Help! I've fallen and I...

Am hobbling around like a drunken sailor... not that I've actually seen a drunken sailor. Thought I'd take out the trash right before our Mother's Day Tea... bad idea. Oh, I got to the dumpster all right, but on the way back I missed the little step and fell, twisting my foot back and pounding both of my knees. I also managed to split my skirt, which had a knee height split to "sexier" according to my sister. It was not several inches over the knee.

I picked myself off the pavement and managed to stagger in the door. I don't think I've ever actually experienced shock like that before. It was scary. My ears were ringing, there were little black dots everywhere, my stomach was nauseous, and I started sweating.

My sister and I were both calm and managed to firmly ensconce me in her purple swivel chair with my ankle on a piano bench and encased in ice.

Just very glad it happened 10 minutes before the tea, and not before when I was squeezing the devil out of the slightly lumpy white chocolate to put pretty little stripes on the petit fours.

So I call Kaiser and get an appointment for Urgent Care at 8:15 in Harbor City, which is about 8 miles or so up PCH from my house. It's a huge complex with at least 5 buildings. Sat in the parking lot for a while until I realized I was at the wrong building. It was a good thing I was early. I hobbled up to Urgent Care, only for the doctor to take a cursory look and send me across the street for X-rays.

Hobbled out to my car, drove around looking for X-rays and parking spot, ended up parking in Doctor's Parking... which just so happened to be open and found a spot right near the rear door, ten yards from xray.

Wrote a little in my notebook, made some notations about some of the people. One girl had two cell phones clipped to her Sponge Bob Square Pants pajama bottoms. I guess when your significant other breaks an arm, you aren't too picky about what you put on.

There was a huge argument over me though. They couldn't figure out who could legally push me out to my car. I offered to just hobble but they ignored me. They called security, but then security was told the couldn't wheel a patient, and nurses aren't supposed to wheel a patient outside. So they had me sitting there waiting. Just as I was about to get out of the chair and hobble myself out, they just decided that if two nurses went, that could be okay.

So I got wheeled out to my car, then drove and hobbled back to urgent care. They don't think anything is broken but they sent my xrays off to Glendale to make sure. They wrapped my ankle and gave me a pair of crutches and sent me on my way.