Falling over and bobbly knees (by sarah)
I've been having issues with my knee randomly swelling up and being painful then something at the back went pop and it looks all bobbly. Bizarlly this is niggly painful and feels like there is a string being pulled in the back of my thigh. I'm assuming its a vien and am not looking forward to going to the drs again 🙁
The calf of the same leg is painful too.
Then in the last couple of days I have managed to fall down the stairs and then again in Cheltenham yesturday 🙁
I don't really know what happened - I'd got myself over tired taking Jean on all the fun free things in one of the parks and we had gone for hot chocolate to revieve us. Now I wanted to have another drink and sit for longer and maybe even sleep if I was at home but no - Jean still had fun things to do so we headed back (at my insistance - Al thought I was getting too tired).
I'm not sure if I slipped on ice, tripped over the curb or if like the stairs my legs just didn't do what my brain thought it had told them to do.
So I ended up laying on the pavement unable to get up with Al, and dad clustered around me and Jean telling passers bys that 'Mummy's fallen down'. The main problem being initially I couldn't say anything for pain - I'd put my hand out instinctively and had jarred it and my really bad shoulder. The arm, shoulder and my ribs hurt (not sure why the ribs hurt). Just rolling onto my back made my stupid pelvis go click.
A concernced lady and her duaghter stopped and wanted to call an ambulence - which sort of made me panic so I just said - 'No its just my stupid pelvis.' no thankyou or anything just dismissive behavoiur. On the off chance that she ever comes across this - Thankyou I was the lady in the rainbow jacket.
When I eventually got up right again I thought I was fine but could berarly walk 🙁 And the pain got worse.
I hate this - this is one of the reasons I don't walk along the foot paths on my own anymore.
I spent the rest of yesturday in a little ball of pain on the settee, doing heat treatments and what have you, then in a warm bath for hours - on the plus side it ment Alaric made the house a nice temperature for me.
Of course now my left arm is being all rubbery and my pelvis is mobile again - This does not make for a happy Sarah.
Mon 21st Dec 2009 11:17 am 
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By Ulrike, Mon 21st Dec 2009 @ 2:43 pm
hm, I think you should have taken up the offer and let this lady call an ambulance for you... 🙁 You know, just to check you over? To make sure you haven't got a hairline fracture in your arm or something stupid? A colleague of mine broke her ankle and continued working for another three weeks, making it alot worse because of that...
just saying.
Get better soon and stop hurting yourself!!!