Tonight, I was going to go to my first Knit Nite out with the girls in MONTHS. This morning, I walked up to the corner to catch my ride into work, and when I stepped from the street to the sidewalk, hit a patch of ice under the snow and BOOM! down I go. Blacked out briefly. Cars went by. Nice neighbour lady stops and helps me up, and back to my house (thank god), even so far as to take off my boots for me and make sure I was ok before she went to work (I hope she got in ok).
So I drag myself upstairs (thank god for good sturdy railings), get breakfast and anti-inflammatories into me right away, and up to bed. After a movie-pseudo-nap, assessed the damage:
- Left knee definitely sprained;
- Left ankle also sprained and size of a small football;
- Left hamstring badly strained;
- Lower back completely twisted;
- Left shoulder making weird popping noise, probably strained but not too painful;
- No headache so I guess no concussion;
- Slight numbness/tingling in a few fingertips (yeah, no gloves, stupid).
Checked my work email on the Blackberry and a certain executive is screaming about certain deadlines yadda yadda so it looks like I will be going in tomorrow with a bag of painkillers/anti-inflammatories and my crutches (conveniently still at hand since last year's RIGHT leg injury). I will be there, I will be productive, but dammit someone is going to be fetching my coffee and snacks for me!
The real pain in the butt about this is that I can't even blame it on the OC Transpo strike, because the spot where I fell I would have had to walk across to catch the bus, too. Dammit. Ok, time for some more painkillers and maybe some knitting. Might as well!
2 comments:
holy crapadoodles!
I hope that most of that pain / strain goes away soon!
Not nice. I hate a lot of winter, too. Hope everything heals quickly.
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