Partly cos it nearly killed me yesterday morning.
I was nicely asleep and having a surreal dream about Grandma Mazur (reading too much Stephanie Plum methinks) when I was woken up by a sneeze.
I reached down to the box of tissues...empty.
I woke up Anthony to check his side for tissues...nada.
So I hauled myself out of bed to go downstairs to the bathroom and grab some toilet roll.
Except the fact I was still rather sleepy meant that I didn't put my left foot where I should have done at the top of the stairs.
This resulted in me sliding down the stairs on my right side and landing in a heap at the bottom. (Anthony was out of bed and nearly at the top of the stairs before I hit the bottom).
Ow.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!
These are the stairs that I went sliding down (note the white marks on the edges of the bottom seven stairs). Below you can see what my right calf and right thigh looked like just afterwards (those white marks on the stairs...the skin from my calf). The swelling on my thigh just kept growing, it was a B cup size before any bruising started to come though.
I trotted off to the doctor (ie Anthony gave me a lift there and then I took 20 mins to do the 5 min walk home) since I'd also banged my head (no bruising there, sorry) and he was quite amazed that I hadn't broken anything (as was I). I just had to wait for the swelling to subside before I tried to spend a large amount of time on my feet. He also said "You'll probably have a little bit of colour change around that swelling in the next few days".
He wasn't wrong.
So for your viewing hilarity I present to you.
Kate's Rainbow Leg (over the course of yesterday afternoon)
The bit above the crescent shape is where it is still swollen (although probably only an A cup now) from a haematoma that is "probably going to take a few weeks to come out properly" - as in the swelling to go and that bit of bruise to come out. Since this is me...the folks in the Center Parcs Spa will probably be wondering how I got that bruise when I go there in March!
5 comments:
that's one impressive bruise!
aw ouchy! those stairs look mean!! hope it heals soon x
That is totally something that I would do! Looks dreadful! Feel better soon!
Ouch.
That looks painful, hope you feel a bit less sore by now.
Wowe, I haven't stopped in for a while and you try to kill your self! I had a nasty fall (well 2 really) On my bike one at 20 mph and one at 10 mph. Bikes and ice don't match well. But I wont feel it in tell tomorrow.
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