My child loves to sing "Love Shack", the old 80's hit by the B-52's. She acquired her taste in music from her momma...it's one of my favorites too! Her favorite part is the "bang, bang, bang on the door" section -- she just loves it. Yesterday afternoon I gave her a good visual of that particular line...when bang, bang, bang, went our SUV's hatch door on my hard old head!
Turns out... my head is not so hard after all - so all of you have been calling stubborn all my life -- think again!
Yes, after getting groceries out of the back of our SUV, I attempted to close the door and apparently my superhuman strength and sadly, slow reflexes combined and brought the door down right on the top of my head. It felt like Hollywood, I saw stars and glitter and then everything went black. I was able to somehow dial my husband on the phone, we are guessing I used speed dial from our caller id, because I couldn't really think or speak clearly and remembering his work phone number would have been impossible for me at that moment. Thankfully he answered the phone, and was able to call for help from my parents who don't live very far from us. My child was happily playing in the backyard, so she was not near me at this time, I think she would have been forever traumatized. My parents arrived and my mom stayed with Hannah while my daddy drove me to the ER. After seeing the doctor, it was determined that I had suffered a head injury but didn't need to be hospitalized. I was given a list of things to watch out for in the next 12 hours and told to go home.
I think I was very lucky. I did have to spend the entire night being woken up every two hours and my poor husband is now asleep after working all day yesterday and staying up all night last night to make sure I was still alive. I believe I scared everyone around me, including myself!
The swelling has gone down a bit, my head is throbbing worse than any headache I have ever had and my neck and shoulders are complaining too...but otherwise, I am alive and well. I have learned a powerful lesson or two in this ordeal; one is that I should eat something during the day...I neglected that yesterday and then the doctor told me I couldn't eat for twelve hours after the injury...which means that basically I fasted yesterday, without meaning too! But my bowl of grits this morning was possibly the best I have ever eaten!! The second lesson I have learned is that I will now don a helmet before unloading groceries...or maybe I will just let someone else unload the groceries for me!!
Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev
1 comment:
SO sorry you got hurt, but glad you are basically ok. Take it easy, don't let that car attack you again....
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