All this is happening to me because...
Oct. 22nd, 2008 03:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuvielOkay okay okay, if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!
Here's the scenario. ::does her best Sophia Petrillo voice and says:: PICTURE IT! The parking lot of Sally Foster. 4:35 PM. A young Sicilian girl pulls into the parking lot.....okay, I'm busted! I'm not a young Sicilian girl. I'm a middle-aged American woman. But the rest is true, so this must make me a Liberal! If I were a Republican, I would have said that what I'm about to tell you took place in the Hamptons twenty-five years ago during the glory days of Ronald Reagan when there'd be no such thing as an African American running for the, GAWD FORBIYUD, office of the Presifink of the United States of Ameriduh! But I'm not that much of a dirty, rotten, stinking, underhanded, yellow-bellied liar.
So, anyway, Sally Foster, 4:35 PM... I parked my car and stepped out. As I hoisted my person onto my bad knee (do you see where this is going??), I hear a *click* and then my leg bones turned in a manner not conducive to leg-bone turning. Yeah, it hurt. But I hobbled on in and did my job to the sound of my leg bones and knee joint doing their own version of the Country Bears Jamboree right there in my pants. But, by the time 9 PM rolled around, I needed to be, in a wheelchair. I called Aunt Tudi and asked if she wanted to join me in another lovely sojourn at the Spartanburg Regional ER. Filled with glee at the prospects, she threw on her duds and, thirty minutes later, we were underway. Three hours (which ain't too shabby when it comes to the ER) and a couple of X-rays later, Dr. René Auberjoinois came in and asked how I was doing, he was doing great, but he had knees! His words. He then proceeded to tell me that I have no cartilage on the inside portion of my knee joint. It's just bone on bone grinding around in there. He put me in a knee immobilizer and on crutches for two weeks, and he ordered me off my feet (my Dollar General job) for a week. Yee... So I get to call Tami later on this morning with the smashing news that not only will I not be in this morning, but I won't be in for a week! And, when I do go back, I'll have to sit down because I can't stand on crutches for three to four hours straight, depending on when she let's me take my break! So, my job there is pretty much knackered, because I can't count the hopeful applicants to whom I gave applications just yesterday on my fingers and toes on account of I'd run out of digits. And the job at Sally Foster ends at the end of November which means I'll be totally out of work!
But. There's a reason for everything and as I was pulling out of my friendly neighbourhood Walgreens clutching all five of my pain pills (you read that right. five.) to my depressed bust at 2 AM in the morning, Aunt Tudi spotted that reason.
Why not have a gander at that fashion-crashing knee immobilizer?
And, with that, I'm a dead woman.
Here's the scenario. ::does her best Sophia Petrillo voice and says:: PICTURE IT! The parking lot of Sally Foster. 4:35 PM. A young Sicilian girl pulls into the parking lot.....okay, I'm busted! I'm not a young Sicilian girl. I'm a middle-aged American woman. But the rest is true, so this must make me a Liberal! If I were a Republican, I would have said that what I'm about to tell you took place in the Hamptons twenty-five years ago during the glory days of Ronald Reagan when there'd be no such thing as an African American running for the, GAWD FORBIYUD, office of the Presifink of the United States of Ameriduh! But I'm not that much of a dirty, rotten, stinking, underhanded, yellow-bellied liar.
So, anyway, Sally Foster, 4:35 PM... I parked my car and stepped out. As I hoisted my person onto my bad knee (do you see where this is going??), I hear a *click* and then my leg bones turned in a manner not conducive to leg-bone turning. Yeah, it hurt. But I hobbled on in and did my job to the sound of my leg bones and knee joint doing their own version of the Country Bears Jamboree right there in my pants. But, by the time 9 PM rolled around, I needed to be, in a wheelchair. I called Aunt Tudi and asked if she wanted to join me in another lovely sojourn at the Spartanburg Regional ER. Filled with glee at the prospects, she threw on her duds and, thirty minutes later, we were underway. Three hours (which ain't too shabby when it comes to the ER) and a couple of X-rays later, Dr. René Auberjoinois came in and asked how I was doing, he was doing great, but he had knees! His words. He then proceeded to tell me that I have no cartilage on the inside portion of my knee joint. It's just bone on bone grinding around in there. He put me in a knee immobilizer and on crutches for two weeks, and he ordered me off my feet (my Dollar General job) for a week. Yee... So I get to call Tami later on this morning with the smashing news that not only will I not be in this morning, but I won't be in for a week! And, when I do go back, I'll have to sit down because I can't stand on crutches for three to four hours straight, depending on when she let's me take my break! So, my job there is pretty much knackered, because I can't count the hopeful applicants to whom I gave applications just yesterday on my fingers and toes on account of I'd run out of digits. And the job at Sally Foster ends at the end of November which means I'll be totally out of work!
But. There's a reason for everything and as I was pulling out of my friendly neighbourhood Walgreens clutching all five of my pain pills (you read that right. five.) to my depressed bust at 2 AM in the morning, Aunt Tudi spotted that reason.
Why not have a gander at that fashion-crashing knee immobilizer?
And, with that, I'm a dead woman.
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Date: 2008-10-22 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-22 11:38 am (UTC)Between us, we should have the collective universe's load of karmic debt repaid.
Seriously.
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:04 pm (UTC)Virtual hugs. Sheesh, you poor thing.
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:09 pm (UTC)I am so sorry too. Do they think it will be ok without surgery? How will that heal?
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Date: 2008-10-22 03:46 pm (UTC)You remain in my thoughts and prayers (as useful as that seems to have been).
So sorry.
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:38 pm (UTC)::facepalm::
Sorry this happened, sweetheart. Hopefully something will come up to take the place of the Dollar Store for you. I'm sending what healing and prosperity energy I can in your direction. And if I win the lottery, you are SO getting a piece. SRSLY.
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Date: 2008-10-22 05:30 pm (UTC)I'm sorry as hell about your knee, that's pain you don't need...now what the hell does teh Universe think is so goldurned important for you to be forced to sit still like that?
SHEESH!
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Date: 2008-10-22 06:49 pm (UTC)Damn girl.
I'm no where near you on pain pills - but watching David (downing 4 Talwin's at a time to just take the edge off) can ONLY IMAGINE what you are feeling.
I agree on everything happens for a reason. Just don't always get the reason for a bit.
Here in Texas, you can apply for unemployment benefits for injuries - *if* your employers doesn't give sick days. Just a thought.
All my hopes for you...
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Date: 2008-10-22 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-22 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-22 08:18 pm (UTC)What else can be said?
Except that Durgablue has a point -- much writing, and perhaps Letters of Agent, can be done.
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Date: 2008-10-22 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-23 08:07 pm (UTC)All this is happening to me because...
Date: 2008-10-22 09:50 pm (UTC)I´m really sorry to hear that happening to you, it is something you really don´t need.
Let me know if there´s anything I can do for you, OK?
Best of wishes&hugs
Oleander56
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Date: 2008-10-23 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 04:09 pm (UTC)I haven't tried to live on it myself so I've only logged on occasionally - all I know is what their docs said when I last logged in. Might be worth checking out, tho, since you're bedridden for a while.
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Date: 2008-10-24 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-24 04:06 pm (UTC)No cartilage? No WONDER you're in excruciating pain! Sheesh!
Hope you get at least the pain under control soon!