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

[ramona walhof]

Joyce, I'm glad you are tough. But three is the limit. Your luck has to change. Ramona

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> On Sep 14, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The bad news is, I broke my 5th metatarsal bone.  The good news is I  can 
> wear this wooden shoe and walk on it.
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> 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]
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> 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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