BROKEN!

Bad News!

I tripped over some plastic while walking into the market Thursday around 1:30 p.m. and hit the blacktop. I hit so hard that I blacked out for a bit then I rolled over and the pain crashed into my awareness and I knew I was hurt and wasn't going to be able to get up. A concerned young woman's face appeared above me and she introduced herself as a nurse. I had smashed into the asphalt with the right-side of my body. I was wearing sun glasses which had lacerated parts of my face and my mouth was lacerated inside so I started to have blood coming from those injuries. My knee hurt bad and I couldn't move my arm without stabs of enormous pain shooting through it.

A manager from the store came out to get my info off my driver's license for an incident report and told me he was so sorry this had happened to me. When asked how it happened, I told him that I had slipped on something. Another man spoke up and pointed to a long black pen laying where I would have been walking. I was taken down by a pen! I love pens, but not that one, obviously. While waiting for the ambulance I started to get the shakes, a combination of freezing weather and shock which made everything hurt so much more.

The ambulance came and took me away. I won't go into the details of the visit to the ER except that when I looked at my face (and this was after they had cleaned it up) I was shocked to see the amount of damage but it will hopefully heal. I looked like I had been in the boxing ring and went 10 rounds. Oh yeah, and I was the one that lost. It turned out that my elbow is broken and I have to have surgery.

I have finished one small mosaic, prepped one substrate for a door, and prepped a mermaid cut-out substrate before the fall. I will post pictures soon. Hope you are all healthy and doing fun things.