Thanks, guys! You're all really sweet. I knew I came to the right bunch for sympathy. Actually, it doesn't hurt - no pain going on here. Except for where I think I'm getting really black and blue from trying to walk with crutches! It's just an incredible PITA!!!! Metaphorically speaking. Trying to go up and down the stairs with crutches. Trying to move things from one part of the house to another - and not just bowls of soup! I walked around the block with my crutches this afternoon, just for practice, and had to stop and rest a zillion times. And by the time I got home I was all hot and sweaty from the effort! Sheesh... Oh, but I forgot to mention - I DID manage to finish painting my house before this happened! Whew! It looks great, too. Nice and white! :-) And I know full well that broken feet are trivial. The very generous young man whom I don't even know who lent me his ladder to paint my house was just diagnosed with cancer. Judging from his wife, whom I met when returning the ladder (and who was in a state of shock and told me about his cancer even tho I didn't know them), I think he'd be in his early thirties. So I am NOT really complaining at all. Bones heal. I'll be fine in time for everybus. I'm really fine now, just inconvenienced. But thanks for all your sympathy, anyway!
Joy
:::-----Original Message----- :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf :::Of Joy Hecht :::Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:21 PM :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM :::Subject: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!) ::: :::WAAAHHH!! I can't drive my van now!! Matilda is going to be abandoned :::to :::the driveway! ::: :::(end of vanagon content... :-) ::: :::I am now the happy owner of two crutches, one big fiberglass splint and :::one :::broken foot bone. It sucks! All sympathy greatly needed!!! Who knew :::that :::I could break my foot, just by being clumsy and tripping on the curb??? :::Surely not I, especially not before I continued walking another mile and :::a :::half to where I was going! Teach me to figure I should get exercise by :::walking all around town... ::: :::I have at least figured out how to carry a bowl of soup from the kitchen :::to :::the dining room table on crutches without spilling it. And thanks to :::global :::warming I don't have to contend with snow and ice on my crutches. And :::thank :::goodness my Prius doesn't take two feet to drive, and it's my left foot :::that :::I broke! ::: :::Yeah yeah, I know there are MUCH more serious problems in the world. But :::I :::still want sympathy, please!!!! ::: :::Now, should I really send this email, or just quit bitching and hit the :::delete key??? Oops, there goes the "send" button! ::: ::: ::: ::: :::Joy ::: ::: ::: :::**************************************************************** :::Joy Hecht :::now hobbling up and down the steps on crutches while :::Matilda is temporarily deserted in the driveway ::: :::For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place: :::http://www.joyhecht.net ::: :::**************************************************************** ::: |
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