About three weeks ago, we got hammered by a surprise rainstorm with hail included! In July- it was totally amazing.

I went outside to feed the horses when I lost my footing in the pasture and I slipped and fell on my back. My right leg went straight, my left leg bent at the knee and went behind my back- OUCH!

I laid there in the muck for a bit trying to catch my breath, plus I couldn’t move right away. Gretchen came over to lick my face (which didn’t help much) but she tried.

When I finally struggled to my feet, my left foot was throbbing and I hobbled off into the house. I stuck my foot into a pan of cold water with ice and soaked it a good 20 minutes. It took some of the hurt away but not all of it.

The next morning I woke up with a swollen and hot foot and ankle so I stuck it again into ice and took some Tylenol.

Since that fall, I have been fighting a foot that swells at the most inopportune times, toes that were now numb and pain traveling up my ankle to my leg. I kept thinking it had to get better, but tonight, it got really bad. Elevating it made it hurt worse than ever so Mike whisked me off the the ER.

Apparently, I have tendinitus with complications (of course) because my left arm is starting to go numb and my fingers are losing their feeling as well. They put me on prednisone and painkillers and I am to follow up in five days with my regular doctor.

I had to laugh though when Dr. Steph told me I had to rest for at least five days. When I explained to him all that I have to do in one day, how much Mike and the animals depend on me, plus the fact that I have to go to work, he just shook his head and said, “Well do the best you can!”

Now, I will be sleeping upstairs with the screen door shut so that the cats can’t come in. (Everest loves to lay on my legs and feet) I kno that I will kitty carolers at the door clamoring to come inside to see me, but I guess you can just call it tough love. LOL

I feel better about at least knowing I didn’t break my foot. I was thinking a hairline fracture might have occurred. But the numbness in my fingers concerns me (and the doc.) Mike accused me of having sympathy pains for him! I wish!