I call a do-over on Monday
Dec. 10th, 2007 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo, 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.
... 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.
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Date: 2007-12-11 02:41 pm (UTC)And yay for chemo not messing with your running!
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Date: 2007-12-11 06:54 pm (UTC)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.