Toss the crutches
Official word today from the ortho: nothing's broken, just some bruised bones. That becomes evident if I try to bend the knee.
But I can walk fairly well and I'll be able to go to Bristol in 3 weeks and that makes me
I did have an argument with the office manager there about the referral. She wanted a piece of paper-my doctor said it's all 'electronic'. I said give me your fax number and I'll see if she will call me back and fax it. She said she couldn't give me the fax number, only to my doctor....
Then find out they're not connected to the internet, where they would have been able to pull up all the info they needed regarding the referral. WTF?
So I sat waiting for over an hour while this backwards place tried calling the insurance company to verify my referral....Once I finish with the follow-up, I'm not ever going back there.

I'm tickled pink! I wrote my column for Cycle Connections and decided to submit a write-up about a recent charity run. The run made cover!!!! Cycle Connections - Online Motorcycle Magazine
21st Annual Gooch's Garlic Run
And my column: Girl, Put Your Pants On!

I can't freakin master crutches...I'm a lefty, even in walking and my left leg, the one that's injured, won't let the right do the work. I tried using them to go up stairs and stumbled on the top step.
Don stopped by with a shower seat and offered to take my daughter to her friend's-on the bike. At the end of the street, she was too scared to continue, so he took her in my car. Art least I don't have to worry about her dating biker dudes
Monday I go to the ortho and I am really hoping there's no break. Consensus seems to be that the radiologist knows better than the PA so nothing's fractured. But she swears she saw it.
I had to change the bandage and my knee is a lovely shade of purple surrounding an oval of extreme bloody rawness. I thought of taking pictures-maybe tomorrow but I won't post them, they'd just be for kicks after this is over with.
I was given a script for Percoset and although I'm not in any real pain, filled it anyway. Never turn down good...

One giant headache for everyone else.

While off from work, we are to take turns going to the studio and check phone messages and emails. Today was my turn and, since Don works just 5 minutes away and, since his son and daughter-in-law would be visiting for a week, we made plans to meet at the office and have lunch and some alone time.

After I did the office stuff, I took my camera and went into the gardens to shoot some photos( I found a great new trick to try and was anxious to try it on the flowers).

After a couple of shots I turned to leave and tripped over a flowerpot. I did a face plant into the garden, landing square onto my left knee. The camera went flying.

I couldn't move my leg. It hurt like...well, I don't know what it was like, but, convinced I'd broken my knee, I had Don call the rescue squad. The dispatcher fucked up the call and he had to call again-we waited about 20 minutes for the ambulance.

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