I thank you all for your words of kindess and wisdom, concerning yesterdays post.
No one from the school ever called me back, but when Big J came home, he told me that the teachers had been called up to the office (as were a number of students), to give their accounts of the incidents. The end result is that Bully Boy has been suspended for three days. I hope that this young man will receive some kind of counseling, and that there will be no further trouble when he returns to school.
Now onto other things. My leg is healing nicely. I will be in the locked brace for at least 4 more weeks. I am not allowed to be up without it on, and using as least one crutch. This is because the knee will continue to "buckle" now and then, (and because the tibia is broken), I can't risk a fall. The brace doesn't weigh much at all...until I strap the thing on. Then it weighs about 50 lbs!
It is such an odd sensation, to have to walk around with it on...it's so hard to describe. If you want to try it out for yourselves:
Take a couple of metal rods and strap them to each side of one of your legs (quite tightly), using wide strips of felt and velcro. Hit your knee with a hammer. Now get up and walk around. That should do it:)
It takes some finagling at first, to figure out of to sit down on a toilet seat (please take videos for me when you try that out), and it's really difficult to roll over in bed. The leg doesn't have much strength for a while, so you need to have a beach towel on hand. Lean over and place the towel around the bottom of your foot. Then you can use it (or a strong stretch band) to hoist your leg up when you need to get in and out of bed or on or off the sofa. Now this next bit is really fun. Try getting in and out of the car. You have to sit in the back - and make sure that the car has a bench seat, cause bucket seats DO NOT work. Because this time around, I had my left knee done, I have to get in on the drivers side. So, hobble out to your car and open the back door. Turn facing the opened door, lean over and wrap the towel around your foot. Slowly lower yourself down until your bottom hits the seat. Now remember that you have to be pulling your left leg up with the towel as you are lowering yourself down. Keep the towel taught, and then lift your right leg into the car. Using your right leg, (and keeping the towel taught on your left leg) push down against the floor of the car and push yourself across the seat. I would commend trying this in a car with leather seats, cause if you have cloth apholstry , your clothes are gonna slow you down, and by the time you have pushed yourself all the way in, your pants will be around your knees. If you happen to have a dress on...you will have strangled yourself to death at this point, unless you remembered to pull it up around your waist, before you started the whole process! To get out...reverse the instructions!
My leg isn't really the problem now...its my left wrist and lower arm. I either have a stress fracture, or more likely - tendonitis. Yesterday it hurt so bad, I had to ice it off and on all day, and finally broke down and took a Percocet. Dumb me, I forgot to take the anti-nausea medicine along with it, so I barfed up dinner and then slept for 12 hours. I won't make that mistake again today, believe you me!!!
Okay - in my title for todays post, I promised something silly. Get out your tissues. Crank up the volume on your "puter" and go HERE. Man oh man. You are gonna laugh so hard when you listen to this. Hubby and I had tears running down our faces, and son had to help me cross my legs so I wouldn't wet my pants. What you are going to here, is an eye witness account of a traffic accident in Texas. If you don't think a traffic accident is funny...well just humor me, and go listen to this, and then come back and tell me what you think!
