I should know better than to do something as stupid as straightening up, cleaning, organizing - somehow it manages to backfire on me.
Last Saturday I was putting some items away in my bedroom closet, after procrastinating about it for too long. I have a large walk-in closet in my bedroom, that has double sliding mirrored doors. I had tossed a stack of x-ray films in there on the floor just a week or so before - just until I could figure the proper way to recycle them. Well - I walked into the closet - stepped on the stack of films, and went into a skid. It's amazing how fast one's mind can work in an emergency situation - mine went into overdrive!!! On my way falling down, all I could think of was - my head is NOT going to go thru that mirror - so I put my arm out to protect myself in my landing. Better to break my arm or wrist, than to have my head go thru the mirror, and the possible very nasty results that would follow. So my elbow hit the door, and then my hand slammed down on to the adjusting hardware (rather sharp metal) that is at the inside bottom corner of the door. BIG MESSY OUCH!! It ripped the side of my hand open all the way to the bone - a very jagged and nasty laceration - just below my little finger. My hand looked like chopped steak, and the floor and inside mirror looked like a massacre had taken place. It took what seemed like forever (and a half roll of paper towels) to get the bleeding stopped enough that I could wrap it and drive myself to the walk-in medical clinic in town. Five stitches and a couple of hours later, I was on my way back home. Thank goodness where the laceration is, is not a really "meaty" portion of the hand, but of course the location of it is in an area that is constantly getting bumped, etc. I've kept it covered and padded so that it doesn't take too much abuse. I go back Monday or Tuesday to have the stitches out - tho the one side still hasn't healed properly. Hope I don't have to have that portion re-stitched - the Novocaine injections before the stitching were the worst part of the whole event!!!!
So that's what I've been up to this past week. Could someone out there please send me some peace and tranquility??? PLEASE.........
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Impaired balance from the cervical spine injury and surgery, doesn't help matters either.......
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