In my last blog I left off mentioning a fall I had that for once wasn’t caused my cancer, (Seizure). so here’s what actually happened.
It was The 1st Wednesday of Lent & instead of having our Bible study group we all decided that we would go to the Lent service at my Church. I hadn’t been to church in a couple weeks so instead of wearing my usual jeans a toque & hoodie, I decided to go all out (for me it’s all out) dress boots (no tread), did my hair nice I even wore my dress coat, minimal padding.
So I had arranged to get a lift from 2 people in my home group.
So the ambulance came and I asked my friends wife to come with me to the hospital. Well as soon as they find out you have head trauma from a previous fall (oh yeh, I’ll get to that on my next blog). They put you right into a bed & into one of those little rooms that give you curtain privacy. I then had a, resident Dr. or a Dr. who’s possibly doing a practicum? Either way he was very entertaining.
I’m sorry but my shoulder is starting to really hurt, 6 weeks later & I still can’t do anything that makes my shoulder muscles engage for too long. It’s a very gripping story😉 just bare with me.
I will finish the story, I promise.
When we got to church, I should probably mention that it was snowing & had been all day; well as much snow as Vancouver gets in an average winter.
So we got to church & I opened the car door & put my right foot down & the moment I turned to put my left foot down I went down head 1st hitting the pavement and rest of my body followed crunching the right side like a piece of paper you throw in the garbage bin. The worst part was the sound of my head hitting the pavement as it was literally the 1st part of my body that came crashing down & in that moment the crackling crunch ricocheted through my ears. My friend came running around from the drivers side as I was screaming in agonizing pain and I told him to grab my head we were both fairly certain I’d cracked it open but, by nothing short of a miracle I didn’t.
So his wife called 911, my Vancouver dad & ran into my church to get someone to come out to help me. Fortunately for our church we have a lady that’s an ER nurse so she new what to ask me and how to keep me calm while I lay on the wet cement in the parking lot on wet cement and in snow that kept coming down. I was shaking like a 9.9 earthquake had just hit, I was so cold & no doubt in shock as well. Well The ambulance came within 10 mins. We are on a direct route for police, fire, ambulance & hospital. Very close.
Bless you all for hanging in with me,
Melanie
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