How is the pain today? I imagine you are horribly sore! Did you sleep well last night? Has all this aggravated your RA? I hope you are nice and comfy with loads of pillows and a laptop! I am sorry you are going to miss out on your dives. I don't dive but I love to snorkel! (Imagine snorkeling emoticon w/ tiny fins here)
Hee hee.. looks just like me!
I feel kinda like I went 20 rounds with a tumble dryer and look like I went 15 with Apollo Creed: even my bruises have bruises.
Actually, aside from a constant ache in my ankle and a catch in my ribs when I breathe deeply, I am OK. Last night was not the best night's sleep I have had, but not the worst either.
Yes, I do have a plethora of pillows of various shapes and sizes and a laptop, a 42 inch plasma monitor & a stack of movies, an assortment of trashy novels, plus a new Saveur magazine and a new prescription of oxycodone. I am all set! LOL.
Thanks for thinking of me!
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? I leave for the day and what do I come back to....this. I guess I'll have to read the other threads and find out. It sounds like you have all the important, most needed "things" to help you out. I'm going to go read the other threads now. Hugs, LindyI was wondering the same thing...but I have NO idea which thread to start on.
It sounds like you're set, Shug. I hope you recover quickly from your run in with a rogue circus elephant!
(just a guess)I've been around and I don't know what happened. It sounds nasty, whatever it was. Hope you feel better soon.'Cuz it's easier to C&P than type...from Waddie's cellulitis thread:
[quote=Spelunker]I had a 9:30 AM appoint this morning with the podiatrist. I arrived in
time to find a parking place and hike across the acre of black top.
Just before I got to the sidewalk leading to the doctors door a
delivery truck literally careened around the corner and in my anxiety
to get out of the way of that truck bearing down on me I tried to
scurry along and ended up tripping over a cement bumper and falling like that proverbial ton of bricks.
The upshot: I have a fractured left lateral ankle, two metatarsal fractures, a very tender left ribcage, shoulder, and arm.
I am in a Cam-walker and have been confined to sitting with my leg elevated.
Some days everything you do turns to gold, other days...[/quote]
Good Grief girl! You would'a faired better with the elephant! In the epic battle of "person vs cement", "person" has never won.. EVER.
And the irony of breaking your foot on the way to the podiatrist... Its breathtaking!
I wish you the speediest healing Shug. And if I were you, I'd stay away from the gynecologist for a while. Who knows WHAT could happen to you on the way there....
(So many different scenerios in my mind on just how Jack fell on that candlestick.)
I am sorry to hear of your accident, Shug. Probably would have been better to let the delivery truck hit you, at least you could have probably gotten some money out of it.
I hate walking across parking lots. I feel like the people waiting for me to cross that little stretch of crosswalk, that normally takes people a few seconds to cross, would just LOVE to run me over to hurry up and get me out of their way of getting that parking space 10 cars down from the entrance LMAO! I mean it takes me anywhere from 1-2 mins to get across the crosswalk area in front of wal-mart and that is me hurrying.
OMG - In a split second your whole freakin' life spins out of control. I'm so sorry. I'm not laughing at you Shug, but at Leila, Snow, and Joonie.....the visuals!!
What did the orthopod say about time frame for healing? It sounds like it's going to be a slow process with the bones that are broken. ((((((Shug)))))) Lindy
oh my!! Shug!! I had to search out what happened!! it was hidden deep in another person's thread... nothing like letting us know!!
I am SO sorry my friend... I wish you quick healing and getting back to your diving and other activities...
Yikes! You have my total sympathy. Reminds me of the time I got a corneal abrasion while playing with the boys. OMG the pain was intense. Of course, it was on a Saturday, so I had to go to urgent care to get it looked at. They checked it out, gave me antibiotic eye drops and a script for vicodin. Well that didn't even begin to touch the pain (this coming from the woman who drove herself home from the hospital 6 hours after an appendectomy and was carrying laundry and toddlers a few days later). Next stop, the ER (urgent care couldn't give anything stronger than vicodin), where I received a shot of dialaudid and a script for percocet. Wonderful stuff! I finally had pain relief. Unfortunately I no longer had the ability to walk in a straight line... I tripped over absolutely nothing and fell head-first into a table. Back to the ER again, to receive over 30 stitches in my forehead. And no more pain meds, as I now had a concussion to go along with the corneal abrasion.
Shug... how awful! Did people rush over to help you? Call 911?
Here's another falling story that could've been very disastrous.
One day when in their 80s, my folks had a falling incident in the parking lot in front of their favorite donut shop. What happened was, they parked in a space with black ice... that invisible slippery ice. Usually, Mom waited for her gentleman husband to come around and assist her out of the car. For some reason, that day she just opened the car door and got out on her own. They each got out at the same time and each slipped on the ice and fell! Lying there, Mom wondered what was taking Dad so long to come to her aid until she turned her head to look under the car, and saw him lying on the ground too! Thank goodness the shop manager and another parking lot customer ran over to help the poor elderly couple and call 911. Neither broke a bone but they were so bruised and abrased they looked just awful. Despite survival instincts, Mom didn't even put her hands out to break her fall... she simply fell flat on her face, right on her nose! They healed just fine but they were always very careful when getting out of the car after that... and of course if Dad was there, Mom didn't dare even open the door by herself. She did drive on her own too so had to remember to do that.
CathyMarie
[QUOTE=CathyMarie]Shug... how awful! Did people rush over to help you? Call 911?[/QUOTE]
Nope. I had my mobile in my pocket and once I had caught my breath, called the doctor's office and asked for help. In short order I had help from the podiatrist's office (oh yes Leila, I too saw the irony and will certainly take your sage counsel re: the gynecologist! !LOL!).
[quote=joonie]Probably would have been better to let the delivery truck hit you, at least you could have probably gotten some money out of it.[/quote]
Or been smashed all over the stainless steel grill like a bug!
SnowOwl...ah, gee, ummh, thanks for the visual re: the proctologist. Thanks everyone....
[QUOTE=Spelunker]
[quote=joonie]Probably would have been better to let the delivery truck hit you, at least you could have probably gotten some money out of it.[/quote]
Or been smashed all over the stainless steel grill like a bug!
[/QUOTE]
Well... there is that too.
What was the last thing that went thru the bugs head before splattering on the windshield? "Oh".... sh*t.
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joonie2009-04-23 11:32:46Oh my- I'm late to say I hope you are feeling better Shug! And oh what a bunch of laughs I got from all these stories!
[QUOTE=joonie]
When a bug splatters on our windshield Hubby & I will yell "Oh sh*t!" Then hubby has to say.... "You know what the last thing that went thru that bug head was?" I will ignore him, and then I will say "his butt!" Hubby will say "Close enough... but it was sh*t."
I am telling ya... after being with someone for over 10 years, you do begin to think like them. LOL!
Our wal-mart smells like donuts!
I wish we had another store around here to go to. I am starting to dislike wal-mart. They never have what I am looking for.
Like some time last month... I wanted some Twinkies. I looked for them, hubby looked for them and they had none! Hubby went back again a day later, and still no Twinkies! It does not help that they are rearranging the store.
Then some time last week... we went in there, and we went down the aisle with the snack cakes and there they were FINALLY! TWINKIES!! I said "LOOK!!! LOOK!! They have TWINKIES again!!" Hubby said "Well get them." I said "NO! They did not have them when I wanted them, and I am not going to pay .00 a box for them either! What happened to them being .50?!" Hubby said "50 cents more is nothing. If you want them get them." I said "NO! I refuse to buy overpriced Twinkies! That were not here when I wanted them the first go around!" Hubby said "Well... then you will be hungry for them later and I will have to hear you talking about how you should have bought the Twinkies!" I said "NO! Because those overpriced Twinkies... will cause me to get fatter. But you are right I will be looking for something sweet to snack on later and then I will be running around the house like a crazy sugar fiend looking for something sweet and then resort to my sugar sandwiches!" Hubby said "Last chance!" I said "No."
Sorry about the spill Shug, but I have to ask you, "Did you look around to see who saw you fall?" I find it so embarrassing and that is the first thing I do. Then I check for damage.
Healing Hugs to you!
Shug, I have a feeling that you're really sore and a little pi##ed off today. Reality has set in and the pain has rooted. Just reread the thread and chuckle again.
Two years ago we were returning from Mexico and stopped in a Pemex (gas) station. When we pulled into the station my DH pulled up beside a cattle truck. We were tired and didn't pay any attention to where we parked. He jumped out and ran into the RV to use the bathroom.
I wasn't moving well because of a flare so I slid slowly out of the truck and was walking in front of the cattle truck when I tripped and fell on an oiled rock blacktop. I fell forward; jammed my arms several inches into my shoulders; my legs and hands were bloody; and about 8 of our friends were standing around me when Stan came out of the RV. Everyone was afraid to help me, so they all stood there looking down at me with horror on their faces. Poor DH saw my bloodied body laying there and all of our friends standing around looking horrified- he thought that the cattle truck had hit me!!
He ran over and after a second or two realized I was ok. They helped me to my feet, nothing was broken or sprained but I looked like I had been hit by the cattle truck. He asked me what happened and I told him that my sandals tripped me. This was the 3rd fall that I blamed on the same sandals. He helped me into the truck and ripped my sandals off my feet and threw them across the parking lot about the time one of the other truck drivers walked out from beside his truck. My sandals went whizzing by his head and under his truck. He very calmly bent over picked up my sandals and put them in his truck.
I think that DH and I are now a legend in Mexico. I have visions of the Mexican truckers sitting around telling stories about gringos and DH and I are the stars in their stories. I still have the scars on my knees and I haven't fallen since he threw my sandals away. Lindy
oh LinB.. somehow I think any day with you is an adventure!!
so.... how ARE YOU, today, Shug?
[QUOTE=SnowOwl]Shug I wasn't laughing at you, that's just the way my mind jumps, I diffuse pain and fear with laughter when I can, it wasn't at your expense. [/QUOTE]
I realized that, truly I did, and I certainly appreciated the humour. Believe it or not, I do have a sense of humour! at least I am not goo on the bumper of a truck or orange circles in the parking lot!We KNOW you have a sense of humor Shug! If we thought otherwise, you would have gotten the standard 'Oh, I'm so sorry. Feel better soon'. I think good natured teasing is really a form of affection (but I was dropped on my head as a child... so what do I know?)
I do hope you can turn down the volume on your personal symphony soon!
Lin..I agree with Babs. You are a an adventure! I so love hearing your stories.Shug, I am sorry you now have hit by truck syndrome! You poor, battered thing! I hope you can at least enjoy cocktail hour or have something to help with the pain. I figure you have about 24 more hours of hit by truck syndrome, then you will start to get tired of being still, yeah?
Hummmmmmm.... healing thoughts...healing thoughts......for you.
I think I remember when LinB fell a couple of times because of those sandles! I think I remember her posting about it anyways. But my brain is not so good, and I don't trust my own rememories.
I am sorry you are feeling even worse, Shug. I hope it gets better for you really soon. Soon you will be running around splattering bugs with a flyswatter, and yelling SHOOOFLIES DON"T BOTHER ME!!! Summer time and the flies will be out and about!
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