Defeated by a bowl of salad...

[fajrdrako]

So frustrating.

A few hours ago I was trying to get something in the kitchen - always a challenge - and my crutch fell over and hit a bowl of salad on the counter, which landed on the floor and broke. I was able to pick up some of the bigger pieces of bowl (because I could reach them) but I can't do anything about the salad. I can't even think of any good ideas. A vacuum cleaner won't work on it even if I could move the vacuum. I can't pick it up with hands or tongs or paper towel because I can't reach it. I can't use mop or broom or dustpan because I can't use two hands. I can't think of anything to do except wait till someone with more limbs or dexterity than I currently have comes by, and then beg them to do it.

Meanwhile the salad sits on the floor, looking depressing.

I shouldn't let it get to me but I hate this helplessness.

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which was to sit down and clean/pick up things, then shriek for the ten minutes it took me to get upright again. Do not do that, because it was stupid and risky.

All together now: OUUUUCH!!!

My ribs are okay, but if I lean over too much with the crutches, I risk landing on the floor with a broken nose. If I sit on the floor, I can't get up again, having only one foot that can take any weight. I want to learn to fly, or levitate, or even just float. Is that too much to ask?

Distract from the lettuce.

I know - another episode of Buffy. Or a Torchwood fic! Yes, just the thing.

I vow, you will be fit again and this stage of helplessness will just be a fading, deeply effing annoying memory. Pinky swear.

Thank you so much for saying that.