OOPS and OUCH!!

This week was not what you would call my best week... but I managed to survive it despite myself... and now... it's a brand new week... fresh start!  YAY!!!!

My bad week started last Sunday (July 22nd) as I was watering my patio flowers that sit in pots at the edge of our pool.  I was chatting on my cell phone to my youngest daughter at the time... hands free I might add, as I had my cell phone in my pocket, and earbuds in my ears... my cell phones have been known to enjoy a swim in pools and toilets... so thus I was trying to make sure my cell phone stayed nice and dry... but in doing so... I tripped over the pool cover rope and fell quite hard on my left wrist... I fell so hard that my husband (Joe) heard my fall (he was inside the closed garage, about 50 yards away, and he ran out to see if I was OK), and the fall actually knocked the wind out of me for a moment.  OOPS and OUCH!!!#1  I was absolutely sure I had broken some part of my body... but once my breath returned, I stood up, brushed myself off and realized I was OK.  I have always been a clumsy goober... my parents can attest to this from all the ER visits during my childhood... but it has been years since my last clumsy episode.  It was a scorcher day anyway, so Joe and I finished up the day relaxing in our recliner chairs as we watched the British Open Golf Tournament... and that was that for Sunday.

Monday my bad week continued.  As I was backing out of my garage... ever so slowly and cautiously, as ALWAYS... and just as I cleared the garage, I began to turn my car, and then... BAM... I backed into a car parked in my driveway.  My car was fine, the car I hit has a sizable dent in the front quarter panel.  I knew the car was there... I saw the car sitting in my driveway when I opened the garage door... but I did not realize how close it was parked to my turn around area... I was concentrating soo hard on NOT hitting the sides of the garage... I just did not see the car behind me until I hit it!!! OOPS and OUCH!#2
I immediately told the car owner, then drove to my insurance agency, and the process has already begun to repair said hit car... but still... signs were pointing to me that I should just stay put, wrapped in bubble wrap, safe and sound in my home this week!

Tuesday came and went without incident... only because... I did stay put inside my house all day.  Wednesday I ventured out for a luncheon and had a lovely time, but my left wrist had begun to ache a bit... making me wince at times when grabbing, or lifting things. By Thursday my left wrist was starting to throb quite consistently... and you would think I might have told myself that... 'maybe'... I should go get it checked out... but... I just kept telling myself it was just jammed from the hard fall... I saw no swelling or bruising.

Friday when I went to my pilates session... my instructor, who is also a physical therapist, took a look at my wrist and did see some puffy swelling inside my wrist, but I still had full range of movement.. only hurting when lifting or grasping... I continued to think it was just jammed.  Saturday I had a massage and my masusse worked on my wrist, asking me to describe the discomfort I was experiencing... after doing so, she thought it did indeed sounded like a hairline fracture... so... I finally took myself to get my wrist x-rayed... but because it is now a week post injury, and it was the weekend... I wont know for sure if it is indeed fractured or just jammed until Monday (tomorrow)... but the ER Dr. splinted it, and that has helped... however... when I take the splint off to bathe... I can't bend the wrist at all.  OUCH #3  REALLY!!! I have 'been there, done that... and got the tee shirt' with this wrist before when I was 8 years old!

Good news is... 'IF' my wrist is just jammed... I can get it manipulated and popped back out, wearing a splint for just another week... but "IF" it does have a hairline fracture, it will be casted for 2-4 weeks.  I must say typing this blog one handed has been quite the challenge... but I feel so accomplished 'gitten-er-done"!!

But the thing that BUMS me out the most is... I have been begging for new golf clubs for years, and I started playing golf quite regularly this Spring, and Summer to convince Joe that new golf clubs is a 'need' vs just a 'want'... which I finally did convince him... I ordered the new clubs... and they arrived the day AFTER I hurt my wrist.  I have bunion surgery coming up the first week of September... so... I have been getting as much golf time in as possible these past couple of months, knowing my golf season was quickly coming to an end this year.  Now... thanks to my clumsiness... I'm out of the game for the rest of the Summer... not getting to play with, or enjoy my new clubs until next Spring!!  GEEZERS!!!

We all have 'those" days.. and occasionally, 'those' weeks... it's up to you to decide if 'those' days or weeks will define you, or make you stronger, encouraging you to just get through them.  I learned a long time ago (Thanks to the good example Joe always sets) that a positive attitude will make the worst of circumstances more bearable... after all... tomorrow is another day... a 'do over' so to speak.  Each day you are blessed enough to wake up, is a new fresh day!

My wrist will heal... I will get to enjoy and play with my new golf clubs... but until then... life is still good and I am blessed!!  And in the end... it's just one more story to tell, and share of me being a Ding Dong!!

7/30...
Addendum to yesterday's post (of 7/29)... Wrist NOT broken!  WHEW!!!  Dislocated and popped back in place... getting it popped back in place about made me puke... but I DID get through it, and it is MUCH better now!  Just remember to' breathe in, and breathe out' on bad days/weeks and things WILL be OK in the end... if things aren't OK now... it's just not the end yet!