Yesterday I was returning a water hose to Bobby and Emma’s
(Bobby is Carol Ann’s cousin in Durham) backyard when I “mis-stepped” and sort
of rolled my left ankle so that the sole of my left shoe would have been
looking at its mate on the right had there been eyes on the bottom of my
shoe. I could hear bone and tendons
cracking and popping as I experienced the kind of pain that will bring tears to
a grown man’s eyes and force his knees to the ground.
I knelt on the lawn, rocking back and forth for about a minute until the
pain eased off enough for me to stand up and try to walk. Bobby noticed me limping and drove me down
his driveway to our motorhome parked on the street. I laid on the couch with my left foot
elevated while Carol Ann put an ice pack on it, after which she gave me a Mobic
(prescription anti-inflammatory/analgesic agent), two Tylenol Extra Strengths,
and a Vicodin (prescription hydrocodone and acetaminophen). The pain was gone within 30 minutes and I was
well on my way to LA-LA Land. The rest
of the day is a little hazy.
This morning my ankle, though still quite swollen, was
relatively pain-free and I was able to walk without too much of a limp. We went out for a BBQ lunch and were on the
road to Petersburg about 2:00 PM. We are
on the south side of Petersburg in a Walmart parking lot. It rained very hard for a good portion of the
drive and after we parked. It
is not quite 7:00 PM, the rain has stopped, and the temperature is a very
pleasant 63 degrees.
Tomorrow morning we plan to visit the Petersburg National
Military Park. The Park is close to the
old Confederate defensive lines and scene of some of the fiercest fighting
during the Siege of Petersburg from June 1864 to March 1865. Petersburg protected the southern approach to
Richmond, capital of the Confederacy.
Prepare to read about the War of Northern Aggression over
the next couple of weeks as Carol Ann and I tour some of the Virginia
battlefields of the “late war” (as sometimes referred to by the genteel
southerner).
2 comments :
The advantages of having two pharmacists in the home! I used to turn my ankle way too often when I was young. Now I am super-careful and it hasn't happened in decades. I still remember the pain though!
One of our favorite parts of our trip through the "South" in 2010 was the back roads of South Carolina, reading the signs on the old plantations telling of the "Northern Aggressors" . It is a lovely area, I would love to be following you!
Come on down! It would be fun.
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