Long Hard winter !

• Posted by Karen Elena Tea April 24, 2019 824 views
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  Well its been a long winter for me and in my last blog  I wrote about the lose of my  Mother .  I ve had some tough times before but nothing like I had this past Winter . It's true That I live in the "Great White North "  and  this winter I was reminded of this .  We got so much snow that it reminded me of years gone by when you go so much snow it made things difficult .  Somedays was a  "Challenge " for me  physically and for good reason … I slipped and fell on some black Ice and tore my quad MCL from the right knee bone .  Never in my life had I ever suffered such pain as this and physical challenges before . After spending 3 days in hospital and doing repair surgery I made it home and I had to face my first challenge .  In order to gain entry to my home I have 6 steps to my front door and it was one  painful climb but with help . Then it was the daily tasks of how to manage to do things in my home alone and with use of a walker one painful step at a time .  My First night at home was hard because I slept on a waterbed and I could not get comphy because the pain I was in . The hardest part was when I had to get up to use the washroom at the other end of the house and I could not get out of bed . It was a good thing that I remember how to shimmy myself over to my office chair and then to my walker . Its been three months now since this all has unfolded till now  and I am in a knee brace now . I hoping to be walking better without  a limp and a  "click" sound from the brace soon .  All this has not stopped me  from "Dressing " and beeing me but it has made me abit leery of falling and hurting myself .  I should mention that I had fallen a seconed time two weeks after surgery and tore the repair that was done so I had to re do everything . All so I had fallen at the hospital as I was heading to the triage and smacked my right hand on the concrete floor  and factured and dis located my right thumb . I'm happy that the Dr that redid my repair all so fixed my thumb as I was a sleep .  So I'm hoping from now  on that things go better for me and no more  snow  till December !!