If you asked anyone who knows me well enough, first thing they'd tell you is that I'm a klutz. And not just the occasionally clumsy sort, but the bumbling type that always, ALWAYS ends up in some sort of self-inflicted freak accident.
However, yesterday has got to be some sort of new record for me, what with two rather stupid incidences happening within hours of each other.
In the late afternoon, I was showering before heading out, and doing the usual womanly stuff in the shower (shampoo, soap, shave, etc.) when I realised that my razor was missing from the rack holding all my bathroom essentials. Spotted it lying on the floor in the corner underneath the rack, and bent over to pick it up.
On straightening up, I hit my head - hard - on the rack, and managed to dislodge the whole rack off its fixture. The whole thing practically fell on my head, along with bottles of shampoo, cleansers, soaps, razors and creams scattering everywhere while I screamed and tried to duck.
Gained a bump on the head, a graze on the thumb from attempting to catch the falling items, and a sore toe from having a whole bottle of shampoo landing on it.
Was at Hontas Room last night till fairly late, and was leaving for supper (missed dinner and was starving) when I managed to miss a step on the wooden stairs (I've pretty bad astigmatism and can barely see shit in the dark) and managed to tumble down the whole flight of stairs right down to the entrance. Yes, I'm amazing at getting into embarrassing situations like that.
I seem to have scared everyone with the first response I could get out upon landing.
"Whoa. That was EXACTLY like watching footage taken by a video camera tossed down the stairs!"
Everyone was so terrified that I was just babbling nonsense as a result of concussion, they all but called the ambulance.
And then, "Does this mean I can't go for supper anymore? I'm still hungry..."
Felt fairly alright, albeit a bit shaken, and managed to have my supper... until later on when I was driving back. Got a bit dizzy and had a spot of blurry vision, and my wrist swelled up and started throbbing with agony.
Anyway I'll save the rest of the drama for another day, but yeah, I learnt who my true friends are and which in my social circle are just people claiming so without a modicum of sincerity. Had everything checked out at the hospital's emergency ward by an unprofessionally blase doctor, who all but told me I was fine, bar the bruises and scratches and extremely low blood pressure, which meant I had to go back again today.
A long painful wait for the radiologist later, and here's the result:
A stupidly huge bandage to support a sprained wrist. The doctor suspected fractures in the wrist and maybe a cracked tail-bone, but post X-ray, she came to the conclusion my tail-bone was fine. As for the wrist, apparently my bones are a bit too small to see clearly, so she's sent them for analysis and a formal report. However, she didn't spot any major fractures so she's taking it as either hair-line fractures or just a sprained wrist. Quite funny at how she had to squint at the X-ray images of my hand.
As to why that ridiculously large amount of bandage was used - well, the nurse actually finished wrapping my hand midway through the roll, but figured it was a shame to trim it, so she just decided to finish up the entire roll adding on more layers of support to my hand.
A bit -______-" I know hahahaha.
Here's the only wound I got that actually bled:
Yeah, a scraped right shin, to which I wailed "OH NOOOOOOOO... my leg is ruined!", much to the annoyance of many who were present. Someone hollered back in exasperated panic that "OMG IRENE THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE VAIN!" Hehe.
Other injuries sustained include a few more bumps on the head, a badly bruised shoulder, bruised feet, deep-flesh contusions on the lower back, a couple of sprained fingers, a very stiff neck (feels like whip-lash) and an assortment of bruises on my entire body, including a purplish one on my back.
One happy thing came from this though - I've never been given so many painkillers in my entire life. Apparently I looked like I was in enough pain to warrant plenty of good pain pills haha.
Alright, shall end this post to lie down. In so much pain today even chatting on the computer fucking hurts.
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