my last post to this blog was in 2008, I think and at that time I was in slight remission. however, here it is seven (7) years later and i'm still fighting the darkness. I am also in the healing process with my right foot from where I got hit by a car on January 25, 2013, and the young lady driving the car ran over my right foot and as a result from that, some bones got broken in my foot.
in truth, I think subconsciously I wanted to get hit by a car and die, because a whole lot of shit had been coming down on me left and right and my emotional state was in uproar. I have payday loans up the ass, and i'm a full-time grandma to four (4) kids, who I love dearly, but drive me up a wall.
how did it happen? I was coming across the street from the store and like an idiot, I had the hood of my coat over my face. I saw the car at a distance and thought I could make it but the next thing I knew I felt intense pain and my foot instantly swole up. The young lady who was driving the vehicle stopped and asked if I was alright and by then I was crying my eyes out and screaming like a maniac. But she stayed with me and made out her police report, and by that time the paramedics had came to take me to the nearest hospital, Jackson Park. I was still screaming and crying in dire, dire pain, and one of the paramedics slapped a cold pack on my foot, but it was still puffed up like a souffle' and it was like a living nightmare. after I calmed down a bit, I thanked the Lord for sparing my life, because I was very despondent before the accident. Thankfully, both of my daughters were there with me in the emergency room, along with a young lady that is a good friend of my older daughter.
right now I just want to run away from here, but, well, cant do that with a busted foot now can I? I am seeing a wound care doctor now because I'd had a huge blood blister on top of my foot from the impact of the car's tires. Prior to seeing the wound doc, I was admitted to JPH for a week, because it was really painful to even walk, and to me, it was a wasted stay because they really didn't do anything except give me pain meds to take the edge off. after I was discharged, I had a regular doc visit at Mercy Hospital (a REAL hospital, ok?) and when my doctor saw my foot, of course she asked what had happened, and when I unwrapped the Ace bandage and showed her the injury, she had me to go straight to the ER so the docs could look at the wound and do some more X-rays. while there, the ER doc made some small incisions on top of my foot which almost sent me thru the ceiling, but he was draining the bruised blood and blood clots out of my foot. he had also instructed me to pack the two incisions with Iodoform (it's a packing strip soaked in saline YEOWCH!) and make an appointment to see the wound care doctor for follow up. I did, and when the wound doc saw my poor mangled foot she immediately went to work to cut off all the surrounding dead skin from where the blood blister had been and then (Lord Jesus, help me) she started cutting out the necrotic (dead) skin and opened up a hole the size of a Ping-Pong ball and began packing it again. she gave me instructions on how to do it and I was to come back the next week for follow-up.
i see her again this Wednesday, and now i'm wearing this huge Frankenstein-looking walking boot as opposed to a cast. JPH had given me crutches, but i couldn't maneuver well at all with those, so i was able to get a walker from the daughter of the elderly lady i used to work for (btw she passed away in October of last year, God rest her soul) and that was a lot better. now with this cumbersome boot i can use my cane to walk with.
I thank God every day that He spared my life. I may be crip-walking, but dammit, i'm walking.
still fighting the darkness too. wont let it get the best of me. i'm just stubborn that way.
Monday, March 04, 2013
I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!
hello fellow bloggers it's me mizeeyore. i'm back in blogland and happy to reconnect with the friends
I had come to know. some of you have moved on to different things; some have not. the reason why
I had stopped blogging was that at the time I had no home computer. Anyways, I just thought I would say hello and that I will be back on the
I had come to know. some of you have moved on to different things; some have not. the reason why
I had stopped blogging was that at the time I had no home computer. Anyways, I just thought I would say hello and that I will be back on the
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