[Nfb-krafters-korner] I can't believe it!

[David Andrews]

Sorry to hear of your troubles.  I broke the same bone in my foot, in 
Baltimore -- but not wells street.  I think it was Chase street, but 
it has been a number of years -- so who knows.

Dave

At 08:08 PM 9/14/2014, you wrote:
>Report in from Maryland.  I am not a happy person.  Cindy Z. and  I went to
>Baltimore to the NFB for a "Leaders and Ledger seminar.  I feel  we did
>learn some things and had the opportunity to meet Presidents 
>and  treasurers of
>affiliates and divisions.  Next week they will be having the  other half of
>these folks come in for the same thing.
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>They even wanted us to be filmed in an advertisement for the Green
>collection that NFB has joined in to make some fund raising money.
>
>This is the bad part...  While walking out to the area that they  planned
>on filming us, stepping off the curb on Wells Street I managed to fall  down
>in the street.  I scraped my arm and got all worked up that I  hurt my ankle
>that I had broken.    They went into the NFB and  came out with a wheel
>chair and put me in it.  I went back to the meeting  and sat there with a bag
>of ice on my annkle I had broken and finally got out of  that stupid boot.
>When we had a break toward the latter part of the  afternoon, I got up out of
>the wheelchair to walk to the bathroom.  Well my  foot on the right side
>really hurt.[not the left side that was broken  before]  We went to 
>eat supper
>and then back to the room.  We had  another meeting to go to in the
>evening, but after getting out of the shoe,  Cindy told me my foot 
>was black and
>blue and swollen on the right side.  I  decided to stay off my feet and
>basically went to bed.  Saturday it still  hurt, but I went to all 
>the meetings
>and stayed in the wheel chair  Sunday  it still was hurting, my blood sugars
>sky rocketed so I called my son before I  left for the airport to tell him I
>wanted him to take me to the hospital or at  least for an x-ray.  We drove
>to Stratford and went straight to the Med Now  [walk in center].  It was
>empty at 4 PM.  I asked them if they take my  insurance as there was 
>a sign that
>they don't wait for medicare payments.   Well they told me I needed to pay
>the $50 co pay and bill the rest to my  insurance.  My son hinted that would
>be the best spent $50 due to not  having to wait hours in the emergency
>room.
>
>The bad news is, I broke my 5th metatarsal bone.  The good news is I  can
>wear this wooden shoe and walk on it.
>
>Yep, it hurts, but I can live with it and some Advil.  Just need to  stay
>on top of the blood sugars[broken bones spike blood sugars]
>
>The only problem I seem to be facing is since May I have been telling
>myself good foot up the stairs, bad foot down the stairs.  I did 
>have that  down
>well, but now feet switch leaves me standing and not knowing what foot to
>lead with...
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>My sons think I shouldn't leave the house any more.  I tend to agree  with
>them right now.  If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck  at all.
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>Joyce
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         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org