Yesterday I\u00a0 did myself an injury.\u00a0\u00a0 Tripped and went down hard, bled\u00a0 all over a sidewalk, and spent hours in an ER\u00a0 before I was finally sent home with a goodly number of stitches in my face and a bunch of related bruises, scrapes and cuts.\u00a0 My only pair of bifocals was pretty much destroyed so I’m having to type w\/o being able to see the screen clearly.\u00a0 Renewed awareness of how much misery you can feel when not actuallly badly hurt.\u00a0 And how lucky you can be when a bloody mess of a face does not involve any broken bones, lost teeth, damage to eyes, ears, mobility, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Functually, stuff is working.\u00a0 Yeah, I’m stiff, sore, and the worst parts of the face hurt some, but ye gods it could have been worse.\u00a0 It will be ouchy for some days, we hope the stitches stay put for ten days, and\u00a0 so on, but once I was stitched back together, the worst is the effect on those who see it.\u00a0 I look like someone who was punched hard and more than once in the face (due to managing to hit most of my face in one fall.\u00a0 The nose is a particular gruesome vision.<\/p>\n
The only picture I have (the hospital took more, before the stitching, to plan the reconstruction)\u00a0 is on my phone and I don’t know how to get itt from there to, say, a horror to show my friends.\u00a0 Saves them wincing, as long as they don’t come visit.\u00a0\u00a0 As with all things that happen to writers, it’s *material*…at some point, details will show up in something I write.\u00a0 Wonderful husband made me pudding (soft\u00a0 custard) to eat last nigit annd today since I’m not supposed to chew anything firm for some days lest I dislodge a stitch beforetime.\u00a0 Now I’m going to try soft scrambled eggs…without being able to see when they’re done.<\/p>\n
There’s a move in sword & buckler fighting known as “giving him mustachios with the buckler”\u00a0 and I can now say I have a clue what that feels like.\u00a0 A pebbled concrete sidewalk makes a good “buckler.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I\u00a0 did myself an injury.\u00a0\u00a0 Tripped and went down hard, bled\u00a0 all over a sidewalk, and spent hours in an ER\u00a0 before I was finally sent home with a goodly number of stitches in my face and a bunch of related bruises, scrapes and cuts.\u00a0 My only pair of bifocals was pretty much destroyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[82,112],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-dragoncon","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}