Double dang!

I had just posted last night that life is what happens when you're making other plans. Well, at barely daylight this morning I was packing my pickup to go water at the oasis. My back tires were low so I took the portable air compressor and aired them up. As I was carrying the compressor back into the carport I tripped over a stupid stake that I had tripped over before and knew to watch out for.

Whenever I pull my pickup to the carport behind the car, it's right next to that pole, so the only way to get into the carport is over or around that offensive stake. Avoiding tripping over it was on my mind as I made repeated trips over it. So stupid that the fall happened at all. Very disappointed with myself.

After the fact, it took my son a minute to remove the stake. I had tried several times throughout the last 20 years since I've lived there/here, but couldn't budge it.

Meanwhile, it happened too fast to even think, like "drop the compressor and catch your fall" type thoughts. My head crashed into the house harder than I've ever hit my head. It was horrible. Sounded like a watermelon being dropped is the only way I can describe it. I didn't pass out, so that was good. I got into the house, bleeding all over, and got my husband to take me to the ER. There, they did a Cat-scan and adorned my head with three stitches. After a while they sent me home and told me I could go water. (My knees are swollen and bruised too but that's minor.)

HOWEVER, my family was adamant that I not do that, so I'm sitting at home, not a happy camper. My daughter regaled me with horror stories, like that of Natalie Richardson, half my age, who bumped her head while skiing, thought she was fine, and died a couple days later of intracranial bleeding. And then there's Bob Saget, and apparently a myriad others. So I'm basically grounded. My son is going to water some later this afternoon. But he's not real good at knowing how much to give which plants. He'll service the feeders, too, and of course, get farther behind on his work here in town. I hate that.

This too shall pass!