[NON BLOG] On being in my body
Jan. 7th, 2016 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI spent most of today getting a patellar dislocation in my left knee treated at Toronto Western Hospital. Briefly, Tuesday night I slipped on my kitchen floor, dish soap having soaked unseen through a plastic bag onto the floor, and my kneecap slid off to the side. It went back in place when I kicked my leg out, just as it did the other time this happened two decades ago, but the pain and swelling remained even this afternoon.
The swelling has gone down from its peak--my left knee looks only moderately larger than my right--and the X-rays haven't revealed any damage to the bone. I've an appointment to 7:45 in the morning on the 18th to have a specialist take a look at the joint, so I'll find out what happened them.
One thing this incident has made me do is think about my relationship to my body. I've been reminded forcefully that Cartesian dualism is false.
The swelling has gone down from its peak--my left knee looks only moderately larger than my right--and the X-rays haven't revealed any damage to the bone. I've an appointment to 7:45 in the morning on the 18th to have a specialist take a look at the joint, so I'll find out what happened them.
One thing this incident has made me do is think about my relationship to my body. I've been reminded forcefully that Cartesian dualism is false.
