The hat that elbowed its way past me
Wednesday December 26th 2018, 10:46 pm
Filed under: Family,Knit,Life

Saturday night I was taking something out of the cupboard and hit my elbow hard on the big wooden cutting board leaning against the side of the fridge there.

At least it wasn’t the one dedicated to chopping chocolate. That would have just been too cruel.

After a bit of Google, I was in no hurry to get it seen. It’s too late tonight. If it’s broken it’ll be worse tomorrow and that’ll tell us. No, no, it’s Sunday–let people have their day of rest. Who wants to bother anybody on Christmas Eve? C’monnn, on Christmas? It’ll get better.

Or not.

Which is why I finally went in today.

A splint *will* happen, said the search results. Period. The new doctor? Not so much. He was willing to have it x-rayed but if it was just a hairline then all they would do is tell me to be careful. Otherwise, he was talking surgery (suddenly a splint didn’t sound so bad.) But he didn’t think so.

There was that rib he didn’t think was broken a few months ago that turned out to actually be displaced. I’m the one who doesn’t always feel pain as much as I should, remember?

Right.

He may have called us afterwards while we we were still out, running errands; we came home to the answering machine having been bumped into the no messages position, so we’ll just have to wait till tomorrow, again. But at least we’ll know.

Meantime, having started this hat something like an hour before all this began, a few minutes before we left for the appointment I finally finished it–just in case I wouldn’t be able to afterwards. Remembering the six weeks of not being allowed to knit after I broke my hand (um, I made it to four) and after the frustration of this taking me too many days because it did not feel great to work on, I was going to get it finished before they could tell me I couldn’t. And I did. (Minus weaving in the ends.) So there.


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Oh….ouch!! Hoping and praying you get good news and that you give your arm the rest it deserves.

Comment by Ruth 12.26.18 @ 11:05 pm

Pretty hat! I hope your elbow is nothing serious – no knitting is a terrible way to live.

Comment by suburbancorrespondent 12.27.18 @ 7:26 am

A few years ago I broke my elbow and required surgery to place a pin and then required a second surgery to remove the pin. The time between insertion and removal was a mess, but once removed I have had no additional problems (including no arthritis which is sort of expected). Hope you don’t have to go that route! Stay well and be careful!

Comment by Christine Pereira 12.27.18 @ 7:45 am

I hope you gave your cutting board a good talking to.

Comment by LauraN 12.30.18 @ 9:59 pm



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