June 2007
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Shiner part II
Posted by squirrley on 11 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: home
I’ve never had a black eye, or at least as far back as I remember. My mom’s advice was to keep the eye elevated–which seemed self-evident, given that the eye is in my head which is usually at the top of my body. But I realize now that I also have to sleep with two or three pillows. And I can’t do yoga. Even bending down to undo my bike lock was a bit too much blood flow to the tumescent eyeball (! I like that word. It just means ’swelling’, but it sounds grotesque, suggestive of green and blue and orange bruising and turgid, pulpy flesh). So downward dog is out of the question.
Luckily, the yogis have a taboo against ‘inversions’ for menstruating women. They believe that to put the head below the heart or the heart below the pelvis inhibits the natural monthly flushing of the nether regions. I don’t know about this, but avoiding inversions is a sure-fire way to keep the head elevated above the heart. Hence my yoga DVD will be set on the “Practise for Menstruation” workout for the next while.