Look! It's a hole!
So, things were looking up. Despite being down in the dumps for a week, I finally got some cleaning accomplished Thursday, and then pockyxhopstix texted and asked if I wanted to do a photoshoot of her with some of the scarves I made (separate post to follow tomorrow). I said yes and we made plans for Friday afternoon.
I go an pick her up, then we headed to one of the local forest preserves. There we found a lake and everything. "This is perfect! This is awesome!" So, we park and head for the pond. I had my digital camera in hand, her digital camera in my pocket, and the Pentax SLR around my neck. I got a shot with the SLR and a couple with the digital, and then went to repose pockychopstix. As I headed towards her my left foot found an invisible hole and I fell forward, downhill, and landed chest and hands first, the SLR impeding itself in my chest. My leg throbbed (yes, that leg) and I couldn't breathe at first. When I finally got to my feet, breathing wasn't easy and my chest was already turning blue and purple, along with bleeding.
We went to the Immediate Care Center and they took x-rays of the foot, cleaned my chest and did those x-rays as well. After what felt like 500 x-rays they determined I had a sprained ankle, right across the bone on the side - bad ligaments! - and a chest contusion/abrasion. No hematoma, or bruised ribs, but they will be doublechecking the x-rays later. He wrote me a prescription for heavy duty ibruprofen and gave me a care sheet, and a tetanous booster shot, especially if I am going to.keep "climbing mountains to.get those shots." Doc doesn't know the half of it.
This is my camera that jammed between my chest and the ground lengthwise.
I picked up ointment for the abrasion, along with ice packs from Walgreens and headed back to the forest preserve because I am getting tired of once something looks positive the Universe decides to screw with it. We got some great shots, and pockychopstix kept hovering and scanning the ground like some Cyberwoman with a mission against holes in the Earth. But, now my whole body aches and I cannot get comfortable. I went home after the shoot, but I am still awake. My left arm is aching, my ankle is saying "screw you" and my chest hurts to lay down. *sigh* I am getting tired of the Universe messing with me.
One thing I will reiterate, 99% of the nurses and technicians I have had made the hospital or ER visit positive ones. Be nice to your nurse (unless they are that 1% evil one who can't even tell you how to pee in a cup when you say "I have never done this before, ever" and screws up your drug test and that company doesn't hire you).
The pretty pond we found. At least I didn't fly another ten feet and end up head first amongst the fishes.
Just a fun shot. Despite all this, pockychopstix can still make me smile.
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