~from the bottom step of the ladder~
I took a little spill at home last evening and was the recipient of the painful reminder that a person really needs to be careful.
I have absolutely no idea what prompted me to decide on the evening of the last day of school before Thanksgiving break to climb a 3 foot ladder and attempt to clean out the supply closet for the bathroom. At 6:30 last night, it just simply sounded like the best idea ever! I've been so thankful to have a home that came with those old fashioned 1950's era hallway cupboards. We have filled ours to the brim and because they are so deep, it's easy for things to be forgotten at the back of them. I was sure if I started before 7 pm that I would easily get the task done by bedtime.
I was wrong.
I admit it.
Somewhere between the brand new pump soaps I got last weekend in Ponca and the first aid kit containing the bandages, antibiotic cream, and ace wraps it happened. My best guess is that I didn't even bother trying to find the last step of the ladder and took the "just hop off of this thing" approach instead. Down I went and with a THUD I landed on the floor. I heard a crash and thought for sure the ladder and most of the things on the bottom shelf had gone with me.
The sound of the crash wasn't the ladder which actually remained standing upright.
It was my hard head slamming into the wall.
My thick skull left an impression, literally, where I landed as was evident by the indented portion of dry wall I smacked into.
Luckily for me, Mike was at home. He came rushing in and found his 64-year old wife sitting pretty dazed in the hallway. I didn't feel all that well and so after seeing how hard I had landed and thoughts of brain bleeding, we made the decision to go to the emergency room to check things out.
3 hours and a cat scan later, we were back home in Newkirk. The dr. said the scan showed that everything was thankfully fine and that I might have a headache for a few days. I must have sat down a bit on the hard side when I landed and that part of me has its own share of aches and pains as well this morning. It wasn't how I wanted to begin my Thanksgiving break but it was what it was.
It seems like every time I'm involved in an accident I find myself being ultra careful for the immediate days that follow. It will probably be a while before I attempt to climb the little three foot ladder again, but sooner or later I will of course get back on it again. I'm a 5-foot tall woman who needs the help of a ladder once in a while, but I have to promise myself to be more careful and to take heed of my surroundings.
The Thanksgiving break has begun in earnest and there will be no school for the remainder of this week. After last night's adventure, I am really glad that I have these days ahead to take it a bit easier. I'm thankful for a few days of rest, and I know that the kids are thankful as well.
The world looks a little different from the bottom step of a ladder.
As an educator who loves to teach life lessons to kids, I learned one of my own last night.
Take time and don't hurry.
What doesn't get done today perhaps didn't even need to be done in the first place.
I have absolutely no idea what prompted me to decide on the evening of the last day of school before Thanksgiving break to climb a 3 foot ladder and attempt to clean out the supply closet for the bathroom. At 6:30 last night, it just simply sounded like the best idea ever! I've been so thankful to have a home that came with those old fashioned 1950's era hallway cupboards. We have filled ours to the brim and because they are so deep, it's easy for things to be forgotten at the back of them. I was sure if I started before 7 pm that I would easily get the task done by bedtime.
I was wrong.
I admit it.
Somewhere between the brand new pump soaps I got last weekend in Ponca and the first aid kit containing the bandages, antibiotic cream, and ace wraps it happened. My best guess is that I didn't even bother trying to find the last step of the ladder and took the "just hop off of this thing" approach instead. Down I went and with a THUD I landed on the floor. I heard a crash and thought for sure the ladder and most of the things on the bottom shelf had gone with me.
The sound of the crash wasn't the ladder which actually remained standing upright.
It was my hard head slamming into the wall.
My thick skull left an impression, literally, where I landed as was evident by the indented portion of dry wall I smacked into.
Luckily for me, Mike was at home. He came rushing in and found his 64-year old wife sitting pretty dazed in the hallway. I didn't feel all that well and so after seeing how hard I had landed and thoughts of brain bleeding, we made the decision to go to the emergency room to check things out.
3 hours and a cat scan later, we were back home in Newkirk. The dr. said the scan showed that everything was thankfully fine and that I might have a headache for a few days. I must have sat down a bit on the hard side when I landed and that part of me has its own share of aches and pains as well this morning. It wasn't how I wanted to begin my Thanksgiving break but it was what it was.
It seems like every time I'm involved in an accident I find myself being ultra careful for the immediate days that follow. It will probably be a while before I attempt to climb the little three foot ladder again, but sooner or later I will of course get back on it again. I'm a 5-foot tall woman who needs the help of a ladder once in a while, but I have to promise myself to be more careful and to take heed of my surroundings.
The Thanksgiving break has begun in earnest and there will be no school for the remainder of this week. After last night's adventure, I am really glad that I have these days ahead to take it a bit easier. I'm thankful for a few days of rest, and I know that the kids are thankful as well.
The world looks a little different from the bottom step of a ladder.
As an educator who loves to teach life lessons to kids, I learned one of my own last night.
Take time and don't hurry.
What doesn't get done today perhaps didn't even need to be done in the first place.
If I had to do something foolish, at least these two were close by to come to my rescue.
~the reminder that my hard head left behind in the wall~
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