Further MiSadventures of Quix and her Crew

[Quixotic1]

Hi, Team, I didn't expect to fall completely off the virtual ledge.  I was taking a break when my mom fell and broke her finger.  She wouldn't go into Urgent Care until it became clear that the finger was going to remain permanently pointing north.  So she agreed to go on Monday.  Well...not wanting to let a trip to Urgent Care go unenjoyed, Sunday I experiemented with blowing up a joint.  Many of you will remember that last summer I fell out of a rocking chair and fell gracefully onto my right ankle, thus rupturing all the medial ligaments.  This caused my joint to be unstable and I twisted it just right to get a spiral fracture of the fibula out of the experiment.  The injury healed uneventfully, but the orthopod was concerned about lingering instability in the ankle.  This didn't turn out to be a problem.

So, fast forward to now.  Things are going swimmingly, so to speak, a little dip into depression which has been an old chronic problem.  Sunday i was standing still at the counter in my bathroom.  I shifte my weight onto my right foot and lifted my left foot up to nudge a bottom drawer closed.  There was an instantaneous explosion of pain in my right ankle and it dropped me.  I fell backward and hit my head on the tile floor.  Just hard enough to get a sympathy-worthy goose-egg, but not hard enough to shake my ancestors.

So, I'm lying with my head under my sink, crying because my jaw hurts.  Why my jaw, you ask?  God only knows,  it wasn't involved with the fall - my goose-egg is on the back of my head.  I am aware of the pain in my ankle and head, but wollering about the spasm in my jaw.  The crew shows up on the scene .  One by one each cat shows up to sniff my face and express concern.  They really are empathetic.  No raccoons deigned to express their well-wishes.  This  may be reflected in their rations, we'll see.

Every disaster teaches us something, I suppose.  I now know that my right ankle is not trustworthy.  I know that the contractor did a very neat job installing my sink and I know that my water filter is ka-put.  All useful knowledge.
And as I rolled over to try to get to my feet without bearing weight on a rapidly swelling ankle, I found the missing mouse carcass in the floor of the shower. Actually came face to face with the little guy.   It was fresh, and I think one of the cats brought it in to raise my spirits.

So mother and I were seen on a Two-fer in Urgent care.  Her finger is nicely shattered and will have to be rebroken and set.  My ankle - aside from looking like a small pumpikn - looks fine.  I am scheduled to see the same ortho guy on Friday.  It isn't the same injury as July.  It swelled differently and hurts way more.  The pain is a sickening kind of pain and not just the usual "injury" pain of a strain or sprain.  Last July the question was whether I needed to had the ankle stabilized with a pair of screws.  We were able to avoid it.  I have a sinking feeling that now I am about to be really screwed.

So, again I am too loopy to post or get much knitting done.  I will begin dropping in here to get my mojo back.  My posting is slower with the laptop, cause the keys are all in the wrong places.  I am back under the order for "No gatuitous walking."

My sense of humor has taken a powder.  We're hoping it is a brief hiatus.

Love you guys.  Take care of each other.

Quix, Clyde, Abby, Trax, Tony and Fizzy

[luvnGod]

You are a hoot and so positive when things seems to be pummeling you! Thank you for all you do for this community.  I have greatly enjoyed and found comfort in your posts and info on the health pages!!  I will keep you and your family in my prayers.

Blessings!

[Sumanadevii]

Thank you, Santa for sharing the magic of Christmas!!!!!!!

[supermum_ms]

Well look who finally got out of hybornation, missed you heaps!!

TN isn't funny, something i've not had the pleasure and will happily not have the pleasure lol closest i can relate was cracking a tooth straight down the middle to the root/nerve, that was bad enough, the thought of TN just makes me cringe, ouch!

How are the racoons, still helping out with the washing? What about the cats, have they improved with their knitting skills, hope they finished that sweater. lol

Cheers..........JJ

[Quixotic1]

I really did fall of the edge this time.  Clearly I needed the vacation.  Have you all been good or do I need to whip everyone back into shape?

My saga has continued.  The ankle never healed and I got an MRI.  However, the gods of irony decided that the morning of the MRI they would take away the pain, and I had an essentially painless and normal ankle MRI'd.  Of course, ALLLLL my tests are always normal.  Why should this be different?  I think the ankle injury was this.  I think the joint opened up and allowed some soft tissue and nerves to get caught between bones.  Then as I walked this tissue was impinged.  Finally as the swelling slowing went down, the tissue escaped and the pain with it.  It still is a little twingy, but slowly healing.

However, with all the limping, gimping and waddling, my back has been in and out of spasm.  Let me just say that I LOVE Flexeril.

The latest has been the arrival of Trigeminal Neuralgia on the other side.  It feels like someone is pummeling my lips, cheek and ear with a hammer, bruised and achey with waves of really severe pain.  The trigger is chewing and swallowing.  I am titrating up my carbamazepine and the clonazepam because the chewing muscles are in spasm most of the time.  I don't like it and was very willing to experience it all vicariously through Ren.  Pain meds here I come!

I hope to be seen back on the board soon.  Thank you to everyone that has sent messages.

Thank you to all of you that have kept the board healthy and vibrant.  You are the best!

Quix

[Siddy1]

Just caught up on some postings.  I so look forward to reading yours posts.  They are so hilarious I forget that you are describing real traumatic experiences.  I know they are debilitating as I have been there with the heavy metal in the foot thing.

The mental picture of our Quizzle eyeballing a dead mouse on the floor of the shower with 5 concerned cats running around is just too much.  That was my tonic for the day .I hope your mum's finger is now pointing in the right direction again.

Marcie

[suzsibs]

My dear, you really must slow down :o)
I'm pleased to hear Abby returned home, she was probably with the Raccoons and your knickers!
Hope Mum, Dad and you get sorted out soon.
Relieved to hear your ankle wasn't broken and your thinking thingy is still working even with an egg on it.
Take care of yourself
Suz