Salad Success
Accidents in the Home
My daughter and her best friend with broken wrists from Snowboarding!
They say that most accidents happen in the home, and the most dangerous place is the bathroom. Many of us try to insure against accidents, such as putting mats down in the bath tubs, rubber-lined rugs on the tile, no electric appliances need the bathing area, etc. However, every once in a while, all of our precautions are useless.
Yesterday, I couldn’t think of a thing to write about pain management or arnica. All the testimonials seem to disappear from my brain. So I decided to take a shower and see if my head would see a vision of a story. While in the shower, I cursed my kids for not putting the bath mat on the tub floor, and racked my brain for an idea.
“Hey, Mommy, can you drive me to the pool?” shouted my daughter through the bathroom door. “No problem, let me get dried off”, I answered.
While getting out of the tub, I realized that I had taken most of the towels away for the Monday morning wash. No problem, as I walked dripping wet to the opposite end of the no-slide tiled floor. I reached for the towel on the wall behind the door, and my feet slid out from under me. Wham, I hit my ulna (big lower arm bone) with my full weight. The bump and the excruciating pain started IMMEDIATELY.
Swiftly, while not trying to frighten my daughter with banshee screams, I rushed and got an ice pack. Just before wrapping the lower arm in the pack, I quickly rubbed on some Elixer Arnica Sports Rub TM, and swallowed an ibuprofen pill.
It took well over an hour for the pain to become a low-level throb, but with the fast action, my injury is minimal – it’s now a bump being treated with Elixer.
Next time, I’ve got to find an easier way to get a story for the blog.