Broken Face...

[nowalmart]

Yeah, so I broke my face.

On Friday I was subbing for the elementary school PE teacher. About noon I was racing a couple of third grade girls on their warm up lap. There is no way to put this where I do not sound like an idiot, but I ran, full speed, into a horizontal pole right at eye level.

The next few hours are all a bit spotty (I remember about two minutes out of the next six hours or so), but I ended up spending the night in the hospital. I was sent home on Saturday with a diagnosis of two fractures around my eye socket.

In addition, I had one hell of a black eye.

I am now on at least two weeks strict bedrest. Due to swelling I have not been able to wear my glasses for the past four days and, as a result, I am pretty well blind. This means no television, no reading, no computer. It has been frustrating, to say the least.

Anyway, if I have been out of touch this past week, that is why. Feel free to contact me on my cell phone if you need to get ahold of me.

Comments

[beforeigo.livejournal.com]

EEP! Hope you're okay.

[toreinne.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, that's awful, but it triggered the laughter response.

I'm so sorry!

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

Quite alright. When I start telling people the store I always preface it with "There is no way to tell this story without me seeming like a huge idiot, but..."

[pyrona.livejournal.com]

Gyaaaah, that sounds fucking hideous. Please to not be breaking yourself >< Feel better!

OW!!!

[ariel72.livejournal.com]

They already have the decorations with the witches at halloween you put on trees.. it shouldn't have happened to you.. ow.. well take care of yourself.. hugs and hope you feel better soon.. Dammn..

Feel better soon.

[snowfreak.livejournal.com]

touche'. and i think i am using that right. :)

[bigpeteb.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, no computer? Don't Macs pride themselves on being able to magnify text cleanly?

Alternately, you could explore the wonderful world of text-to-speech. My deepest sympathies if you do. ^_^

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I started using screen magnification. I am *so* blind, though, that I could only get about 2-3 words on my 12" laptop screen, and that was still blurry. Combine that with the non-stop movement to see other parts of the screen, and I quickly gave myself a headache.

Ouch.

[(Anonymous)]

Wondering how you did that. Hope you feel better.

Here's a geeky idea on how to cope: explore your Mac's universal access features: Zoom, screen reading, spoken commands... might shed some new light on that part of your Mac.

Of course, you'd almost need to do that to read these comments!

{once again LJ's OpenID is broken :-( }

~brian
[ http://briandigital.com/ ]

[rosydawn.livejournal.com]

i hope you feel better! <3

[fountainheadsam.livejournal.com]

oh gosh! i only just read this....i'm so sorry! feel better soon!