To say that this weekend didn’t go as deliberate could be an enormous understatement. I had hoped to have all the partitions primed in lobby and bed room, and to have all the trim put in within the lobby by the top of the day yesterday. That didn’t occur as a result of I critically injured my proper hand.
The excellent news is that it wasn’t an harm from my DIY initiatives, so my security report there may be nonetheless excellent. I’ve been fairly pleased with the truth that I’ve been DIYing so long as I’ve, and utilizing the saws and different energy instruments that I’ve been utilizing for 3 many years, and have had so few accidents that I might depend them on one hand. And none of them have ever been main. No, this harm that sidelined me this weekend was from a fall.
On Friday, I had scheduled for the person who cleans up my building particles to return out and clear up my carport and haul away all the pieces I didn’t wish to preserve. In the event you’ll keep in mind, this was the aftermath of my walk-in closet undertaking…
And after they hauled all the pieces away, that is what it seems like now…
I nonetheless need to get on the market and sweep up all the sawdust and attempt to get that oil off of the concrete, however no less than all the mess is gone and it seems so a lot better…and safer.
To make room within the driveway for his or her trailer, I had parked our van on the road in entrance of the home. Since I didn’t go anyplace the remainder of the day on Friday, I fully forgot that the van was nonetheless parked in entrance of the home, so it stayed there in a single day.
Saturday morning, I wanted to go someplace, so I headed out the entrance door. It had been raining all night time and was nonetheless raining once I left. I didn’t suppose something of it as a result of I’ve by no means even as soon as skilled our entrance porch being slippery when it’s moist, and this has been one of many wettest summers we’ve ever had. However as quickly as my foot reached the sting of that high touchdown, it was like I had stepped on ice within the winter. My toes went out from beneath me, I landed on my proper hip, and my toes went sliding all the way down to the underside step.
I used to be carrying Rothy’s, which have these nubby soles, and you’ll see the place my toes left marks as they slid all the way in which all the way down to the underside step.
Had I simply saved my arm up and let my hip catch the complete weight of the autumn, all the pieces would have been nice. Consider me, I’ve sufficient padding there to maintain a fall with no ache. 🤣 I didn’t damage my again or my hip or my legs. These components have been all nice. However as I used to be falling, I instinctively reached out with my proper hand to brace for affect. And as my proper hand landed flat on the porch, it too went sliding proper out from beneath me. Once more, it was like I had fallen on ice. And my hand, which was flat on the porch to catch my fall, slid with the complete drive and weight of my freefalling higher physique proper into this publish.
I sat there, fully surprised and in excruciating ache, for a couple of minutes greedy my proper hand with my left hand. Truthfully, I used to be afraid to have a look at it for a few minutes as a result of I used to be certain I had damaged one thing. Ache was capturing by my three center fingers, the center of my hand, and into my wrist. I assumed that there was absolutely no means I had simply rammed my flat hand into that column with that a lot drive with out one thing breaking.
I lastly gathered the braveness to have a look at my hand to evaluate the harm and see if I wanted to go to the hospital. It damage so badly, however all the pieces was nonetheless shifting. My three center fingers, whereas in excruciating ache, appeared have been all bending correctly and on command. The whole lot else appeared nice with my hand and my wrist. So I made a decision to forgo the hospital go to and simply give my hand time to heal.
By the point I acquired dwelling, my fingers had swollen up like sausages. I might nonetheless transfer them, however due to the swelling and the ache, there was no means I might have gone on with my plans to color and set up trim. I don’t suppose I might have grasped a paint curler or a paint brush, and I definitely can’t do these issues with my left hand. By yesterday morning, it positively felt higher, however I used to be nonetheless having a tough time greedy issues due to my huge sausage fingers. And if I grabbed something too tightly, it was painful.
It’s nonetheless not again to regular this morning. My fingers are nonetheless swollen, however I’ve virtually no ache right this moment. If I seize one thing actually tightly, the ache degree is simply a 1, or at most, a 2 (on a scale of 1-10). That’s large enchancment over the way it felt on Saturday, and I’ve labored by a lot worse ache up to now. So I’ll be again to attempting to make headway on the bed room right this moment.
I nonetheless do not know why all the pieces was so slippery. I’ve solely ever skilled that within the winter when issues ice over. I’ve by no means skilled our entrance porch being slippery simply from rain. At first, I assumed it may be the footwear. Perhaps these soles of Rothy’s aren’t made for moist surfaces. However that wouldn’t clarify why my hand slid so simply prefer it had additionally hit a patch of ice. I’m simply so glad it was me and never another person visiting our home. I might have felt so horrible had another person fallen on our entrance porch the way in which I did.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.
