A Day In The Life
Deadlines are never a good idea, I'm thinking.
We have Jake here, which is a good thing. But during the day, dear_hubby pushed himself repeatedly, too much. He's in the middle of building a rather tall case for DVDs, which... wait for it...
fell over. He just looked up for a moment, and suddenly the thing lost its balance and came crashing down.
Not a happy dear_hubby, not at all.
This was not the signal to stop, however. Oh no.
He redoubled his efforts, not with the case, but with moving piles of our DVD library into another case... I'd been trying to explain that Jake wasn't going to judge us by the amount we had tidied away, but when that didn't work, I joined in (not entirely gracefully, I will confess).
Except then... with a large handful of DVDs, dear_hubby took a tumble. Over his feet or over a chair or even over a bottle we'd not yet managed to get put away. I didn't see what happened, only its aftermath.
Ai!
Broken glass, the contents of the bottle spreading an alcoholic citrusy aroma and puddle. No cuts, thank goodness. But dear_hubby was feeling a huge amount of pain in his hands.
So, with not much time before I had to leave to pick up Jake from the airport, I pretty much called time, and marched us off to the local emergency room. (Well, I called a taxi. And made the area safe so we didn't slip/cut ourselves...)
The one saving grace now was that it was a local holiday, and the roads and the emergency room was very quiet. He was seen to almost immediately, and was X-rayed around 30 minutes after we'd arrived. We waited maybe another 20 minutes before the attending physician could get back to us and give her verdict, that while he was experiencing a lot of pain, she was figuring not much damage came to the nerve, and certainly (as I could see myself - my, but X-ray tech has improved since I had to be treated for a possible broken bone, way back in my childhood... they developed the "film" so fast!) no broken bones, thank goodness.
So, he's got some analgesic cream, which doesn't seem to be doing much to the pain level. Argh. Double argh. Not the excitement we needed prior to Jake's arrival.
Think good thoughts for dear_hubby, please. And thanks for stoppin'.
We have Jake here, which is a good thing. But during the day, dear_hubby pushed himself repeatedly, too much. He's in the middle of building a rather tall case for DVDs, which... wait for it...
fell over. He just looked up for a moment, and suddenly the thing lost its balance and came crashing down.
Not a happy dear_hubby, not at all.
This was not the signal to stop, however. Oh no.
He redoubled his efforts, not with the case, but with moving piles of our DVD library into another case... I'd been trying to explain that Jake wasn't going to judge us by the amount we had tidied away, but when that didn't work, I joined in (not entirely gracefully, I will confess).
Except then... with a large handful of DVDs, dear_hubby took a tumble. Over his feet or over a chair or even over a bottle we'd not yet managed to get put away. I didn't see what happened, only its aftermath.
Ai!
Broken glass, the contents of the bottle spreading an alcoholic citrusy aroma and puddle. No cuts, thank goodness. But dear_hubby was feeling a huge amount of pain in his hands.
So, with not much time before I had to leave to pick up Jake from the airport, I pretty much called time, and marched us off to the local emergency room. (Well, I called a taxi. And made the area safe so we didn't slip/cut ourselves...)
The one saving grace now was that it was a local holiday, and the roads and the emergency room was very quiet. He was seen to almost immediately, and was X-rayed around 30 minutes after we'd arrived. We waited maybe another 20 minutes before the attending physician could get back to us and give her verdict, that while he was experiencing a lot of pain, she was figuring not much damage came to the nerve, and certainly (as I could see myself - my, but X-ray tech has improved since I had to be treated for a possible broken bone, way back in my childhood... they developed the "film" so fast!) no broken bones, thank goodness.
So, he's got some analgesic cream, which doesn't seem to be doing much to the pain level. Argh. Double argh. Not the excitement we needed prior to Jake's arrival.
Think good thoughts for dear_hubby, please. And thanks for stoppin'.