is totally beyond me??????????????????????????????????
Yes you read it correctly, i broke my ankle!
Yesterday, after my appointment with the Oncologist, Ray and I decided to drive down to the medical claims centre to claim a rebate on a bill.
To get to the calims office we had to walk through the food hall (eatery), never a wise move at lunch time!
Anyway, i felt the heal of my shoe step on something, other than leather, but too late to save myself, the deed was done and down i went. My right leg out to the left of me, my left leg buckled underneath me and poor Ray standing above me with a look of absolute horror on his face as he was helpless to prevent it happening.
6 hours later, we arrived home with a new pair of crutches, my right leg in a temporary plaster from knee to toes, my left knee bruised & all down my right side and in absolute agony from waist to toes both sides of my poor jarred body.
So i am now laid up as I have to keep my right leg elevated until I go back on Monday and get a permanent plaster put on.
Isn't life just wonderful? NOT!!!!
I'm so annoyed, as Ray and I had planned to take his 3 Grandsons to Sydney's Royal Easter Show tomorrow.
It was meant as a "mending bridges" day between his daughter and us.
So what is the message here?
Every time we plan an outing with Ray's daughter and her family, something bad always happens to prevent it happening and it always looks like it's my fault!!! I was so looking forward to taking the boys to the show, I haven't been myself in ten years so it was going to be a very special day.
I'm beginning to think there is a greater force at work here that doesn't want us to achieve extended family harmony, but why and for how much longer I don't know.
OH well, Eventually the big picture is bound to be revealed to us, in the meantime I'll spend my days catching up on my computer work using my laptop.
Please no emails to my private address as I can't sit at my pc, sorry.
hugs n roses to one and all, Meg
melide_menschen@yahoo.com.au
Love and blessings to you Chris
BUT HEY!!!!! It's not going to stop me, Ray said we will hire a motorised wheelchair and he will make sure I finish the walk, he knows how much it means to me.
It just means I won't also need to do the walk for life, the week before, to get some practice. LOL!!!
Believe me, I WILL finish the walk, albeit not on my own two feet!!! <<<VBG>>>
Thank you all for making me see the light, I think you're all right-on with your advices, on all counts. When the time is right everything will improve and hopefully, in the main problem area, it will be 'REAL' and not just more show for Dad's benefit.
hugs n love, M
I'll enjoy the ride. LOL!!!!
Had a cast a few years ago...was a pain in the you know what, but it was a fiberglass type of cast, very light weight and tough and it came in colors !!!! WOO HOO...yup colors....at the time I did a nice forest green...a few of my girlfriends "decorated it" with holiday stuff... it was during the holiday season. I had fallen off the ladder putting up lights in the front of the house....(only fell 3 feet as I was coming down the ladder...missed the last step..it was a doosey) ...I got alot of comments and it became a joke about what to wear on the cast...like cast jewelry...OMG...a new business venture...cast jewelry !!!!!
So maybe IF you have the same procedures down under you might ask for a PINK one. Now that would be spiffy !!!! Perhaps attach a strand of pearls and some lace.....
Can you do any machine embroidery? Perhaps you might adorn the cast with FSL pink ribbons or fill a basket with ribbons and zoom around the walk and hand out reminder pink ribbons. Don't be down about this...I know is stinks, but have some fun, relax and let your body heal.
Big hugs,
Missey
It certainly should be easier once I get the full cast on as the doctor did say it would be lightweight and the backslab i have now weighs a ton. I'm getting plenty of exercise just carrying it around!!! LOL!!!
I once broke my big toe and the next three when I dropped my bowling ball on my foot, talk about pain, sheesh, that was the most painfilled night i can ever remember having.
Strange, before that I had never broken a bone, but since then I've also broken my right hand in three places, now my ankle.
Just goes to show, even with excellent bone density, you're not immune to broken bones if the accident is bad enough.
I hope you avoid ladders these days!
hugs n roses, M
There is a special day set aside for you when you will be rewarded for all your loses, all you had to suffer and indure. Keep your chin up, that's the only way to keep looking up!
God bless him, he tries so hard, but you've got me pegged, strong willed, and very impatient with my new limitations. I promise I'll be gentler with him tomorrow. The pain in my ankle is easing but I wish I could use someone else's left hip and leg, they are killing me and my butt is so sore!!! LOL!!!
hugs n love, M
Now for the other stuff: I am not normally a litigious person, but any company, government office, etc. that you have to walk thru a food hall to get to should be sued. That's the darnedest setup I ever heard in my life!! Let's see, "Medical Claims Centre", that would mean SICK people, not healthy 20-year-old Crocodile Dundees, right? People who are ill or disabled having to negotiate floors that may be slippery with spilled food or drink is absoultely dumb, and if nothing else you should sue them for 'dumbness'. That's just plain a health hazard, and one that can be avoided by placing an entrance somewhere else. I truly truly would contact a lawyer about this, Meganne. That physical setup is what we in the USA call "an accident waiting to happen", and boy did it ever happen to you!! I'm not a person who's out for money like that, if I twist my ankle on the public sidewalk in front of a shop, I'm not going after the shopkeeper because he didn't rip up the sidewalk and replace it at his expense. But darn, the thought process that placed this office entrance through a FOOD hall eludes me. Sue for stupidity, definitely. Get some good out of it, girl, and maybe you'll save some other poor soul an even worse fall! Love you, Marji
I'm assuming there was another entrance but Ray was leading the way and I think he chose the quickest way to get there. Yes, I just asked him, he doesn't know how to find the other entrance to that level so he went the only way he knew.
It certainly doesn't make any sense to have the medical claims offices on the lower ground floor, they should be at street level and easily accessable.
I have seriously been thinking of seeing a solicitor as the pain and suffering and being out of action for six weeks is more than inconvenient, it's a downright burden.
Trying to get to the loo is a major exercise and having a shower, well, let's just say, i've quickly given up trying to preserve my dignity!!! LOL!!
I never realised how long the hall way is and how difficult it is reaching up to the top cupboards while balancing on crutches and one leg, and that leg/hip is my bad one, I've had knee surgery and was supposed to have surgery on my hip but have been postponing it for years. It's such a challenge getting myself around that I just can't face it right now.
One thing I'm sure of, when all this is over I'm seriously going to lose the extra pounds I'm carrying, they just make it all so much harder. LOL!!!!
hugs n love, M
hugs n love, M
I'll do the walk in style, riding, and enjoying the view, but believe me I will do it because I said I will and I always do what i say I am going to, as long as I don't forget before i do it!!!! hahahahaha!!!!
I think I would have preferred being whapped over the head to breaking my ankle, my head's pretty thick!!! LOL!
But you're right, physically, I'm getting a bit weaker with every chemo treatment, so I was concerned I wouldn't do the whole walk and our plan was to hire a wheelchair and when I got too tired Ray was going to push me. It just means now we'll hire a motorised one and Ray will have to keep up with me instead. :-)
hugs n love, M
Sam :)
Actually I thought all my trouble started when my first husband died, he was so posessive he always swore he would come back and get me if he died first and i think, since he can't, he's doing all he can to try and make my existence as miserable as his was!!!! LOL!!!! I'm just not game to say this out loud in case it's true?????
I think my luck is about to change again, I've had my five down years and I really think I've answered all the tests and come through all the challenges with an even more positive attitude than when it all started going awry. Surely there has to be a turning point?
I just had a lightbulb moment!!!
Maybe I've been too positive and the powers that be may be thinking it all hasn't been hurting me???
Maybe I should start being miserable and feeling sorry for myself and start whinging really loudly that i've had enough ??? Nah! Not my style, I love to laugh too much.
hugs n love dear friend. M
I read, & answered, your PM and am so pleased about your son, tell him to hold a pillow, against him, as tightly as he can whenever he needs to cough, it really helps.
I have no choice now but to rest, at least until I get the full cast on my ankle on Monday. My butt is going to be way sore by then, all this laying around in bed is not what it's cracked up to be!!! LOL!
Please take care, my prayers will be with you.
hnr, M
Hugs.
I will be sending lots of positive thoughts your direction especially on Sunday as you 'ride like a lady' (I hope) on your walk.
Take care of yourself and rest as much as you need to. Blessings.
Lianne