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Aging is a Slap Stick Sport
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Have you seen the Grace and Frankie episode where Jane Fonda/Grace falls and can’t get up, then Lily Tomlin/Frankie gets pulled down trying to help and then they both can’t get up? It’s slapstick humor at its best. Yeah, that’s about right in my world.
I’m one of those people. Also one who laughs in the face of adversity. HAHA adversity, I laugh in your face.
That’s come in handy the last three days. On the Saturday before the 4th of July, I slipped on a step into a parking lot and fell. No big deal. I’m a martial artist. I know how to fall.
You’d think. You would be wrong.
Somehow, in one simple trip and fall, I managed to break both ankles.
I’m talented in so many more ways than just writing.
Fortunately my niece was with me and she, along with a guy from the place we had just left, lifted me into the car and she insisted we go to the ER. Good thing for me she didn’t inherit my throw caution to the wind attitude.
Not that I wasn’t pretty darned sure it was broken. You can sometimes bear weight briefly on a sprain, as I knew from many years of dance and Aikido. Not so much on a broken ankle. I wasn’t sure about one of them, but I could feel bones…
