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

[Henrietta Brewer]

Hey Joyce,
We don't have to go there. Our kids have to give us some room to grow as the "old widdows" we are. lol

You might need some more training and you surely need to get stronger. But we don't have to be shut ins.


On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner 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]
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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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