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The Wounded...
(I'm feeling Looking at silver linings)
On Saturday, I was walking down a flight of stairs in a park and someone behind me stumbled. They were able to catch the handrail... I was not.
I fell down the stairs, receiving a number of injuries, including a broken left "naughty finger", a broken bone in my right hand (in the palm under my ring finger), as well as a cut (I was carrying a glass juice bottle) between my ritgh ring and pinkie fingers. I was very lucky that there was no more serious damage in the cut in my hand. I could have lost it. As it was, the damage was ti the skin and underlying tissue which was easily repaired (9 stiches), no nerve or structural damage. (see also my vlog)
I also received a cut to my forehead, just at my hairling which while small, bled like a son of a bitch and left me covered in blood form head to foot. I also have bumps, bruises, and scrapes all over my body. Luckily, I neither lost consciousness, nor did I have any other fractures.
It could have been a LOT worse. For reasons I won't go into, I could have been killed. My Mom was there and, thank GOD she wasn't knocked down, too, and thank GOD she didn't have to withness anything worse than the result.
No... no lawsuit. Everything is covered by my Provincial Health vare, and anything else by my private plan, if it should come to that. It was an accident, pure and simple.
I am already feeling much better, though the stiffness and soreness is just coming to a head. I have bruises on my back, chest, legs, arms, had, hands.... well, I think the only thing that was un-bruised was my face and neck. Thank GOD for that!
I did meet a VERY nice (and very handsome and with the same name as a famous comedian) paramedic, too, which is ALWAYS worth an ambulance ride to the hospital!
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