Well...

I broke my leg...



I was being thrown at aikido, when my leg somehow got in a bad position and made a very satisfying snapping sound. Ouch! Off to the ER, in our small community hospital. The waits are really short there, but they did have to call a radiologist out of her bed to make the x-rays. Everyone was a bit bewildered when they listened to me telling them I broke my leg when somebody was throwing me ^^ They were eyeing me warily. We were making up all kinds of stories which I could use instead of this. Feel free to comment if you have good ideas. I am sure I will spend a lot of time explaining to people what happened, and it would nice to have some variety ^^

I got my very own hospital bracelet, on which the first item was my account number. Nice to see where their priorities lay. We also had to look at a big and scary looking poster on the door of the little exam room, admonishing us that we had to keep the door closed, per federal regulations. Seemed very important to them.

Good news, it's only one bone in my ankle and it is a clean break. Not very impressive. They sent me home with splint, crutches, and prescription for pain meds. The conversation went like this

Nurse 'I am here to show you how to use your crutches.'
Me 'OK'
She showing and explaining, then giving them to me to try
Me 'Great, works fine'
She 'Where are your shoes? You need shoes now'
Me 'In the bag, but I only have flipflops'
She 'You can not use flipflops, that will not do at all'
Me 'No problem, I'll go barefoot'
She 'No way you are going to leave here barefoot!'

I did anyway :)

The kids were very impressed with my broken leg and had all kinds of great ideas to help me 'We could install an elevator!' Kate reassured me 'It could have been worse, you could have broken BOTH legs!'



The kids have been enjoying the crutches.

And the apple trees? I'll take my older kids and put them to work while I supervise. The doctor did not tell me not to drive, and I was careful not to ask ^^