The other day I was thinking how nice it would be to take a vacation and to do absolutely nothing, but instead I slipped on some ice in front of my house and broke my kneecap. That’s not exactly what I wished for.

So here’s what happened. I was on my way out to my car to go to work. I thought I was being careful of the ice but I must have stepped right on it. I went down on my knee and heard it crack. After about five minutes of rolling around in pain on the sidewalk and trying to pull myself to my front door I decided to try the cell phone that was beeping at me the night before that the battery was dying. I had enough of a charge to call Pat and he came outside and carried me in the house. His parents came to watch the kids for us and he took me to Urgent Care. I couldn’t straighten my leg and informed the x-ray techs that if they tried to do it they would have to peel me off the ceiling, because it would hurt that bad. They took two x-rays with my knee bent and the head tech came over and said, “Ummm, yeah, you’re done. We don’t need anymore.” I asked if that was a good thing or a bad thing and she answered, “I can’t give you any information but don’t move your knee.” Here’s the x-ray:

They took me to my room and the doctor came in and said I broke my knee. He gave me two options, either we straighten my leg and put a brace on it or we leave it alone and I could try not to move my knee on my own. I let them straighten my leg and it wasn’t too bad. I’d didn’t hurt so much if I had my foot against something. They got the brace on and then gave me morphine. Yup, they straightened my leg then gave me morphine. Jerks. Anyway. I don’t get to see the orthopedic doctor till Monday, and I’m on pins and needles to find out if they will need to put pins and needles in my knee.

While I’m off I plan on catching up on my crochet projects because after all my arms still work. lol. Pictures of projects to follow soon!