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April 27, 2007
It fucking figures
I've been planning this trip to upstate NY with Eldest's troop for over a year. A YEAR.. Well, today, we are having a pretty bad rainy day - it rains hard for 20 minutes.. stops for 10, then starts to drizzle again.
I arranged to have both girls dismissed early and picked them both up from school. When I pulled ino our driveway, around 1pm, it had just started to rain harder so we all jumped out of the car and raced up to the front door. As I quickly stepped up onto my front porch, I felt my left foot slip and twist as I fell off my porch.
Fell OFF my porch.
Thank you God - I fell in the ONE place that was totally safe to land. BUT, my poor ankle, well, that's not doing so well. Did I mentio that the troop and I are leaving at 4pm today?
I think I scared the crap out of the girls because after I fell, I just lay there on the ground, fighting the urge to vomit from the pain. I had broken out into a cold sweat while trying to get up and all I kept saying was "please don't be broken. Please don't be broken."
It's not broken - just badly sprained. Did I also mention that I was planning on going horseback riding too? Yeah, we'll see what happens tomorrow. Looks like I will be riding in the back of my friend's Yukon and will have the whole seat for me and my big bag of ice. Thank goodness my Mom was able to come over right away and Husband was just leaving work early to help us out and drive Eldest and I to our meeting spot.
God, I am so pathetic.
I'm going on the trip. I can stand on my leg but I will be using a cane to walk. Christ almighty... I don't need this today!!
Wish me luck - I'm going to need it!
Posted by Cate at April 27, 2007 03:05 PM
Comments
Ouch! Try and take it easy on yourself. :(
Posted by: kat at April 27, 2007 04:06 PM
I heard putting a tennis ball on the end is very fashionable.
Posted by: Katy at April 27, 2007 05:04 PM
Owie! Keep icing and aking anti-inflammatories!! How you manage to have a god time. Hugs!
Posted by: Kathy at April 28, 2007 10:13 AM
Bummer.
Good luck on the trip. Have a good time.
Posted by: cassie-b at April 28, 2007 06:40 PM
Hope you are feeling better... and where in NY did you go?
Posted by: Adelle at April 28, 2007 07:41 PM
I suppose this would be a bad time to say "have a nice trip," eh?
Hope you're feeling better!
Posted by: zonker at April 28, 2007 09:39 PM
She gets her gracefulness honestly...It's a shame she didn't metion this is the 3rd time for this ankle...Good thing I've an orthopedic equipment outlet in my basement...
Posted by: The Mom at April 28, 2007 11:08 PM
Holy crap......first of all, I hope you feel better, ASAP, and secondly, the item I wanted to comment on...the whole breaking out into a sweat / Please, God, don't let me vomit thing....I think that's what happens when we go into "A State of Shock."
A few years ago I sprained my ankle, BADLY, crossing 23rd Street between 5th & 6th avenues in the city, and the whole swollen as a beachball, purple as Barney thing happened to me, too.
So, graceful NY'er that I am, I hopped across the street to the donut shop, sat in a chair, fought the urge to cry, broke out into a sweat and almost barfed everywhere.
Sorry to say, you will never flippantly walk across bumpy cobblestone ever again. Your mind will always be on guard with regards to that ankle.
Good luck.
Posted by: Erica at May 2, 2007 09:15 AM
oh my.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at May 4, 2007 10:43 AM
