Week Three of the Great Foot Fix

Last night I went to the company Christmas party. Normally one stands around at these things, glass in hand, mingling, but I'm scooter-bound and that made me a roadblock in a narrow room, so I chose to sit, with my leg elevated on the seat of the scooter. Which also made me a roadblock in a narrow room. People are just not meant to be shaped like a T-square.

Back home, I took a painkiller and got on the computer. I hadn't realized before last night how goofy those things make me. A friend shared with me a YouTube clip of a blooper that featured Kevin Stanfield and me (see it here if it interests you, but be aware that it's about three minutes in and you may have to pass by some stuff that's mildly objectionable first  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=604D5GvnnT4) and it struck me as so funny that I decided to share it with a few family members. What I did instead, was message it to a whole bunch of people. I am not even sure how I did it. I immediately got a message back from a friend who said she thought my Facebook page had been hacked.  I think I'm ready to graduate to Tylenol, if only to save my friends from  the fuzzy texts.

But that brings me to my point. You simply don't realize how challenging life is for people who are mobility impaired until it happens to you. Here is a list of things I never knew:

1. If I CAN drop a thing on the floor, I will.
2. If, after I drop it, it CAN roll under furniture, into tiny corners or behind the toilet, it will.
3. Putting your pants on while standing on just one leg is not possible. Scooting into them while seated on the bed is undignified.
4. Vehicles on wheels roll, and sometimes role out from under you.
5. If I set my phone down and roll away from it, it will ALWAYS ring. Three rings are not enough time to get to it. And if I'm in a hurry to answer it before it goes to voicemail, the phone will not recognize my thumbprint, nor will I remember my unlocking code.
6. I am not much of a dancer, but I've developed a beautiful one-legged pirouette.
7. And perhaps the most surprising of all, I find I am not good at sitting still and reading a book for more than, say, ten minutes. So those days when I dream of a vacation where I do nothing but sit on a beach with a novel? Probably not the vacation for me.

I've also learned that I have wonderful friends and family who are always there to step up and help, and to make me smile and feel loved. That is perhaps the most valuable lesson of all.