Yesterday.....

Think Beatles.

I had a really lazy day yesterday, feeling I had earned it after such an unaccustomed late night.

I have just started Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader and it promises to be another excellent read.

So, anyway, I had my evening meal. There has been some debate here over whether this is dinner, supper or tea. I tend to regard dinner as a more formal meal usually taken in the company of others and supper when I eat on my own. Lunch is a meal eaten at mid day. High tea is an old Scottish custom and involves something like fish and chips and peas with some bread and butter on the side.

So there!

So, after I had finished my meal, washed and dried the dishes and put them away, I started to prepare for bedtime.

This involves shutting down the computer, removing the three stuffed toys from my bed and putting them on my bedside stool; removing the 2 cushions from my bed and putting them on my super duper typist chair; removing the day blanket from my bed, folding it and putting it on my bedside stool.

Thus my ‘study’ is converted into my ‘bedroom’. I went through to the living room to read for a bit and then returned to my bedroom to close the curtains and take my medications It was not yet bedtime at all but I love to have everything ready and just quietly read before going to bed an hour or so later.

Then I noticed that the ‘num lock’ light on the keyboard was lit, so I hadn’t switched off the computer. So I leant across the cushions and started the ‘start, shutdown’ process when I lost my balance and fell. With that I knocked the monitor onto the floor and broke off the holder for the piece of wood that pushes to left or right for left hand or right hand use of the mouse.

So then I tried to get up.

And tried.

And tried.

And tried.

In the end I had to admit defeat and call for help; the Careline people sent for an ambulance and a lovely paramedic and technician arrived. They got me on my feet and sat me down on my chair and took my obs. Both they and I agreed that I did not require to go to hospital, but they said I should see my GP as perhaps I needed a zimmer frame. One of them even got the monitor and put it back

Then they saw my face.


I said that my GP had already referred to the County Falls Response Service, but that I had heard nothing from them. The men asked if I owned the flat and I said that my son did. Ah, apparently the Service attends only home owners.

?????

I didn't like to put wtf here, but saw that jobbingdoctor gave

wtf = what on earth.

(This reminded me of Computing for Dummies which gave

RTFM = Read The Manual)


I think that, even if I had had a zimmer it wouldn’t have stopped me falling as I would have let go to bend over. The big mistake was to bend over at all and this is a lesson that I really need to learn. I cannot bend sideways at all, especially to the left.

I had to get up in the middle of the night to take more pain killers and slept not too badly considering.

This morning I am a bit sore but very lucky to have survived another fall with no fractures. Even the computer is in full working order.

And my 2 lovely cleaners have been and picked up all the stuff that went to the floor along with the monitor and also re-hung one of the curtains which was hanging off the rail.