I Fallen and Can't Get Up!
The old saying "I have fallen and can't get up" has come true for me this past week. I was in the bathroom on early Saturday morning and ending up hurting myself. I usually fall either landing on my butt or my face but this time I landed on my right side and I had to lay there for awhile until I could get my right leg to hold me up and that is not easy when you can not feel anything at all. I was laying on the floor and the dog came over to see if I was alright and she was no help in helping me get up off the floor. When I finally got up off the floor my right leg buckled again but I was getting in my chair this time. I got in my room and tried to take a few steps to my bed and it was awfully hard for me to do and when I got in bed I looked at my hip, knee,ankle and foot and I was already starting to swell. By the time I got up at 5 my ankle bone ws not there and it is not there. I could not put any weight at all on it and it is hard to explain how I do walk since I have no feeling below the waist. But during the last 4 years I have learned how to step and know how to put my feet to be able to walk a few steps at a time. I use a walker to take steps to the garage to smoke and I hold on the dresser and bed in Mom's room to go to the garage that way and that is all that I can walk and I don't want to chance anything else. When I was in rehab that is all that they wanted me to do is walk and there was no wary that I could of and I tried hard to be able and there is no way that I can now or then. Even though I have movement in my legs I still have a incomplete spinal cird injury and there is nothing that can be done to change that. I had surgery to stabilize my spine and that is all that they could do for me. I wish that I would of gone to a different hospital when it happened but that is in the past and can't change the past but only hope that maybe they come up with another treatment for spinal cord injuries but it can't help me but maybe it will help someone else in the future.
I got a couple of packages in the mail today, I got the brads from the Brad Swap at KNK and a surprise package from one of the ladies there and then I got the stuff that I ordered from AddictedtoScrapbooking. I ordered the new Cutterbee craft knife, that you don't touch the blade to put in or take out. I tried it a couple of times and could not figure it out and I was reading the directions at the time and still couldn't do so I put it down and then went back to it later and I got it to work and I really like it and I think that I will be using it a lot more than the other one that I have. Also got another set of the perforates,cutter and scorer. I wore out my other one so I needed another on to use for Card Making. They really come in handy scrapping too. I am off to do a little scrapping before I go to bed tonight.
1 comment:
So sorry to hear about your fall...glad you were able to get back in your chair though. Be careful...we don't want anything to happen to you Tracey!
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