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A funny thing happened to me a fortnight ago, actually it wasn't that funny but you have to laugh don't you ?

Well it was Monday and OH was off work so we decided to walk the dogs round the headland (a walk we often do when it's nice). We had got the half mile around the harbour to the start of the cliff walk where there is a little beach down a slope that the dogs like to have a dip in.
I was going to by-pass it thinking they could have a dip further round but OH and mutts decided different. So dog got handed to OH, sunglasses on top of head and down I went. LITERALLY 2 steps down and my ankle twisted under me on some gravel and I was flat on my ar*e (well as flat as one can be with a bum the size of mine) with my leg under me.
OH asked if I was okay and after the 1st few thoughts of being sarky decided I was in too much pain and managed to sob out Noooooooo. What I then said was something in the region of go find a first aid cos I think I may have broken the sweet thing.
Hubby looked bemused then asked if I thought I could make it back to the car........!!!!
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considering I had crawled the 2 paces back up the slope I politely informed him no. So he left Minx with me and went to fetch the car (thankfully the car could be driven round)
So there I sat on the ground with one dog sobbing into her fur, looking like an extra from a Lassie film, when some chaps from a building came out. I checked around to make sure I was dry and not had a little accident on top of my major one, dried my tears on Minx (being thankful that she was dry) and tried to explain that OH had gone for the car. I think they understood and I went back to being a Lassie extra.
OH got the car round and promptly parked it the wrong way round *men*
We finally got me back to the van where we took the option to phone a friend who speaks fluent Spanish and bless her she said she would be there asap after finishing work, and she was...so orf to the clinic we went..by now I had picked up my crutches that I came out to Spain with after breaking the other ankle ..that is another story entirely. Clinic said they didn't think it was broken strapped it and advised taking it easy for a few days but if it got worse go to the hospital for an xray. Now I don't ever want another cast on, not because I have a thing against casts even tho' I have, but because I am petrified of that ruddy saw they use to take them off. The last time I had a cast cut off they had to have somebody talking to me with a bowl I could be sick in....I know what a big baby !
Anyway as N had come straight from work and it was now after 7pm we decided to stop at a pub to buy her dinner....lol There was a step to get up and I couldn't make it so this semi drunk english chappie decided to help (it was a big step) . After he had managed to grab my boob hindered my way telling friend and OH he knew what he was doing I decided it was prudent to go elsewhere before I swiped him round the head with the ruddy crutch.....
You really do have to laugh ..Friend was all for whacking him OH was trying to work out what I was going to do or wanted him to do me I just wanted to get out of there !
We stopped elsewhere got fish and chips takeaway and headed home.. it was now after 8.30pm over 4 hours since my tumble.

I asked OH to take the next day off work as I wasn't going to be able to walk the dogs ..he wasn't sure he would be able to, so I did the female thing and cried. OH took the next day off work and arranged for others to walk the mutts for me for a few days.

By the Saturday OH's next day off I had discovered a few things ..the mutts hated the crutches, crabbing sideways to get around the bed hurt, friends are fantastic and 5days stuck in doors give you cabin fever. Also there are several shades of black purple and blue that are really quite nice if they aren't the colour of your foot and ankle.

1 week later from the fall and the foot was still very swollen but I could get around on it with strapping on. I took the dog walking back, well there is only so much you can ask friends to do. They didn't get far but we did go out for as long ! I met lots of new people who all wanted to know what I had done ..(felt like writing a script out and handing it them lol) and so I hobbled on. I had to stop taking the pain killers as they were making me sick (most painkillers contain some aspirin and I'm allergic to it)
Friday last week I had a slight set back came out of the shower and fell over the dog ! then whilst trying to walk them some idiot child managed to kick a football at the dogs they hit me and all hell let loose.
Still we are now a day away from it being 2 weeks and for the 1st time I have been able to stay at my pc for more than 15mins. The ankle is still very swollen and painful and my opposite hip hurts from walking but there are good points.
I have met new people, the mutts are better behaved (at the moment) and well and I am not sure ..I have missed you all because I couldn't sit for long enough to log in

ha ha ha,oh what you like,,,,I thought perhaps youd gone to visit,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,mum.....!!}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}very painful all the same and take weeks to get right,,,,keep a crutch handy in case OH goes for a second round of walks......}

oh uzzi you poor thing. i feel your pain and send you lots of sympathy. many years ago i was walking in cornwall along a cliff top path, when i put my left ankle into a rabbit hole and it disappeared. seconds later i was spreadeagled on my stomach. i cut my knees and like you thought my ankle was broken.
my friend that was with me just burst into laughter and said i wish we had bought the camcorder!!!!

like you i had some lovely colours on my foot. when i went out to dinner that night, i felt rather undignified, all dressed up with a lovely dress and jacket and guess what was the only footwear i could get on? yes flip flops. imagine the looks on the faces at this posh restaurant when they caught sight of my feet lol.

anyway i hope you are feeling better and getting more mobile each day.

thinking of you

florencex

Oh Uzzi, poor you, I do hope your ankle will soon be almost as good as new. I am sorry but I did sort of giggle at some of your text, well you have such a way with words lol but can fully understand the inconvenience of the accident and am glad friends rallied round and helped you out. At least something good came out of it, that you met new people.

Hope you will soon be completely fit again and the dogs stay better behaved now they have learned how!

Lizx

Kay wash your mouth out !!!! lol I don't know which is worst a mangled ankle or mother dear for 3 weeks ... She arrives on the 24th May *cringes*

Florence the colours are amazing when you actually study them ..I know this as I have done most days when I change the strapping lol

Liz you may giggle all you wish because I have, well you have to really no point being miserable as nobody will see lol Mind I had a horrid thought the other day and I'm having to decide whether I should sulk about it or not ...You see the sun is out now and it's shorts and t'shirt weather. Now it's bad enough going around with slightly tanned legs and a big white bandage on the end BUT imagine later when the bandage comes off ...Tanned legs and a lump of wrinkled white meat on the end .Now if that isn't worth sulking over I'm not sure what is !

I did over do things on Monday mind I was trying to cook tea being independant ...and managed to drop some of the contents of the frying pan on my foot .now the oil might have been good for moisturising poor lump of white but I'm not sure that the onions were very useful to it !

Oh Uzzi, you do make me laugh, your style of writing could I am sure become the next big TV success...this is a complement!

Some years ago iwas away from home due to work. As I was in North Wales I decided to have a look around the beautiful country side. Found an excellent care park and off I went. The scenery was wonderful snd the fresh air exactly what I needed. All went well until I was about three paces from my car when I trod on a stone, my ankle twisted and not only did I hear the crack but so did a couple behind me.
To cut a long story short, I had indeed broken my ankle but also one of the bones in my leg. I had to get home and that was in London, because my then husband had to fly yo the USA and said he could not cancel his flight!

So with bandages all over my leg, a flip flop on my foot and far to many painkillers I eventually arrived home.
Filling the petrol tank twice on the way caused consternation from those in the station office!!

What did Then Husband say......."you are late, I have to go now so bye bye....and of he went!!

When I finally got to the hospital I had a serious injury was in plaster for nearly 6 months, left husband, took the chidren with me to our seaside house and never went back. We, that is the children and I cared for each other and one of their delights was pushing me around in my wheel chair.

Uzzi, I love reading your threads, you always make me smile or laugh out loud, and I hope that you are walking better everyday...

09.39 hrs Spain

Ahhh Bridget I do thankyou for the compliment, now a TV series would be amusing ..but think of the money and no that's not the money earned but what I would have to pay out in legal fees getting sued all the time lol
OH says that I make him laugh also but I'm not always sure it because of what I say ..still I love him anyway and he his good with dodgy ankles He was very patient with me when I broke my right (that's right as in left right not right as in wrong -right) ankle some 7years ago Even if I did refuse to let him push my wheelchair !

Funny story about mother dear and wheelchairs.. many years ago she had broke her leg so orf I went to look after her (she was between husbands at the time). One day we had gone shopping and was going down the underpass as she wouldn't let me dodge the traffic... part way down I stopped to re-arrange the bags and forgot to put the brake on !
Not sure what was funnier mother dear screeching or me trying to work out what she was shouting about and I did catch her before she hit the brick wall at the bottom! Still it made her think twice lol

Sorry to hear you had a bad time of it but at least it showed you how caring the children were about you.

Lol Uzzie (laughing at the mother in a wheel chair story.)

Sorry to hear about your accident and hope it heals completely soon. Having badly twisted my ankle in the past I sympathise, it is a horrible sick feeling pain. But it is the way you tell it, you are an excellent raconteur.

Hope you are feeling better soon. Sometimes these things happen and you really couldn't make it up if you tried. Maybe we could all do a book together about the ups and downs of a family researcher.

Thanks Ann and Alison, it's getting better slowly I left the strapping off last night and this morning but by lunch time was screaming for it back on OH reckons I'm trying to do too much too fast lol (if only he knew)

talking about not being able to make it up if you tried .....
When I broke my ankle last time I ended up in Worthing hospital ....oh I better tell you how I broke it ....lol in the front of this pub is a low wall calf height sort of anyway I in my wisdom decided to jump over it ..as you do when you want to get the other side and it's a longer journey round.
Part way jumping I decided for some reason known only to my brain and not to me to land on top of the wall instead. I obviously thought my legs were shorter than they are ..now that is unusual !! and lowered the leg further than I needed and smashed into the wall instead ..
uppps 5 breaks in a 6" bone nah nah's came along stuck me in hospital and all that operated etc etc ..then we got to the stage when it needed to be casted. Down I went , via a round about route because the caster fancied one of the ambulance men ......when we got there the lass apologised for the delay I told her not to worry cos if I hadn't been recently married I would have made eyes at him also. She replied No the time it had taken to get me down because the other lass was off with a broken arm after falling over a brick wall outside a pub !
Yup wait for it the same brick wall outside the same pub ..she said maybe you should both sue them I said I can't ....*cringed*


it's my pub. I was only glass collecting on the patio ...
and there's more cos when I got back to the pub complete with cast so my machine lady hobbled in with a cast on her right foot
Nooooo it wasn't my wall, she fell over her washing line !

You know Uzzi, I think I might steer clear of you if you were ever in my neck of the woods, seems you are accident prone and it follows you with your Mum and your staff and even your nurses lol

Hope you are soon fighting fit again and can get the tan evened out, maybe you need some gravy browning for when the bandage comes off, oh but no, imagine the dogs and your fake tanned bit lol

I really agree that you could write a good comedy show but if not that, do write all these tales in a notebook or something, It's the way you tell 'em, as Frank Carson? used to say

Lizx