I call a do-over on Monday

[annathepiper]

So, first week of radiation done, no problems, right? I got into work this morning, feeling fine all up until it's time to go to lunch...

... at which point, on my way into the Whole Foods, I tripped on the three shallow stairs leading up to the entrance and sprawled into the pile of firewood bundles right next to the doors. I knocked one bundle off. I took the impact on my knees, my right elbow--and my head. I'm not entirely sure whether I bonked my head on the firewood or on the pavement, but either way, ow.

I heard somebody cry out "accident" inside, and about two seconds after I was done, a clerk came running out to see if I was okay. I told him I thought so, though I had to sit there for a few moments with my head in my hands, trying to get my shit back together. Eventually I made it to my feet and into the store, at which point at least three other clerks all asked if I was okay and that they needed to make sure before they let me out of the store. I told them all I intended to get something to eat and then to sit all nice and quiet-like in their eating area. Which I did.

Once I had some food in me I made it back up the hill to the Times building, but back at my workstation, I started feeling a little sick and queasy. So as per my boss' suggestion, I went out again to the little clinic down at the corner and asked their staff if somebody in there could look me over. I filled out paperwork, waited a bit, and finally got seen by a young doctor in there; he checked my eyes and my reflexes and did a basic neurological exam of me, and pronounced me eventually okay aside from bumps and bruises. No concussion or anything. I have only a couple of abraded bits on my knees and elbow, but I've got a visible bump on my forehead, just under my hairline, and the headache to go with. Ow.

So I went back to work and sat there real quiet-like, just filing bugs and stuff, until it was time to head to zappy. After the zap, I was due anyway to have my weekly status check with Dr. Taylor, so I made sure and asked him and the nurse if there was any possibility that I might be showing early fatigue symptoms yet. I haven't felt tired yet--but then, I'm not normally spectacularly clumsy, either. They think it's too early for fatigue to set in.

So I guess I get to chalk up today to a critical failure on my Dex roll. Stupid dice. I demand a reroll.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

::HUGS::

I think you definitely deserve to do this day over.

[annathepiper]

*hugs!* Thank you. :)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Owie. Ask me sometime about how I fell into a fireplace.

[annathepiper]

Ouch back at you! So tell me, how did you fall into a fireplace?

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Well, it might suck to have to own up to a moment of incompetence, but I'd definitely take a one-off of that over side effects, so I guess, er, to look on the cheery side, congratulations on the diagnosis! Or something :-)

[annathepiper]

Indeed. ;) I was thinking it was way too damned early for me to really be feeling any side effects, but just to be on the safe side, I wanted to ask 'em about it.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I demand a reroll.

Damn skippy!

Or, maybe "roll" is the wrong word... *wry grin*

Take care, eh? *hugs*

[annathepiper]

Thanks! *snugs* The plan for the evening is to remain mostly horizontal, and most likely, go to bed early.

[waterowl.livejournal.com]

Owie. Hugs. While on chemo and for several months afterwards, my son had such critical failures when he had low blood sugar. Of course one of the side effects of many is low appetite. :P

[annathepiper]

I haven't noticed any appetite problems yet, though this was right before lunch. And since I'm getting up 45 minutes earlier, I'm also taking my thyroid meds 45 minutes earlier... which in turn has been making me hungrier by lunchtime. So there's all sorts of reasons I could have been a little unsteady. Whee!

Hugs back, though. :)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I'm glad this turned out to just be a moment of massive bad luck on my part. I can live with being sore for the next day or two. :) Though I may have to pay closer attention to how I feel before lunch, for a while! *snugs!*

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Ouch! *hug*

I managed to twist my ankle really badly the other night, and as I stood there bent over in the driveway gasping for breath and feeling afraid to put weight on the foot, all I could think was, "Good lord, just what I need -- another stint in the hospital!" *half-smile* Fortunately the pain faded, but queasiness and nausea? oh yes. pain sucks.

[annathepiper]

Ouch indeed, and right back at you, about the ankle! *snugs!*

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think my friend who works at Whole Foods was one of the clerks helping you to your feet, though of course I have no real idea! Good luck healing up, and I'm glad you went in to make sure you were OK.

[annathepiper]

If your friend at Whole Foods is a guy, I dunno, it might have been! There was a dude working the registers right by the door, and a couple others that came up to me as I wobbled through the store to get lunch.

And thanks! I think I'll be fine by tomorrow. I'm mostly fine now, just a little stiff and sore. :)

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Ayuh, it is too early for the fatigue to set in. Worth noting is that radiolytic syndrome is transient and fully reversible (at least up to a practical limit, that you are very unlikely to reach given your relative youth).

Glad you bounce well.

And on the other side of the drawbridge, I note that the chemo has not affected my ability to run like a bat out of hell when the mine starts (ahem) "dynamically converging in an unscheduled mode". So there's that bright hope.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I've got a bit of extra padding, so I think that helps with the bouncing. ;) *cleverly avoids mentioning that said extra padding is not anywhere where I actually took the impact, yesterday!*

And yay for chemo not messing with your running!

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Bounce is good, in any case.

Was just commenting to Little Boss (the Cute Guy our here) that we are doomed to always gain weight in parts that do not need any additional padding, and lose weight in parts that we'd rather not see any smaller than they already are. Blame the cussedness of mammalian biology for that latter point....

My oncologist continues to echo the notion that attitude is key -- and that's of course why the B.C. Cancer Society hands out those lovely silver Survivor pins. Every time I pin that on, it gives a certain boost to my internal batteries.

Hangeth in there!

Oh, and gank the user-icon if'n you want: I just snapped a digi-pic of the pin and squared it up a bit in P/Shop.

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

I thought I was suppose to be the clumsy one in the family. :)

Glad to hear that things weren't too bad, considering. Is there a way of keeping a sort of snack or something of that nature at your desk at work -- not necessarily to avoid having the munchies but to keep up your blood sugar?

[annathepiper]

Oh, I already keep a cache of stuff at my workstation, I've got some Clif bars I keep in a drawer. And I often have dark chocolate as well. Good stuff, organic, that you can get at the aforementioned Whole Foods. :) Clearly, I may need to invoke the cache a bit more often, at least in the mornings!

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}}

Not recently, but I've had those botched DEX rolls a few times myself. Worst was probably a decade or so back now, I broke one ankle (with sprained ligaments on that side) and sprained the other ankle at the same time stepping backwards off a curb. Cast on one foot, brace on the other, then a brace on the cast side while the ligaments healed. Couple of months later fell down a flight of stairs and re-sprained the same ankle I'd busted.

At least nothing was broken or majorly injured this time. :)

[annathepiper]

Ow ow ow ow about the ankle thing!

But yeah, I'm glad it was just bumps and bruises. I can live with being sore for another day or two, though I suspect I may need a nice hot soak tonight when I get home. :)

[damara.livejournal.com]

Oh, owwie. *snugs*

[annathepiper]

Owie indeed! *snugs back* Feeling better by now, thankfully. :)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Stuff like that happens to me all the time. Ask me about how I dislocated my shoulder with a sneeze. ;-)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, but as I mentioned to you on the MUSH, it ain't normal for me. Also, dislocating your shoulder with a powerful sneeze ain't exactly the same thing as being a klutz--unless the sneeze blew you off your own feet and into a wall? ;)

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

That sucks. I'm sorry.

You totally should have taken 10* to avoid having to make the dex roll at all.

*d20 D&D concept. Lame game mechanics jokes are not guaranteed for all versions.

[annathepiper]

Hee, thanks! Monday's DM is officially FIRED. However, Wednesday's has made up for Monday and then some. ;)

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

I so hate those sudden gusts of gravity. Though with me it's usually a case of "the dropsies" rather than falling down. One advantage of being short and fat... low center of gravity, y'know?

Hope you're feeling better!

HH

[annathepiper]

Two days after the fact I'm still a little sore, but feeling quite a a bit better, yeah! Thanks. :)

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: Glad you're okay, though. At least you have a good reason for falling down...tripping over steps is allowable reason. I quite frequently trip over nothing and fall on my face. The only excuse I have is that I'm a dancer...teach us to dance, we forget how to walk :D

[annathepiper]

*hugs!* Thanks hon. :) And yeah, I'm really grateful I didn't give myself a concussion! If I'd slammed into that firewood any harder, I might well have done!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

HUGS

[annathepiper]

*hugs back!* Thank you. :)

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I'm glad you're okay!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, me too! :) Thanks!

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. :( What a fucked up situation. OOPS did I just rated-R your journal?

[annathepiper]

Hah, worry not, I swear around here all the time! ;)

And it could have been worse, I guess! I could have actually given myself a concussion! Two days after the fact, I'm still a bit sore but feeling quite a bit better.

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

You poor thing.

{{ Hugs }}

[annathepiper]

Aww, thank you. :) *hugs back!*

Two days after the fact and I'm still a little sore, but feeling better!

[annathepiper]

Yowtch, glad it was a quiet street you fell over in!

And heh, yesterday the same clerks at the checkout counter near the door doublechecked to see if I was okay. I sheepishly remarked that I hadn't gone tripping over anything. ;) I'm still a bit sore and stiff but I think I'll be fine by the end of the week!