I tripped over my DSL wire that runs from my computer to the wall in my bedroom. I landed real hard on my left knee and it's hurting so bad. I don't think I broke anything. This pisses me off so bad. I was feeling so good and now this has to happen. I haven't fallen in a couple years. That knee cap has been bothering me on that side and now it's really going to take a long time to heal, if it ever does. Right now it's all swollen and I can't walk on it. I have to use both crutches to get around. It's hurting in the back of the knee too. This is what scares me the most. Falling. I want to be able to get around and get out to the store myself and I don't want to depend on anyone. It's a good thing I wasn't planning on going anywhere for another week. Hopefully it will be okay.
The last time I fell on my right knee, it took a year to heal. I tore some ligaments around the kneecap. I landed right on the kneecap on this one too but it was on the rug. But there is a cement slab under these rugs and not much padding. It hurts like crazy.
I had to figure a way to get up. I let myself cry for a while . It hurt so much. I felt stupid lying there crying though. I had to scoot along the floor and then drag my step stool into the bathroom and back myself up onto that first and then onto the edge of the bathtub. Hurt my arms doing that. I used to be able to get up like that all the time but I haven't been on the floor in a couple years and my shoulders have been hurting for the past month. But I finally got up. Then I had to use the step stool, which has a long hand rail on it, to get into the living room where my crutches were. This is NOT going to be fun trying to get around with crutches and having that knee hurt so bad. It's all swelled up as I am writing this. It's just about 2:30 pm. I better go search online to see what I can do for it. Maybe I can wrap it in something to ease the pain. I know my little brother, Rick, knows how it feels. He just cracked his knee cap a couple weeks ago and he's on crutches for quite a while with a cast up to his thigh.. I hope I didn't break anything. I sure don't want a cast on. Had enough of that when I was younger.
And here I was, feeling good for a change. Falling takes a toll on my body. I have no leg muscles to catch my fall so I go down with my full weight. I usually try to soften the fall with my arms but this time I couldn't. Maybe it's a good thing. I need my arms. When I fell a few years back and hurt my knee I also hurt my shoulder real bad. And like I said, it took me almost a year before I felt back to normal again and I could walk on that knee without it hurting and my arm could move again without hurting.
It's always something.
OUCH!!!!!!!!! My whole leg is starting to hurt bad. I better go sit in my chair in the living room so I can elevate it better. Wish me luck. I'm going to need it.
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