After a short hospital visit I am home again, all stitched up and sporting the ugliest head bandage. I think the fact that I have tendrils of matted and crisp bloodied hair hanging below the bandage like a reject ‘do’ from the mullet era is not doing my cause any good. I’m still struggling with the humour side of things as the bruises are still too sore and real but my kids are enjoying re-telling the saga of the flooded laundry.
While I might not be able to laugh at myself in this instance (yet) I did have a private chuckle at the hospital when they asked had I been admitted before. Hhmmm……there was another incident a couple of years back which is kind of like this one and still everyone gets a chuckle out of it, at my expense. I may as well share it with you because it is even crazier than this sorry tale……. I had spent a day nursing one of my kids with gastro when later that night I came down with the same symptoms. I rushed off to the toilet in the middle of the night feeling oh so sick and a moment after I had sat myself down on the toilet I passed out. Hubby heard the loud thump and came to investigate only to find me on the floor on my knees, PJ’s around my ankles, bottom up in the air and my face buried in the porcelain tiles. Thankfully he preserved my dignity before calling an ambulance. The fall out from that little fainting episode was a broken nose, 2 black eyes, an open gash to the top of my nose and the feeling that every bone and tooth in my face was bruised and sore. I couldn’t leave the house for several weeks.
Here’s a funny side note about gossip…of course my children couldn’t wait to tell their teachers and classmates at school about the ambulance coming in the night – apparently that was so cool. Mothers began talking and a few days later an acquaintance rang the house to offer her condolences and was shocked to have me answer the phone….yep, the gossipers had me dead. That is either very funny or very sad.
So enough of my whining……honestly everything will be okay in a few days and I’m sure I will be back in the studio shortly painting up a storm – or at least some more Christmas projects.
Hugs,
Kerryanne
OMG Kerryanne you sure know how to keep the kids entertained during the school holidays!!LOL
I am sure OUCH hardly covers how you feel.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hopefully Riley will be improving day by day.
Take care.
Alison
No way! I can’t believe my eyes as I read this post! Don’t EVER lament about the cold weather again! Hope this comment finds you feeling better. Take this time to relax with a pile of magazines without guilt!
Kerryanne dear, hope you are ok . Can’t believe you slipped and ended up in the hospital so sorry to hear that…do take care and stop cleaning and washing and all of that wonderful stuff you do, I’m sure your house is spic and span enough.Have a good rest in the meanwhile.
Oh Kerryanne, You silly sausage! I am very sorry to hear of this accident and hope you recover real soon. Please take care and STAY OFF the tiles for now!
Siobhan xo
Oh you poor thing! I am feeling really bad for your pain, but I have to admit that I am giggling too. Sorry about that.
Hey Kerryanne! OK, Kerryanne is no longer allowed in laundries!! First there was the bubble avalanche while you were at the beach, now you’re doing yourself a damage!! Not good! I think I’d seriously consider paying a laundry lady to do your washing. Hope your poor head is on the mend soon – at least you have a really good excuse for forgetting things for a while, “I fell on my head and seem to have forgotten…” Oh … love the teddy pic, by the way even if I do want to kiss his ‘ouch’ better! Hope someone kissed yours better – providing it didn’t hurt to do so! Take care of yourself and I’ll catch up soon! Bear Hugs! KRIS (Tag Along Teddies)
Oh Kerryanne! What an amazing mother you are to go to those lengths just to free your children from boredom. Some would just give them crafts or take them out, but not you…you went the distance to create an indoor pool for them to play in and then to top it off created a synchronized swimming event which made them so popular at school and gave them something exciting to talk about. I tell ya, you should get the mother of the year award…lol.
Ok…enough joking. I am glad you are okay. Take care of your injuries!! Although hearing you were dead would have been pretty funny.
xxoo Kel
Oh my goodness Kerryanne! You’ve been in the wars haven’t you! I think you deserve a nickname a friend of mine had back in high school – she was called AP, Accident Prone! I hope you’re doing better now!
I can’t talk though, last week I slipped at the B & B and fell hard on my knee, I’m sure I chipped some bone there, it’s still so sore, burst a vein which is so ugly but at least not painful, and have a nasty scab like when we were kids and always had falls and scabby knees, lol!
You’re in good company, hee hee!
Hi Kerryanne,
I hope this finds you in a better state, possum. I am sending a little fairy your way to do the laundry for you from now on (although she has a bit to finish here before she leaves!) I really hope that you are feeling better, & that the girls & hubby are helping you around the house.
Love,
Sarah xxx
Oh No!!! Hope you’re OK Kerryanne, what a way to liven up the school holidays. I think I remember another disaster with a washing machine when you were on holidays
Ohmygosh you are a doofuss arent you. Oh you poor bugga. How r you feeling now? Still very sore and ouchie i bet. Well you wont do that in a hurry again will you. Im sorry but i have to admit i giggled (sorry) at the thought of you up-ending yourself in the air, almost cartoon-like, but then i read on and saw how hurt you are and i felt so bad 🙁
Rest up chickie and get someone else to do the washing !
Love Shann x
Thanks for visiting my blog Kerryanne.Sorry to hear about your injury,heres hoping for a speedy recovery.
Lucinda
TWO hospital-sized noggin whacks in such a short period of time??! Uh oh; next thing we know, you’ll be painting post-apocalyptic abstracts in orange, black and purple, inspiration from a scrambled brain.
:-O
Oh my! Enough already!
I have spent the last hour after my babes werea ll tucked up in bed reading all your back-posts….
This one is a shocker!
Your blogs certainly one of my new found fav’s!