Hi. My name is Tacie and I’m a klutz.<\/p>\n
The town I work in recently redid all the sidewalks and curbs with very nice brick sidewalks and granite curbs.\u00a0 The upgrades look very nice and very historic. However, when the curbs get wet they get slicker then snot covered ice. We’ve had a dry spell lately so the grease and grime and oil have had a chance to build up the curbs.<\/p>\n
Enter the monsoon.\u00a0 We are in the middle of almost 24 hours of pretty steady rain.\u00a0 The local creeks and rivers are flooding (the Brandywine Creek is estimated to crest 14 feet over flood stage tomorrow at 3 pm).\u00a0 We had tornado warnings until 7 pm tonight – thank God none appeared.\u00a0 But it hasn’t stopped raining and is predicted to go until at least 1 am.\u00a0 And since weathermen can’t tell what the weather is doing unless their head is out a window (I have a weather cat who is more accurate – but that’s a post for another day) who know when it will end.<\/p>\n
Enter the clutz.\u00a0 I was walking from my parking garage to my office when I went\u00a0tushy over tincups on one of those slicker than snot curbs.\u00a0 I was wearing flip flops and I really went down hard on my left knee and I twisted my right ankle.\u00a0 I just thank God for 2 things – 1 it wasn’t pouring when I went down so I only got slightly wet and 2 my coworker Bob was right behind me.\u00a0 Thank you Bob!!! Make that 3 things… I didn’t rip or tear or soil any of my clothing.\u00a0 Bob\u00a0helped me up and would have waited and walked up to the office with me, but I shooed him along.\u00a0 After all – it took me quite a while to get to the office and there was no sense on both of us being late!<\/p>\n
I did manage to make it all day at the office.\u00a0 I iced my swollen ankle and put a big old band aide on my skinned knee.\u00a0 Which involved walking (limping) down the hall to the ladies room in my barefeet.\u00a0 I wasn’t putting those rotten flip flops back on.\u00a0 And don’tcha know, I ran smack dab into the HR director!\u00a0 But I was with my boss discussing my injuries.\u00a0 What I didn’t realize until I home was how swollen my knee is.\u00a0 WOW! It’s huge. Which explains why it hurts so much and won’t bend much.\u00a0I must have hit the edge of the curb or something.\u00a0 So here I sit on the couch, ice pack (aka bag of frozen corn) on my left knee and right ankle wrapped in an ace bandage.\u00a0 And it really is an Ace bandage.<\/p>\n
Here’s the fun part.\u00a0 We only have 1 bathroom – upstairs.\u00a0 And walking up the stairs is just not fun.\u00a0 Since my left knee doesn’t bend without pain. I’m guess a doctor’s visit is in my very near future if I can’t get the swelling down. Assuming I can get back across the Brandywine.\u00a0 I’ve been upstairs twice tonight.\u00a0 Next time I’m not coming back downstairs.\u00a0 Or I’ve gotta get a port-o-potty down in the living room so I don’t have to keep going up and down.\u00a0 Up is\u00a0a lot easier than down. I’ve been coming down on my butt.<\/p>\n
Thank you BP! I would not have made it into the office today without you. And thanks for checking up on me to make sure I was still alive and kicking.\u00a0 And with that… I gotta use the bathroom – again.\u00a0 And my frozen corn isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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