Adventures in A & E...
May. 24th, 2011 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesI had an action-packed evening planned. It was going to run as follows:-
1) Plant out an annual.
2) My Tuesday evening exercise session - 10minutes stretching and warm-up, 2 minutes run, twenty minutes pilates.
3) Relax in a Lush bath.
4) A nice leisurely blog-post about Pompeii.
Instead, I spent the next two hours in Accident & Emergency, getting a lovely 1 and a half inch smiley face shaped gash in my elbow stitched up, And to add insult to injury, the bloomin' anaesthetic didn't work very well. The doctor was most apologetic. "Oh, don't worry," I said through gritted teeth. "Call it good research for my writing."
Yeah. What a NICE way to spend your teatime.
They say that most accidents happen in the home, and this was no exception. Though I suppose that technically speaking, the accident in question actually happened outside the home. Events ran as follows: I sprang out of the car, navigated my way past the rain-crushed columbines and paenies, then promptly slipped on the steel door mat and in doing so, managed to split my elbow open.
"I think you'll have to go to the hospital," my husband advised, in his best 'We won't Make A Drama Out of a Crisis' voice. And he was right. I was eventually sent back home with three stitches...
And the reason for this debacle? A pair of super-duper expensive walking shoes with vibram soles. I bought these things because I thought they'd be secure for walking. How wrong could I be? This is the third time I've ended up on my derriere on account of these wretched shoes. Though this is the first and so far the only time I've been sent packing to the hospital....
Ah well. The best laid plans of mice and men, etcetera...
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:26 pm (UTC)Glad your okay - and hope you mend quickly.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:45 pm (UTC)I hope your elbow feels better soon - and do make good use of that experience in your writing.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:49 pm (UTC)In the end the little assistamt girl did such a careful poking that I took the pincer out of her hand and removed those nasty gravel bits myself until the boss came in and took over. He was more my style. "You want something to bite on? I'll be done with that mess in a minute." And he was, plus it didn't even hurt as badly as that careful poking.
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:01 pm (UTC)My husband pointed out that I'd probably suffered just as much poking during all the shennanigans with the local anaesthetic as I would have done getting the stitches...
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:15 pm (UTC)I've been telling docs not to bother with the aneasthetics for years now. Though I admit the dentist can be really nasty - a root canal treatment without it is no fun. But getting some would only slightly dull the pain if I'm lucky, in exchange for a pregnant-whale-sized headache for the rest of the day. Some drops of cloves' oil on the misbehaving tooth have about the same pain-dulling effect without the headache.
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:24 pm (UTC)Thankfully, we still live in a country where we get free hospital and emergency treatment.
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:26 pm (UTC)I'm always flabbergasted by how treacherous shoes can be. I bought a decent pair of flats because my heels made me nervous, but lo and behold, the toe portions of the flats are so slick that if I'm not on carpeting, I'm liable to pitch forward any time I forget myself and attempt to walk naturally. Sheesh.
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:46 pm (UTC)Oh, and try giving birth when the anaesthetic doesn't work - especially when they do an episiotomy!! Now THAT is pain!
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Date: 2011-05-24 08:48 pm (UTC)<sends virtual arnica>
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Date: 2011-05-25 07:20 am (UTC)Poor you!
The experience must have left you in stitches
(ducks flying cushions :o)
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Date: 2011-05-25 08:47 am (UTC)Heal soon. Don't forget the arnica...
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Date: 2011-05-25 12:20 pm (UTC)I absolutely hate treacherous footwear and I'd be pretty annoyed at shoes that advertised themselves as sure-footed but in fact were anything but.
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Date: 2011-05-25 11:20 pm (UTC)Hurrying to get back to the page where you first noticed the little doodles that turn out to be an important archaeological find in the more recent entry--a very cool thing, but I want to read about it in chronological order...
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Date: 2011-05-26 06:28 pm (UTC)Alas, I wasn't even in the office when the great discovery of the heraldic beasts was made...