A slight pause

[gwyn]

Today I slipped on black ice that some fuckwad didn't mark or try to do anything with, while I walked Ginny. I don't know if I broke my thumb or just sprained it really bad, but it hurts a lot to type. My knee is all bloody and banged up, and my ankle and left butt bone got really hammered, and I think I twisted my arm, too, because it really hurts. It's kind of amazing that I didn't crack my skull open. Really, I want to go back to their house and knock on their door and tell them I'm suing them -- the water had run down from their garden onto the sidewalk so it's their responsibility (and who fucking waters their lawn in the dead of winter when it's 27 degrees out?). At least I was able to warn a woman coming down the same street with her dog. Also, you know what really sucks? Walking 20 minutes back to your house, bloody and bruised and with wet pants from the ice, in 31 degree cold.

So I'l have to do today's question tomorrow.

I'm enjoying the hell out of this meme, though -- I may not comment on everyone's entries, but I'm reading them all and truly enjoying them all.

Also, there are still lots of days open at the end of the month, so if you have a question, you can add it here.

Comments

[umbo]

Ah, man, that sucks.

*hugs*

[gwyn]

Thanks. ::hugs you back::

[nagasvoice]

Hope you're feeling better, not too sore, today.

[gwyn]

Definitely a bit better, but I keep landing on my knee, which is not helping! I hate being this much of a klutz.

[nagasvoice]

Ouch on that. Hope you can dodge more issues with it. I kind of torqued mine mysteriously yesterday, maybe going down steps that are too narrow (transit steps, too, what were they thinking!??) so it feels odd, like it's slightly over-extending, and I'm trying to be careful with it. (Yea, I know, good luck with that.)

[dine]

oh man, that's just no fun. I hope you're feeling better soon! (I'd totally tell them they're liable - that's just plain stupid in this weather)

[gwyn]

Thanks. Yeah, I really, really wanted to scream at them. But now everything's melting, and I forgot to take a picture of it...so.

[minim_calibre]

OUCH. Even if you just sprained it, that's still a painful, horrible, no good very bad thing.

[gwyn]

You know, I am completely convinced that sprains are far worse than breaks. They've always hurt way worse than my broken bones.

[gattagrigia]

Ouch! I hope your injuries heal quickly. Ice works on the bruises. I know how it feels: a couple of weeks ago I got off the bus at the wrong stop southbound on Westlake Ave N, just after the Aurora bridge. I had to cross the street, so I waited for a gap in the traffic. As I crossed too quickly, I fell hard on my knees in the middle of Westlake, but managed to crawl to the curb before a car sped around the curve (people usually drive 40mph there). The damn cane didn't help at all, and I bruised my hands too. I was badly shaken; I've fallen a lot in my life but it hurts more of me now than it used to. Then I walked a half mile to my destination, managing not to fall again. My knees were bloody, scraped, gouged and bruised. I guess I'm lucky, because I know a couple of women my age who have fallen and broken bones. Next time I'll pay better attention to the bus stops, that's for sure.

[gwyn]

What the heck?! Why are you busing places like that? Make John take you!

[van]

OMG, you're going to the doctor, right? Just to be sure nothing is broken? I hope it's just a couple of bruises and you'll heal up quick.

[gwyn]

You know, it's so expensive to go to the doctor, unless I have some conviction that there's something worse than just sprains, bruises, and pulls, I can't really justify it. I don't know if it'll be different with the ACA, but I doubt it. When you're a freelancer, it just sucks.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

*Hugs*

That's awful. Hope you feel much better really soon.

*Hugs*

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you -- I am just basically the clumsiest, most disaster prone person on earth.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, I hope you feel better soon.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. Man, I cannot afford to have a nonworking hand with Yuletide and Festivids coming up.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Oh no that's terrible! I'm so sorry to hear that!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Hey, I totally forgot to set up a tea time with you! I figure we're looking at the NY unless possibly the week between Xmas and NY's, and I do have enough tea to last till then. ;-)

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Yeah it'll have to be the new year! We're leaving for our holiday trip tomorrow so things are busy here. :) But DEFINITELY in January!!

[fishsanwitt]

You poor thing. I hope you feel better soon.

I hate black ice.