52 apparently just wasn't enough
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gerisullivanIt looks like 2011 has figured out its days are numbered and those numbers are down in the single digits.
After holding steady at 50 items since November 23rd, my BAD list for the year gained three more entries in the past week. I was utterly furious about #52 because it put the bad items at at average of 1/week for the entire bloody year. I tried twice to drop some items to bring the total count down. Nope; every one of them earned its spot and isn't giving it up.
I suppose I should be thankful; bad things were averaging 2/week for the first two months of the year. But I'm not thankful. I'm feeling utterly battered by 2011. The evidence suggests the feeling is well founded, well grounded.
Today, the battering became more concrete. I fell coming back down the driveway from picking up the mail. The skinned knees and hands are no big deal; they wouldn't have made the list. But I also planted my right cheekbone hard into the blacktop. My first thought was that I might have broken it, I landed so very hard. At this point, I'm confident the cheekbone is fine, but am less certain about my nose. It's none too happy, mostly at the spot where the left nose cushion of my glasses slammed into it with enough force to bend the frames several degrees.
I've applied the requisite cold pack, taken a pain killer with some oomph, and reviewed various medical information online while monitoring my overall condition. Even if my nose is broken (and I don't think it is), it seems they tend to wait for the swelling to go down to decide whether they need to do anything about it. This feels like tissue damage and maybe a bruised bone. I'll be glad when it stops hurting.
So, yeah. 53. The fall is nowhere as near as bad as cancer or the numerous other health problems and deaths on this year's list. Still, it's rotten anytime and is particularly annoying when I want to be celebrating a quiet, comfortable Christmas.
At least blacktop is softer than concrete. I'm thankful for that. Thankful I was able to get up, thankful I'm not spending the night in an emergency room.
Well, not yet, anyway. I really ought to be more careful about what I write.
Onward.
After holding steady at 50 items since November 23rd, my BAD list for the year gained three more entries in the past week. I was utterly furious about #52 because it put the bad items at at average of 1/week for the entire bloody year. I tried twice to drop some items to bring the total count down. Nope; every one of them earned its spot and isn't giving it up.
I suppose I should be thankful; bad things were averaging 2/week for the first two months of the year. But I'm not thankful. I'm feeling utterly battered by 2011. The evidence suggests the feeling is well founded, well grounded.
Today, the battering became more concrete. I fell coming back down the driveway from picking up the mail. The skinned knees and hands are no big deal; they wouldn't have made the list. But I also planted my right cheekbone hard into the blacktop. My first thought was that I might have broken it, I landed so very hard. At this point, I'm confident the cheekbone is fine, but am less certain about my nose. It's none too happy, mostly at the spot where the left nose cushion of my glasses slammed into it with enough force to bend the frames several degrees.
I've applied the requisite cold pack, taken a pain killer with some oomph, and reviewed various medical information online while monitoring my overall condition. Even if my nose is broken (and I don't think it is), it seems they tend to wait for the swelling to go down to decide whether they need to do anything about it. This feels like tissue damage and maybe a bruised bone. I'll be glad when it stops hurting.
So, yeah. 53. The fall is nowhere as near as bad as cancer or the numerous other health problems and deaths on this year's list. Still, it's rotten anytime and is particularly annoying when I want to be celebrating a quiet, comfortable Christmas.
At least blacktop is softer than concrete. I'm thankful for that. Thankful I was able to get up, thankful I'm not spending the night in an emergency room.
Well, not yet, anyway. I really ought to be more careful about what I write.
Onward.
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Date: 2011-12-25 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 01:37 am (UTC)I'd spaced on the fall that preceded the two surgeries to get your nose working right. Eep, yes. My fingers are crossed for a plain and simple total recovery.
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Date: 2011-12-25 01:48 am (UTC)Empathy, pal. Sending empathy rays.
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Date: 2011-12-25 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 01:37 am (UTC)May 2012 be much better.
Date: 2011-12-25 02:16 am (UTC)And from what you said here, not spending the night in the emergency room seems like the right answer. (You never want to spend the night there, but sometimes it can be the least-bad choice; if they wouldn't decide anything about the nose and you're confident of the cheekbone, staying home seems like the right answer.)
Re: May 2012 be much better.
Date: 2011-12-25 03:40 am (UTC)The passing hours have confirmed my decision to stay home. Though it feels like it's a bit past time to reapply the cold gel pack. I'm off to do that now.
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Date: 2011-12-25 02:22 am (UTC)(AsyouknowBob, Yaktrax can help with wintry traction)
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Date: 2011-12-25 03:34 am (UTC)So I've heard and read about Yaktrax, well, except for the part when I'd then step on the hall tile, or other indoor surface before taking them off. In today's fall, wintry traction wasn't at issue. The driveway is dry and clear. There's no snow or ice present. We've been having October weather this week. It helps makes up for the December weather October brought our way.
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Date: 2011-12-25 11:22 pm (UTC)Yes, December in October was what we had too. Going to be near 40 for much of the week, too.
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Date: 2011-12-25 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 05:09 am (UTC)I've been moving slowly ever since the fall, but I did bring my tree in from the garage a few minutes ago. The lights are pretty. So far, it has all of one ornament hanging from it. I'll probably add some more before going to sleep. Presuming I can find the angel for the top, of course. She has to go up there and that's best done before there are many ornaments to jostle. Then again, maybe it will remain a tree with lights and one ornament. That's okay, too.
Much love, on your birthday, and on Christmas Day, too.
Ouch!
Date: 2011-12-25 05:32 am (UTC)Merry Christmas!
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 06:28 am (UTC)I hope you are healed up soon and that your Xmas is a good one... and that next year is a hell of lot better than this one has been.
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Date: 2011-12-25 07:17 am (UTC)Here's to an excellent Xmas morn and happy day the whole day through.
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Date: 2011-12-25 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 07:15 am (UTC)My 2011 GOOD list stands at 35 entries. Some of them are the good aspects of things on the BAD list. Being able to *help* the friend diagnosed with terminal brain cancer was one of the year's solid entries on the good list, much as I might wish there had never been cause for me to learn about her illness 25 minutes into 2011.
Others are just plain good all on their own. Gavi starting college at Smith, just 40 miles from Toad Woods. Twinzy Toy revival plans. New York passing its same-sex marriage bill. The news that the Coen Brothers are writing a movie script focusing on Dave Van Ronk's life.
So there has been good even in this awful-beyond-words year, a year that just yesterday led a friend to observe, "2011 passed like a kidney stone."
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Date: 2011-12-25 08:21 am (UTC)Feel better (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY).
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Date: 2011-12-25 10:26 am (UTC)You'll be interested to know that I softly sang Ripple while riding through the dark of night from Portstewart, N. Ireland to Donaghadee. Walter drove, Madeleine dozed, and I couldn't help but sing the lyrics. It was 1989, we'd been to visit James & Peggy White so I could meet them as Walter had promised I would back in his very first letter to me a few years earlier. Ever since, I remember that night whenever I sing or hear the song. 'Tis a blessing.
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-27 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-27 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-30 10:33 am (UTC)Thanks; I'm definitely on the mend.
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Date: 2011-12-27 09:24 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2011-12-30 10:36 am (UTC)I certainly hope this year's BAD/GOOD list is a one-off. I don't want to make a regular habit of needing it and would just as soon not compare any other years to this one, either.
Many thanks for your good wishes and hugs.
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Date: 2011-12-28 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-30 10:17 am (UTC)Indeed it has, but I now have the cutest little worry bird seeing me through the last few days of this year and well into whatever comes next. And a heart on a stick, too! They make me smile, smile, smile. (Sometimes while cursing the year at hand....)
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Date: 2011-12-30 06:17 pm (UTC)