gaylejackson2 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:56 am
Hello friends,
Am sitting in bed, typing as usual. However, Dh told me to stay in bed, which is not usual. Here’s the backstory:
Yesterday started out like any other day. I got up early at 4:30 AM with hubby, made his lunch and breakfast, I sent him on his way. Went back to bed for an hour until it was full daylight, then went outside to start weeding my garden. About 7:30 AM DS 11 came outside to complain about his sister not letting him on the computer, and I suggested he take a bike ride to kill a little time until it was his turn to use the computer. However when he came back from his bike ride, he came grumbling and huffing over to me where I was still weeding in the garden, and threw himself against one of the fence posts that supported my bailing twine been fence. As the garden had recently been watered in the early morning hours, the post promptly gave away. I scolded him, then suggested he go get the post pounder so I could fix the post and fence. However I soon discovered the post would not reset in that spot as the ground was just too soft. So I move the post over a few inches, and as I was raising and lowering the post pounder onto the steel fence post, one time I raised up the post pounder too high which was unexpected so it came back over and the entire length of the post pounder and landed directly on the top of my head. These things are heavy welded steel, around 30-40 pounds, and the weight of it slammed against the top of my head and I fell to the ground. I did send up yet my post finished but by then I was very frustrated with the whole situation, I actually started crying a little bit. I sent DS 11 into the house finished fixing my bean fence, take the post powder back to the garage and stopped working in the garden for the day.
All of this occurred before 830 in the morning, so when I went into the house was a tremendously aching head, my girls were still gung ho about the pool party they were expecting to go to. I was really hurting by then but did not want to disappoint them, so I just asked various children to help me out by getting the things that we needed gathered, including sandwiches made for our picnic lunch.
The short of the story is, we did go to the pool party, I spent most of the time sitting in the shade praying that my painkillers would kick in soon, and talking to the other moms. Later I went to town and met with my friend to go over details of her attending my girls this coming school year while I substitute teach, then that DH at his doctors appointment, then return books at the library, then came home. I felt so utterly wiped out, my head had continued to throb and ache all day long despite having taken some highly concentrated powerful ibuprofen and Tylenol medication together,. I asked DS 16 to make dinner for us, what’s grumbled about but finally did.
Then we had a Kirby vacuum salesman show up, I feel sorry for him so I agreed to let him come into the house and do his vacuum demonstration but along the way DH became very intrigued by the vacuum, and started hinting around that maybe we should listen seriously to this guy as he showed us all of the different attachments and parts of the vacuum. The H was especially intrigued by the fast amount of dirt and dog hair and dust bunnies that were being pulled out of our carpet in about a 2 ft.² area. So when the salesman kept making these deals, DH kept hinting to me that I should listen seriously. The gist of it is we ended up with the brand-new Kirby vacuum, or rather the one that they had been doing the demo with, which had been used about seven hours previously to them coming to our house, still pretty brand new.
Fast forward to today, DH insist that I stay in bed, not even look at or touch the new vacuum today. Considering that yesterday I also discovered that TOMT had arrived at approximate the same time I whacked myself over the head with the post pounder, I have two different sets of pain going on, yes I may stay right here in bed today. Once again I’ve taken pain reliever, almost 1 hour ago and it is not yet taking the edge off the aching head.
So plans for today, stay in bed, and/or sit on the couch with a blanket, try to keep the kids from going freaking crazy, trying to nap a little more, stay out of the garden, maybe set a sprinkler in the really dry lawn areas next to the garden however, and hopefully get some shopping done in about 4 hours with ds14 along to help me.
Am going to read or knit (maybe) today, anything else to keep my head held still (other than going out to put a sprinkler on at sunrise for half hour while air is still cool, then back to bed).
Not sure on dinner; I REALLY want hamburger stew, but not sure how to make it candida-friendly too.
I used my voice-recording app, so I hope you understand this. I cannot focus clearly enough on my small iPhone screen this morning.