so much for independence
I was working on a post this morning about the awesomeness of the Declaration of Independence and the plan was to come home tonight after the festivities and edit it and put it up, but instead I sprained my ankle in a (rather impressive) play at first base during a sunny afternoon kickball game. (The ball was totally in my hands, for the record, before the collision.) And I have never sprained anything, or broken anything, or much of anything bad with my body really except for a few weeks of runner’s knee and one small run-in with fire ants and anaphylactic shock.It happened really fast, the collision and the ankle twisting in a clearly wrong direction, and then I rolled around on the ground in my owl dress long enough to feel stupid. Luckily Nopporn is a wilderness first responder with a first aid kit in his trunk, and he elevated it and iced it and gave me anti-inflammatories, and eventually wrapped an ace bandage around it. It became rather plump. I guess this is why people get that “Health Insurance” I’ve heard so much about.
Now I am back home. The ankle is tender and it’s hard to get comfortable, but really I just need to complain for a few minutes about logistics. I can’t get upstairs, or go anywhere. So I’m trapped here on the first floor of my house. Happily I can hop to the kitchen - though I only have frozen bagels - and to the computer, though I have no DVDs. The only things to read down here are this month’s edition of The Southeast Examiner and my housemate’s Vegetarian Times. And most of all what is making me cranky is that tonight are fireworks, and I love fireworks the most, I have dragged friends to fireworks shows all over the world, I do not ever grow tired of them. They are different and fabulous every time. But I can’t imagine how I’d get to the river, since I can hardly get across the room. And that SUCKS.
So if you are one of the many jaded people who is sitting home avoiding the holiday, you should call me. I'm on the sofa. I'm reading about salsa.
posted by tortaluga @ 7:48 PM
1 Comments:
bummer!!
crawling works quite well. :) I'd have called if I had turned on my computer last night! call me if you get bored or bummed or you just feel like talking.
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