Thursday, January 31, 2008
It Is Better
Starting with a picture of ‘my dead’ plant to show all is not as bad as it seems.
Tuesday after I posted my ugly day got uglier. First Spirit bit my thumb when I tried to put his water dish in his cage. That was a Neosporin/Band-aid moment but it was nothing to what happened next. I had asked Jay to empty the dirty clothes hamper and take the contents to the laundry room but when I went into the bedroom the clothes were still there. I bent over to pick them up, lost my balance, and fell forward bending the toes on the foot with the cast the wrong way. All I could think of was only ten days to go and I fall. I called the doctor’s office for an appointment today because he isn’t in on Wednesday. I made arrangements with Your Ride to pick me up and bring me home.
Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed to keep my feet up and warm.
Today a couple of hours at the Doctor’s office, two x rays of the toes (only sprained not broken), a check of my blood pressure and Jay’s meter for accuracy, my lungs and heart and I was given an OK and after waiting for my ride I went home. Still a little pain but feeling a whole lot better about the outcome. The good news is even with a cast on my leg I have still lost a bit of weight. Not a lot but some.
I have confess that I messed up the other night when I left one of the screen doors propped open on the French doors and high winds took it off. Oh well I wanted to change them over to storm doors anyway when I can afford it. The positive results is I was able to get this picture through the glass.
I need a closer view but for now this is a Red-Bellied Woodpecker. We have had a couple of males and a couple of females at the feeder for the last three years but I haven’t been able to get a picture until now.
Oh well everything happens for a reason I just have to figure it out.
