slight change of plans

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:15:18 GMT

Everyone is basically OK, but we thought about how we're feeling today, and have postponed the Thanksgiving meal until tomorrow: I fell last night at about 5 a.m. (I think I slipped on a rug in the bathroom, while getting up after using the toilet.) After getting up and checking that nothing major was wrong, I spent most of an hour applying ice packs to various parts of my body in the hope of preventing bruising. We keep two ice packs in the freezer, a good compromise between wanting to have multiple ice packs for when we need them, and not crowding out all the other things that we want to keep in the freezer. I tried going back to bed, and discovered more tender spots, so I got up again, took a naproxen, and iced whichever spots seemed to need it most.

The next time I went back to bed, I did fall asleep, for about an hour and a half. The ice packs and naproxen seem to have helped a lot, but I am somewhat stiff, in addition to the lost sleep.

The other "how we're feeling today" is that cattitude slept badly two nights running. Our Thanksgiving meal is just the three of us, so changing plans won't disappoint or inconvenience anyone else. Adrian made a frittata for tonight's supper, and tomorrow we will roast a duck and a pan of root vegetables, and eat cranberry relish and an apple crisp and I think a wild rice salad.

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fell again, no visible injury

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:53:28 GMT

I fell last night, after waking up to go to the bathroom, and landed partly on my knees. The scabbed-over right knee looks no different this morning than last night, and landing on it hurt less than touching it did a week ago. But this seems worth recording.

Possibly relevant: I had shoved my feet into shoes (without socks) rather than my slippers, and they fit differently. Usually, when I wear those shoes, I put on socks, and tie the laces. My feet have been bothering me on and off for days, and this morning it feels like there might be a bit of new bruising on top of my right foot.

"Again" in this case means, twice in less than two weeks. Doctors tend to ask if a patient has fallen two or more times in the past year.

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slight change of plans

fell again, no visible injury