Do they make a pill for stupidity?

• by Grateful Heart
• 2014-05-21 07:05:40
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...because I need one. I shoulda stayed home.

I went to the gym today, right after I had my annual eye exam at the Ophthalmologist office. I was in the "big boys room", you know, with all the free weights and bigger machines. Nothing new, I use them all the time now. I was on the Gravitron 2000 machine and when I stepped down, I stepped right onto a 25 lb. round plate weight that was sitting half under the machine.

Well down I went as my foot planted half on, half off the plate. I felt pain in my foot but not sure from where as I lay there trying to figure out what just happened. No one else was in the room...thankfully. Didn't want to add humiliation to my list of symptoms.

It hurt to try to stand on it so I hobbled out of the gym and decided maybe I should get it checked out. I banged my arm on the way down too but didn't realize it until I was in the ER and I kept touching the back of my arm because it hurt. Finally I looked at it and saw the bruise.

So off for X-rays I go. They took a lot and yep, I broke my foot. The fifth metatarsal bone. It's in a splint until I see the Ortho for a cast in a few days.

I had the Nurses laughing when I said......maybe I should tell you about the screw in my ankle (they were going to see it anyway with the X-rays). After she typed that into the computer I said.....maybe I should tell you about my AICD....and we laughed. When she finished typing that I said.....maybe I should tell you about my hip replacement......well at this point we are hysterically laughing.......what pain??

I had to explain about my dilated pupils...that must have been a sight.

Then the Nurse said it's in the computer that I'm on chronic pain medication.....NO. That was disturbing, my hip replacement was over a year ago and those pain meds were for a very short while. I told the Doctor I didn't need them and did not want a refill back in April 2013. The Nurse said she would take that out of the computer.

Now here I sit, leg raised, iced and getting stiff.....all in the name of getting healthy. There's gotta be a better way.

I haven't used crutches since I was in my 20's. Believe me, it's not like riding a bike.

I'm getting too old for this....time to act my age.

Grateful Heart