Day 2, crutches

 Fortunately they cancelled classes today despite the roads being clear - they wanted to divert as much power/heating as possible to the dorms to protect the students (which tells me the classroom buildings will be cold tomorrow, oh well, and no way I can carry my space heater with me with crutches and an immobilizer on).

This morning, after eating and dressing, I walked back to my back closet (using the crutches, and even though it's maybe 30' from here in my living room to there, it wore me out). I hung a tote bag around my neck and grabbed my remaining 3 pairs of clean stretchy pants (on the grounds that a) they are easier to wear with the immobilizer and b) I don't want my nice tights snagged by the velcro on the immobilizer and c) it's been a few days since I shaved my legs, and will probably be a few more before I can). So I have clothes for a couple days and I can probably do some laundry between now and then

I took care of a few things today. I had texted Dana to see if she'd be my ride again and she was happy to. So first of all she asked me if I needed food and I said that well, I wouldn't mind grabbing lunch somewhere (She'd already eaten but drove me to a local good Mexican place and sat with me while I ate the chicken enchiladas I bought - and there was enough that I could take the leftovers home and heat them up tomorrow evening for dinner. Food is a problem now, it's harder to fix anything). 

Then to the local health-aid store, which is inside the pharmacy I use: I wanted a shower chair, because there's no way I could safely stand in the shower for now. I got one that works. They didn't have the long shoehorns that I wanted, but I ordered one from Amazon that should be here Thursday. For now, I can wear simpler shoes and put them on before putting the immobilizer on (Even though I prefer to be a shoes-off house, for now I will keep shoes on for as long as I have the immobilizer on during the day - I'm allowed to take it off to sleep and while resting but am supposed to wear it while moving around).

And a stop at my doctor's office; she had filled out the paperwork needed to get me a handicapped parking tag for campus, which is probably the most important thing I need. (I plan tomorrow or Thursday to try to reserve a "pick up at curb" order time from Wal mart for either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. I'll have to be careful what I request so I don't have too many heavy things to transport into the house and maybe I use my field backpack to carry the stuff in into the house)

Campus police was not open so I'll have to do that tomorrow. 

I did pay her back a tiny bit - my Christmas present from my brother finally came; it was a box of the fancy extra-good Hale Farms oranges, so I handed her one for herself and one for the son who lives with her (That also means I'll probably be able to eat them up before they go bad - and they are very good, I had one with dinner)

Later, the mail arrived LATE - it was already getting dark and I had given up and showered. But I texted my across-the-street neighbors (thinking they were maybe out of town; I'd not seen any activity) to let them know of my injury and to ask about mail. The woman brought my mail up to me and the rest of this week I SHOULD be able to grab it myself from my car when I get home before turning in to my driveway. Also, her husband will take the wheelie bin back up for me after trash pick up (Dana had dragged it down; I figured failing anything else I could loop a belt through the back handle and pull it behind myself back up to the house)

But right now I'm really tired. No, I have not really done any knitting these past couple days - too much pain and too tired. The pain is getting to be less and I can see I really didn't do myself MAJOR damage and maybe in a week or two I can either ditch the crutches or really reduce how much I have to use them.  I planned it out so I can take a dose of Tylenol before bed (I don't like to take very much off it; it can be bad for your liver) and hopefully I will sleep well again tonight. (I slept a LOT better last night, and not having to set an alarm because campus was closed, I actually slept in until 7, which is really late for me. I"m thinking I better get up at 5:30 tomorrow to buy enough time for the slow process of dressing and eating with crutches/wheely chair and to allow myself maybe 20 minutes for the walk out to my car (it normally takes 2)

I keep telling myself when the crutches gripe me that I'm grateful not to be facing arthroscopic surgery or similar.....

I'm a little concerned about the long walk out to my garage and trying to get into my car but if I just can't, Dana would drive me, or I could text the secretary and see if she can come get me. I don't teach until 10 am but plan to leave here before 8 (to get a good close spot). I'll also need a bag for my purse and my lunch kit. I figure over at the building it will be fine; there will be people to help if I can't do everything myself, and possibly I could repurpose a rolling chair to get myself up and down the halls if the crutches seem too daunting.