Failure

No one likes failure do they? Well I've had a double whammy of it over the past couple of days, yes lucky me! First off my right elbow, I'll give you an update; yesterday I was very brave and went to see the Pharmacist in Boots. I explained to her the symptoms and how I think it occurred to which she advised I'd strained the muscles around my elbow. She gave me some super-strength ibuprofen gel to rub into the affected area and some pain killers to help with the pain. I was kind of dubious to be honest, she didn't inspect my elbow or nothing, how does she know what it is without having a look I thought. 

I guess she was right though, after two days of applying the gel my elbow is less painful and I can pretty much straighten it; the pain killers I did without - I don't like taking them unnecessarily and as the pain wasn't excruciating I didn't see the point. But I have the best swelling I've ever seen around my elbow, I'm seriously proud of it, it looks awesome; I've tried taking a photo of it to show you all on here but it doesn't show it very well. On the subject of swellings Mr Cute, oh-baby-you're-all-mine, will be with me shortly and I'm certain he'll be impressed with my swelling - I'm sure he'll gain much enjoyment from touching and stroking it! Girlfriend said I should keep moving my elbow to help ease it up, advice which I scoffed at at the time but tonight just for you girlfriend I will follow such advice. And why does everyone suddenly become Quincy MD when you're suffering an injury? I don't understand it, all my friends suddenly revealing themselves as closet doctors and giving their advice on the best ways to get better; just so surreal. 

Back to failure, I've been struggling some to apply the ibuprofen gel to my elbow, particularly yesterday when it was still painful and difficult to move. I was hoping someone would help me out in applying the gel, to save me from my obvious difficulties - my girlfriend for example. Despite me putting on a brave face and working through the pain barrier not once did she offer to help me. She had the perfect opportunity to undress me and nurse and nurture me back to full health; to prove what a nice and caring girlfriend she is, but nothing! I mean surely the thought of me allowing her to undress me would be incentive enough? To look, feel and touch my naked body; to rub my swelling until it went down is an offer not to be missed right? Wrong - failure number one. Perhaps my failing was to perceive straight relationships the same as gay ones; I guess girls are not as easy as guys!

To add insult to injury my boyfriend and I did our very best to wind girlfriend up last night with the comments posted on one of my earlier posts, I think it's the one entitled "Ten-men." Posting comments about forgetting her birthday and not been able to afford to buy her a present and the like. The prank took a lot of planning and effort it didn't just happen off the cuff and a great deal of time was invested in it. We thought the pay-off would be quite spectacular, very funny and worth the effort involved; we were certain we'd get a reaction from girlfriend. Guess what? Yes, nothing again - girlfriend did not even read the blog last night, she'd not even read it by the time I gave her our present this afternoon; by which time it was apparent that the whole thing was indeed a wind up.  Worthless, once again just total and utter failure.

There's a familiar thread running through this post that's just occurred to me; both posts involve girlfriend, so I guess there must be a moral here, a lesson to be learned....................

Unless you like the taste of failure DON'T MESS WITH GIRLFRIEND!