you see there was this golden retriever sleeping in a most unusual location, on the floor by MY side of the bed, and well I got up and maybe wasn’t quite awake, being that it was 5 a.m. Saturday morning, and maybe I wasn’t all that graceful and maybe, just maybe I tripped over said golden retriever, not to mention my own size 12’s, and landed forehead-first on the corner of the circa 1950’s school house chair that serves as my nightstand and there is now a lovely gash (blood, but no stitches) on the left side of my forehead, right at the hairline ASIDE: if I had got bangs when I wanted to a couple of weeks ago, the physical evidence at least would be hidden
I have been feeling ever-so-slightly spinny and weird since then and I had attributed it to wine, fatigue, maybe even the flu, but suddenly it occurrs to me: I HAVE A BLOODY CONCUSSION !!!
and there’s not even a cool story to go along with it, like the time I was knocked out cold by a chairlift
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May 1, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Ouch! Don’t feel bad if you don’t have a great story. I have a friend who got a concussion from tripping on a pop can and hitting her head on the cement because she just… didn’t put out her arms. Needless to say, she lied and told everyone she got it in hockey. Hope you feel better soon!
May 1, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Ha!! Get the bangs now, you have a perfect excuse to!
I once got a concussion falling off the chair when I was a ref at a volleyball game. God. And i actually feel like I told that story recently, either in your comments or on my blog…clearly memory loss was one of the long-term effects of either the concussion or the traumatic colossal embarrassment of the event. Whatevs!!
May 2, 2007 at 4:01 am
Awwww Hon! I go away for a few days and look what happened 😉
I’ve tripped over Miss Ally sleeping by the bed before. And it scared the hell out of both of us!
Feel better soon.
May 2, 2007 at 4:56 pm
OUCH! I hope you feel better soon. Maybe a new pair of shoes would help?
I think you need to come up with the most outrageous story possible and practice it in the mirror until you believe it.
Just to make it interesting though, why not include at least 3 elements from the following? Pasties. Dancing bunnies. Frosted cupcakes. Escalators. Huge tracts of land. Size eight stilettos. Zombie kittens. Vodka.
May 2, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Brandy – thanks for the sympathy, am feeling much better
Tam – ha! and still on the fence re the bangs
Lisa – yeah, so don’t you go away agin, ‘k? who knows what mught happen to me …
Cin – I may just use your ideas yet 🙂
May 3, 2007 at 10:02 am
Awww… you have a “Harry P0tter”! No really, glad you’re okay. 🙂
May 3, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Hoping you feel better soon… had a concussion from a surfing accident once and it sucked. The vicaden didn’t suck but the pain that caused the need for meds did.
May 3, 2007 at 4:52 pm
So noted!