Ok not so much a rock star, as it turns out.

[aliwilliams]

When I was little, when I'd trip or otherwise exhibit normal klutziness, my sister would chime in with a "way to go, Grace." Like clockwork.  After what I did yesterday, there' s a good chance my sister is going to fly across the country and write the sentiment across my forehead, in Sharpie.

Long story short: Walking home from work, tripped, ow,

Comments

[slightlyoffaxis]

God, that sucks! I trip over nothing all the time, so I sympathize. I'm glad your blood is back where it belongs.

[missfee]

what exactly were they xraying? is this your wrist again? sadness. i hope they gave you nice little pills.

[aliwilliams]

No, I am thankful that while I managed to give my right elbow a significant gash, my biotronic reconstructed right wrist appears to have escaped unscathed. (If my unconscious threw out my elbow in an attempt to protect my wrist, go unconscious!)

The x-ray was to make sure no big pieces of New York City sidewalk had embedded themselves in my arm. Because while I'll take Manhattan, I don't mean that literally. There was also a cool dye joint test, but I'll spare you the details.

No pain meds, but that's probably because every time they asked about pain, I disappointed them. "How would you rank the pain from 1 to 10?" "Oh, 2." "2?! Out of 10?" "Uh ... 2 and a half?"

[missfee]

oh, thank god you protected your wrist. whew.

i suppose i have an overactive imagination, but i can always imagine pain being much, much worse, so the pain scale and i don't get along. how do you define ten? is it the most pain i personally have experienced? how much pain i can imagine? there are flaws in this system.

[anyway413]

Nice job saving the wrist! Maybe they should give us guided imagination for the pain scale instead...imagine you were just mauled by a lion...does it hurt that much? Ok, how about an ocelot? I think a 2 is probably a kitten, so Ali, stop man-ing up. Woman down? That seems...wrong. Also, maybe some falling correctly lessons would help with the walking nerves?
Katie, do they teach you that stuff in skating? I know they made us fall down (in grass) to practice getting our sides down when we fell off of horses (and not limbs, heads, or spines). It's like trust exercises without the trusting.

[kate_the_agent]

Oh no!!! I hope you're feeling better.
And, umm, I know exactly how you feel. Getting xrays of my ankle tomorrow.... :)

[cstixx]

Hey, I do that too! The reciting thing. Usually O Captain My Captain but sometimes Casey At The Bat if I'm feeling ambitious.

[wmetoile]

Your roommate would like to know why you didn't bring her the hot rectangular orthopod. Because my, um, knee hurts. Yeah. I banged it against the TV in the cab.

[aliwilliams]

We are unfit. Good god.

[wmetoile]

Falling apart at the seams at age 27. Oh, I accidentally told the nice cop you were 28. I'm not sure why. Maybe I thought you were Katie or Jesse.

[aliwilliams]

Which nice cop? To get into the ER? As I was leaving at 5 am, one of the guard/cops goes "Finally leaving? Cause you've been here forever." Yeah, dude, I noticed.

Oh, and the Aussie EMT laughed in my face when I told him my birthday was April 1. Funnier when I'm not bleeding, homie.