Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[maple]

I'm still in denial. So you can't use your legs at all since the accident? They don't work? I mean, I follow you about talking about your wheel chair and Mr. Saddi lifting you for the bath and such but you can't move them at all? wiggle toes? I remember when the accident happened but was it sudden or did it take a few days for the injury to manifest and mess up your hip area...didn't it? Will you ever regain movement? I'm sad...we were all knife throwin and having a caravan back in the day and then boom accident and then boom you were gone for a while.

 

[saddina]

During the accident the airbag went off and hit my knee (my legs were crossed) that damaged themuscles and nerves in my hip. since it wasn't a broken bone, nothing showed on the xrays. I was told to treat it like a sprain and keep off of it a few days, which became weeks. one day I just couldn't move it at all. My left shoulder tore when I was using a manuial wheelchair (the kind with a large wheel on each side), i'm too short for the adult kind, too big for the child ones, and right at the weight limit for a teen model. I swapped to a compainion chair, which has 4 small wheels, and is used by "stepping" (my feet work, my hip does not), since then i've developed arthritis in my right knee (uninjured in the accident, but needs replacing now). So I have a right arm that is fine, a left shoulder that does not allow me to reach above my head , a left hip that doesn't bend, and a right knee that needs replacing. It's degenerative, so i'll have less and less stregnth in the left leg, and more pain, everntually it won't move at all.

I can still juggle and throw, i'm right handed.

 

[maple]

That's right...your legs were crossed.... le sigh.... that's just really stinky.

I'm tired....lets throw some knives at boyd and see how good we do.

 

[saddina]

WE agreed to swap lessons, i'll go over how to throw with him, he's attempting to teach me how to shoot (yes for those who's counting, he's crazy enough to have 2 kinds of wepons in my hands, knowing i'm utterly clutzy).

 

[call ducks]

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Now who would let Boyd Juggle KNIFES???? <911>

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Saddi, I know nada. But just yuck, that sucks.

 

[sparkles2307]

Saddi, I remember being ont he old OW thread for only a breif time before your accident and hiatus. I'm sorry, now hearing the story, you're very brave, and its good that you're still living life!

 

[sparkles2307]

OK this is it, the day has arrived. I'm leaving work early and we are hittin the road Jack!

DH was a pill again last night. Apparently this trip is all about him (you know, meeting my bio parents for the first time isnt stressful for me at ALL) so when he discovered that I had packed my bag and the boys' bag but not his bag HOLY HECK broke loose. I said "Gee hon, sorry, I thought that since I already have to take care of 3 out of 4 of us that MAYBE the only other adult in the house could TRY helping out... sorry for being presumptive." So he cussed and bished and moaned and DID pack his own bag, but he made it clear that it was under duress.

This morning I got up at 5, showered, got ready for work, got the last of my packing done (hair dryer, make up, things like that) and was getting all the luggage assembled in the entryway so that HE would have an easier time of loading the car. He was sitting on the couch eating bacon at this time. Then BIL showed up to carpool to work with me and DH was like "Uh, you're not going to pack the car before you go?"

REALLY!?!

He has the day off and according to his he has "NO PLANS" all day, and I am at work... so NO HONEY, I'm NOT going to load the CAR before I go!

OK, mini rant over, I can feel the coffee hitting my bloodstream, I will smile for the rest of the day now

P.S. check out the blog today, very manly pics of DS#1

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Good morning for real everyone. At work and the worthless rats who were up kicking ALLLLLLLLLLLL night are now settling down and being quiet. I hate them.

Have a good trip Sparkles and don't kill the males in the car.

 

[sparkles2307]

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One could come back slightly less Male .....

It must be so painful to have 2 of them in there Alg. I remember DS#2 could wake me up with his little explosive movements... and he was the smaller of the 2 kids.