When It Rains, It Pours.

My Adam was taking the garbage out and he fell. How did he fall? Well, taking the garbage out here is like being in an obstacle course. The bins were moved a little over a year ago to the space in between our apartment and the building next door.  There is no official path. The ground is uneven with a few rock slabs placed here & there, grass, dirt and when it rains, mud. There are grates under windows that jut out to half the width of the path.

There are little bombs of dog poop from a lazy ass owner from next door who doesn't pick up after their dog. (Ya, I know it's you kid with the little white Bichon Frise. I hear you out there encouraging your dog to, " Pee. Pee........Pee. Pee. Pee.......Pee")

Living next to a park with a creek, there are also critters.  We hear the Raccoons opening and closing the bins at night.  Random food that missed the garbage cans has little critter teeth marks in it.  I never take the garbage out without coming back in & scrubbing my hands like a surgeon preparing for surgery.

Once Adam opened a big bin and there was a baby Raccoon in it.  He opened it & placed it on its side so the little fella could escape back to the safety of his house in the trees with his Mommy.

Anyway, back to Adam.  So he fell and went head/shoulder first into the wall of the building next door.  He had a bump on the back of his head and a really sore right shoulder. It was his foot that hurt him the most.  We called TeleHealth Ontario and followed their instructions to ice & elevate it. After 3 days he couldn't walk.  We woke up super early to make it to the ER Dept at 6am to beat the rush.  He broke his right foot in 3 places!  Metatarsals # 2, 3 & 4!  Holy Jebus Cripes! He came home with a big ass cast and an appointment at the Fracture Clinic the following week.

Source

Adam also cut his lower left leg.  After getting the cast and hopping around on his left leg, it blew up. It got swollen and red and hot.  We thought he had the flu.  He was feverish, nauseous and all around felt like a bag of shit. He delayed his Fracture Clinic appointment for 2 days to get over the hump of the flu.  By the time he went, his left leg was causing him severe pain, he could hardly walk.  After the Fracture Clinic appointment for his right foot, he went right back to ER for his left leg.

Turns out it was a nasty infection. Cellulitis to be exact. So bad that he needed to be put on IV medication for 10 days.  He got a Homecare nurse visit daily being that he was pretty much a gimp & couch/bedridden. She was great and it made me appreciate even more than I already do, our amazing Healthcare system here in the Great White North eh!

The IV came out on Saturday so now he's on oral meds for 10 days.  His broken foot is healing well. The Cellulitis is healing but really gross. He has a section the size of a fried egg that looks part zombie rotting flesh and parts sunburn peeling skin. To add to it, it's itchy as hell. He mocks me as I tell him that's a sign it's healing!

Note to Self et Al:  Your Health is your Wealth.

I Have An Owie

I did it again, I fell. Last Thursday morning.

I don't know how it happened.  I had just exited the bus and was a few buildings away from my office. I had seen my boss pull into the driveway and BAM, I was on the ground.

I really did land hard. I had been carrying my coffee in my left hand (that I'd not yet had one sip) and both arms were out in front of me as if I was trying to make a snow angel but on my belly.

I don't remember twisting an ankle or stepping on uneven ground, it was just a sudden bang & I was flat.  It happened so fast that I didn't have any ability to try to protect myself from the fall.

I had my watch on, which is metal, and it dug into my left wrist to badly that my 2 main veins in my wrist puffed up and it looked like there were earth worms in my arms. There was no cut thankfully. My wrist & the palm of my hand turned blue. I panicked. I thought I'd torn the vein and was bleeding internally.  It took a few hours for the vein swelling to go down. I had an odd grey/blue bruise, a blue mark in the palm of my hand and tenderness for about a week.

My right elbow is another story. I skinned it. Not deep enough to really bleed a lot and not lightly enough to not need to cover it with a bandage.  To this day it is causing me a great deal of pain. It is tender, it is sore, I feel sudden pangs and stabs of pain and it is healing awfully.  Not to be too revolting but it just isn't scabbing up as it should.  It would be great if it could.  It is healing with a thin scab layer like paper.  I try to keep it uncovered when I'm at home but when it touches my body or anything, it catches. Even too much air from the fan makes it hurt. In a perfect world a scab would form and come off in one quick rip, but no.

The body aches and pains from the fall, mostly in my shoulders and neck, still linger but seriously, what the hell. Why do I fall? I don't get it. In winter sure, there's ice and snow but in May?

Laundry Mishap POST EDIT

Yesterday afternoon consisted

of Adam & I going to do the groceries

and 2 different stores.

Metro (Dominion) had skinless boneless chicken breast on sale for $8.80/kg.

Couldn't pass that up!

We ended the day by doing 6 loads of laundry!

Towels...Bedding.....Everything!

The dryer downstairs runs for 1 hour/load.

I had a large load that took 2 cycles.

It gets too hot. WAY too hot.

When I pulled out a sweater with a zipper, it seared me.

Amazing how such a small burn can hurt so big.

Thankfully the pain didn't last very long.

The mark is a little darker this morning!

POST EDIT.

Here we are, 5 days on, Apr 15'11 and the mark on my arm
continues to evolve.