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

[twist330]

Ok just picking myself up.

How are we meant to feel sorry for you when we are rolling round the floor in laughter.

My 3 cats are giving me the oldest looks!

take it easy
twiist

[jensequitur]

Oh, bummer!  It's hard enough to put up with 'the disease' without having this other stuff to deal with as well.  Hey, take care of yourself, and watch out for those blood clots - with your inactivity and a fresh injury, you might be at risk.

[Mike_Shuswap]

So....are you gonna get a new water filter? :o)

Mike

[meg321]

Your humor has not taken a powder at all...but I do understand you must feel lousy.
This is the 'humor' that gets us thru all of this...

and what is all this talk about getting screwed? LOL

get better, Quix, you are certainly loved here

meg

[Sparkysarah]

The water metaphors keep floating in and just hope that the sinking feeling disappears and that it is not too long before you can set sail again.

So so very sorry to hear of all your woes, and as always you allow us all to read your story with the humour that makes us all smile...but tinged with the sadness that you truly do not deserve to be going though all this again. I was just imagining you and your Mum being treated together and I am sure that you both had to see the funny side and hope that the hospital staff looked after you well.

Hope you don't need the nuts and bolts and tell the cats to leave their prey outside

Love hugs and much sympathy

Sarah xxx

[rendean]

Dear Quix,

Sorry to hear about your latest adventures. As for your relationship with the floor, if you didn't live out of state I'd swear my floor was cheating on me with you.

I'm sure you feel miserable at this point and I have a feeling you're going to get screwed on top of everything else.

Sending warm, gentle hugs for a quick recovery and hoping things go more smoothly for you.

Ren