THAT'S MY LEFT FOOT. Last night we got home late from our usual pizza and coffee night, around 10pm. The night before it was raining so a wooden plank has kinda floated around the garage coz it was flooded. And we used it to get to the front door from the car. Osha!
Completely forgot about it coz I was kinda high from my coffee. Kids in the house and Joel was unloading stuff from the car. It also rained last night so the garage floor was kinda slippery pa. But that's not even the point. The point is I was tonka! So we were all inside the house na. Alyssa was eating ice cream earlier and I had used Joel's Armscor World Shoot face towel to wipe her face and hands and the towel was blue. So I begged our help, Letty, to please wash it right away. by now Alyssa was playing on the floor with her new toy cars. I wanted to do my share of the "end of the day" chores and I saw the 2 padlocks still on the table pa so I got them and went outside to lock the gates. Two steps out of the front door I stepped on the wooden plank which was between the car and the wall. My left foot slipped, I fell to the left and heard my joints go trrrrrrrooooooookk! TWISTED SISTA!!! Doomed talaga! I fell on the wet dirty garage floor and came face to face with the front wheel of the car. All I could do was grab my foot to make it steady and scream at the top of my lungs in super duper pain! it was more like an animal scream! daw pig cut open! Happened in seconds. I started crying and still screaming out of fear, pain and just plain disgust of what had happened. I could just picture the next few days. Anti inflammatory meds, cold compress, cant take care of the kids, limping limping and limping. next thing that came to my mind was I have got to get better soon coz Alyssa's performing during their Intramurals opening ceremony this Wednesday. What luck! Joel, Alyssa and Letty scrambled noisily to see what happened. I didnt wanna get up yet so Joel stayed down with me. HUHUHUHU i had my J.Lo jeans and J.Lo blouse on pa naman!!!
I felt Alyssa pat me on my back and heard her say, " It's gonna be alright mommy, you'll see." Earlier pa, even before she reached the door, i heard her shout na, "What happened? What happened to mommy? Mommy are you alright?" And here's more of what I heard her say: "Are you hurt bad?" "Can you try to stand up?" "You want me to take care of you mommy?" "Please stop crying mommy, it's gonna be alright, I promise Ill take care of you." OMG!!! What beautiful heart my 3-year-old has. And when we were inside already she held my face and said," Whatever you do, dont move too much now, ok?"
And so the story goes...I slept with my foot elevated 3 pillows, with cold compress, with medicines and thank goodness the swelling has gone down a bit and Joel fed Ava at 2am and 4.30am and changed the ice on my foot.