| October 31, 2013
My daughter can be super in a crisis, and she came through with flying colors. She turned my van around so that the passenger door was as near to my chair as possible. Then she and Kurt grabbed my arms and got me to where I could climb in. Then Lydia drove me home.
She parked partway on our lawn so that I wouldn\'t have as far to go. Then she and her husband helped me to get into the house. It took longer and was harder this time because there were a porch step and a porch landing to get up on. If I lifted my right leg, the pain was excruciating.
My daughter finally worked out a system with wooden chairs that helped a lot. I could actually slide from chair to chair with minimal pain. At last I was in the house, in a very muddy denim skirt, with wet shoes and socks. My sweater, the only one that I own, had the whole arm on it wet and muddy.
My daughter and her husband raced back to work, because she remembered that my brother had stored crutches there. When she brought them home, I found out that I could drag myself around on them very slowly, without too much pain. In addition to that, she got hold of one of her friend\'s dads, who has a key to his small church. She was able to borrow a walker and a wheelchair from the church, thanks to him. Unfortunately, we discovered that the wheel chair is missing the foot supports, so I am not sure how much it is going to help me. But I am using the walker now, and I am surprised at how (relatively) easy it is for me to get around with.
She helped me to get into clean, dry, clothing, and then she stayed at the house until John got home. I laid on our couch after eating some soup and taking pain medication. My daughter passed out the Halloween candy to the Trick or Treaters. I was glad that she could do it, but I missed seeing the kids in their costumes. There weren\'t as many as usual though, because of the miserable rainy weather.
John googled what to do about a pulled hamstring. You are supposed to keep the leg elevated a lot, apply ice to it every couple of hours, and stay off of it as much as possible. I have probably been sitting too long at this computer already, and am going to get up and go lie down.
I don\'t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Will I be able to go to work? I have no idea. Will I be able to go with John and my parents to a dinner and a play tomorrow night? Maybe... I hope so. I\'ve been looking forward to this play for several weeks. The walker will help me, at least.
Whatever happens, I will probably have trouble being on line very much if at all for the next few days. I will try to be on in bits and snatches of time. I\'m sure glad I got my Halloween greetings out to all of you before this happened.
Part of me still can\'t believe this. Of all the crazy freaky things to happen.....!
Weirded out on Halloween night,
Elaine
PS. A wallpaper of the front of my van, after I slid down the front of it. My husband took the photo, and (of course) I edited it.... lol
(Link back to Part One in case you want to read this crazy but true story again:
http://my.desktopnexus.com/CollieSmile/journal/my-crazy-painful-unbelievable-halloween-... |
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