Live Each Day--Accidents Happen
So where have I been since March? Life can change in an instant and mine did. We were in MI on March 25th for a Surprise party for my sister. I got to a relative's home and opened a door that I thought was the bathroom. The door opened in and I had stepped into a stairwell to a basement. My last memory was “Oh my God,what can I hold unto”.
Family heard what sounded like a 20 lb. sack of potatoes going down the 14 stairs, no utterance from me. They immediately came down to find me knocked out in an increasing pool of blood from a head wound. (As my niece descibed it--A CSI moment).
I was whisked off by ambulance to a great hospital (so thankful for that) where I spent 2 solid weeks, with 10 rib breaks, a shattered left wrist and forearm, head laceration and a dislocated and fractured clavicle. Head was stitched during surgery to operate on wrist/arm. A fixator was put on my wrist with pins down into my wrist. 2nd surgery was a chest tube for fluid in the lung. I had much therapy. You never go to a hospital for rest as someone is checking you every hour or 2, even at night.
Here is the miracle---neither knee replacement was damaged, my neck was not broken and my spinal fusion from my teen years, remained intact.
We remained in MI for 1 month and returned home to CO on 4/21. I was back in hospital here for Vertigo on 4/23-24.
Things can happen in life that change our focus and slow us down—obviously there was no business done on my part, for the month of April. I am starting slowly to get back to business in May. I have one more surgery to remove the fixator and pins from my wrist. I will remain on oxygen for a few weeks--remember this is higher altitude.
Never take Life for Granted! Following are a couple of quotes worth thinking about!
If you have a life changing event, please share it with us!
Being alive is loving being alive! Judith Alligim
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
Art Linkletter
Your outcome has much to do with your attitude.
Life is made up of many changes; and no state, be it bright or clouded , will always continue. Spurgeon
OK –now it is back to business. Don’t forget those Lawn Displays for Graduation.
Have a Good Spring!
Marty Miller, business owner, author, artist
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I am so glad you lived to tell about it. My eyes about bugged out of my head when I read the part where you fell down the stairs! I know this blog post is from 2010 & it's 2013 right now, but I hope you are doing okay and that everything is going well where you are.
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