Just call me Gracie

Well this was not the start of a good day, but turned out to be much better. This morning, when my alarm went off, I decided to do my husband a favor and let the dog out so he could sleep. She was ready to go out and wouldn't wait until after my shower. So halfway down the stairs, I slip on the carpeting and go crashing down to the second to last step, then had to scoot on my butt to the first step and then to the floor. I yelled for my husband, because my foot was swollen and I had heard a loud "crack/snap" before I finished falling. I had also seen my foot in a direction it wasn't supposed to be in. That kind of scared me. So after calling my mother-in-law, who is a nurse in Ohio, we headed to the ER in Novi. Called my mom along the way, who said she'd pick up a shower chair for me, because I knew I couldn't stand up at this point long enough to get clean. So in the ER, we got a wheelchair for me right from the start, because walking would have been painful and taken all day. Didn't wait too long in the room, and the x-rays were done by the time my husband had to leave to take the dog to the vet.

The doctor came in shortly later, or should I say, meant me in the hallway where they left me, and told me that I had, in fact, broken my ankle bone and fractured another one. Wonderful. But I have some Vicidin to take and an appointment with a foot doctor recommended by the hospital to put my foot in an actual cast. Meanwhile, I have a splint made of fiberglass on that can't get wet or have weight on it or it will crack.

For three or four weeks I will have a cast, depending on how long it takes for the break to heal. Let's see what's going on in the next three to four weeks: I am leaving my current job next Tuesday and start my new job the following Monday; my husband starts his new job on Monday; I start classes again the beginning of April; our friends from Australia are coming in for Easter until April something; we have a wedding April 5 in Ohio; I have Altar Guild meeting minutes April 7; I'm on Altar duty Easter morning 7:00am, Easter Sunday in Ohio, and the day before in Novi. In short, this was not the greatest of timing.

But, like I said, my husband got a phone call today and an offer for a position about 10 minutes from my new job. So he will have steady income again, and we can carpool. I just worry about our dog being home alone for almost 12 hours a day, as compared to 10 hours she was, and now with my husband at home, she wasn't alone all day. We'll work something out. We were both thinking the neighborhood kids could get paid to check in on her, and there's also Camp BowWow, down the road from my work.