterday! I rather suspect that 12 hours of sitting-down work (on the bookinnaday) was not the right way to handle it. The snackfood we ate, however was good. I don't normally eat much sweet stuff at all and my body really needed it yesterday.

All in all, good result, even though it means a lot of time out today and tomorrow. If anyone wants updates, just say, otherwise I shall return to my normal reporting unless there's something astonishing to exclaim about on the bruise or muscle front. (I might try to see my chiro next week, for I rather suspect I twisted myself in ways I was not designed to twist. I need to wait until the bruising is past its worse and the strains are gone.)

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I'm being so good today. I've reduced my writing work (and the less I do the faster the inflammation on the right hand goes down) and am doing editing and reading (but only reading that doesn't require carrying things. I do lots of gentle movement, and every time I do this the pain diminishes and then I go nap and the pain goes down some more.

I think I was very lucky and my whole body got involved in the crash and slide across the floor. The number of overflexed muscles suggests this. I know a muscle that's been stretched just a bit much the wrong way from my dancing and a rather large number of my muscles have this feeling and are bouncing right back when give the right treatment - I'm one of those people who overflexing can feel like strain at first and can become strain if I keep abusing the body part, for my muscles are large and inflexible. Also the location of the muscles suggest this, and that I twisted very quickly following the initial fall. The pattern of bruising (now it's starting to emerge) and shows this: I'm bruised all on one side, but the muscles were pulling on both, and more on the lower part of the body than on the upper.

This means that I probably didn't entirely land on one section of my body after all, but almost did and twisted to save myself and, indeed, saved the worst from happening and managed to spread the impact over a much wider area by the time my weight came to bear. I say to my little finger (which is both itchy and sore and has some nice swelling and bruising in its vicinity), "Think of it this way, oh my little finger - dislocation wasn't the worst thing that could happen to you."

If I'm right with my new diagnosis then yesterday was my highest-pain day and today the second highest and from Wednesday or Thursday I may have to be careful carrying things but will basically be back to normal. The fact that I mainly want to sleep today and that the sleep actually reduces the wider pain suggests that I'm right. I love all the Pilates I used to do (when I was wealthier) and all those years of dancing. Not just for the body-understanding, but for the reflex that twisted me around and saved me from the more serious damage. To be honest, I was feeling as if I'd put my promise to CSFG above going to the hospital to be mended, but it turns out that I'm OK. Still, I really should have gone to the hospital. I associate hospitals with major life-threatening things, though.

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My article this fortnight is about a new Perth press, Dragonfall. You can find it here: http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bookish-dreaming/1796-new-words-from-a-new-press-070812

I'm thinking of doing a slow series about individual small presses. If you know anyone who wants to be considered for it, then they should get me information and sample books and maybe be willing to answer a couple of email questions. They don't have to be Australian, but they do have to be under the radar (for whatever reason).