Is It Timing or Fate?

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Twisted Sister Meg here–back in beautiful Caddo Mills.

Thank you, Twisted Sister Susan, for keeping the blog going while I was on my travels, and trials.

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary, and I have probably picked out one of the worst gifts ever to Don. This may top the shotgun he always wanted that he gave me for birthday a few years ago. Even better than the Wii console I gave him for birthday last year. I bought the Guitar Hero World Tour band set. Amy is thrilled, and good man that Don is, he told me he was excited. {I heard the relieved sigh when he spotted the socks and tidy whities at the bottom of the pillowcase I usedfor a sack.}

The timing part is the problem. On Thursday night, he tripped over a 350 SB Chevy engine with long tail transmission, hit the McPhoenix roll cage first with his right shoulder, bounced off, slammed into the roll cage again with his left shoulder, then crashed onto the floor. When I see him in a prone “stick ‘em up” position and not moving, I go into rescue mode. The ambulance misses our house despite my signals, then they spend an hour trying to start an IV so Don can be transported to the ER.

Awesome Amy called the ER and had one of her fav doctor ready for Don when he arrived. Thanks to Dr Pierce for setting both shoulders even though it sounded like ripping a turkey leg off. Don’s injury is not common, and when my husband does something, he doesn’t go half way! There haven’t been too many documented double shoulder dislocations, so now I understand why there were 12 people in the treatment room.  Took 4 nurses to finally get an IV started in the top of his foot.

Giving Don drugs is quite amusing except for the fact that he was in pain. Thank goodness he didn’t hallucinate like he did with his knee replacement.     We cracked jokes with the staff, laughed that it was a new shirt that the EMT cut the shoulders out, watched the finale of Project Runway, although Don kept asking where Ms. Jay was. As far ER visits go, this one was relatively short and the care excellent.

Still. . .having Don hurt wasn’t the way we wanted to spend our special day. But it is just a day and part of the adventure of our marriage–I’ve got my own purple smurf. I’m sure we’ll have time to get really good on Guitar Hero and have that special drive in the country in the ‘Vette.

 

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