OUCH!

I took a little spill last evening and ended up with some boo boos….. ;-(

I got home from work and let the girls out. The routine is they go out, do their preliminary duties, and come back in to get their supper before they go back out and play for a while……but, when they come in after the first trip outside, I make them calm down a little before I give them their supper so that they don’t gobble too fast and spill everything all over the place! Well, yesterday, they came in and I started to sit in the little odd chair in the living room – I stepped behind the ottoman and before I could sit, Megan jumped on the ottoman and shoved it toward me causing the square wooden leg go up over two of my toes (now, it needs to be said that this is a somewhat heavy storage ottoman – not a little light weight thing…add a 40 or so pound dog jumping on it at warp speed and OUCH)! As soon as it scraped up over my toes, I yelled out and the pain took my breathe away and things got a little blurry – I fell forward, putting my hands on the ottoman to try to steady myself — but, much to my surprise, the ottoman slide away from me, causing me to fall flat onto my new, very hard, wood floor surface!!!! I laid there dazed for a moment pushing three very concerned dogs away so that I could catch my breathe! When I looked at my toes, they were already swollen, red, and bruising, along with the scraped up skin that was starting to bleed some…….I was sure I broke at least one of them!!! As the night progressed, though, I would wiggle them and the swelling went down and they didn’t bruise as badly as I thought they were going to……so, I guess I’m OK!!!! ha-ha

Today, they are still a little red, scraped up, slightly discolored, and only just a little tender. I’m relieved — I have had a lot of trouble with my feet this year — two minor surgeries on toes on my left foot all in the first 3-4 months of the year!!! I didn’t need any more reason to hobble around and have sore feet!!! ha-ha