TheBanyanTree: My Bunker Hill Day~

[Monique Colver]

Ouch! I'm so sorry!

Monique Colver

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:57 AM, <smack58 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> On Thursday afternoon I left work looking forward to a long weekend with
> Bunker Hill Day closing the campus on Friday.  Had all sorts of plans.  I
> was really looking forward to it.  I decided to go next door to the East
> Side Cafe to get one of their delicious pizzas so I gated my dogs on the
> deck and headed over.  But instead of taking the front way with the even
> SIDEWALK, I took the back way around the park where the neighbors driveway
> meets my fence.  Bad decision, folks.  I stubbed my toe (majorly) and it
> threw me forward.  Trying not to fall on my bad knew, I took 5 big strides
> and when I could no longer hold myself up, I hit the road.....face first.
>  Thank God a young man saw me go down and pulled over his car or I could
> have gotten run over.  Blood was spewing everywhere and after he called 911
> he went into the Cafe to get help.  It looked as though someone had slit my
> throat there was so much blood.  The restaurant people brought me towels and
> ice and helped me into a sitting position.  The fire truck came and then the
> ambulance.  I could not get up on my own but those beautiful (handsome)
> firemen helped me up in a jiffy.  WOW!  They treated this chubby lady like a
> featherweight...they were strong, smart and all I could think of was how
> good looking they were and how beautiful their teeth were.  Funny what goes
> through your head when your in shock.
>
> Anyway, the kind ambulance people walked me home and my poor pups who
> howled like little wolves they were so worried, greeted me like crazy.  NO,
> I didn't go to the hospital.  After my last stay, I tend to avoid it, but
> Dolores and Ann from the East Side came over armed with butterflies
> disinfectant, Bacitracin, gauze, gloves and band-aids and fixed me up so
> good that when I saw my doctor he didn't touch it...he said they did a
> pretty good job of it.
>
> So slowly the swelling has gone down (I couldn't see out of my right eye
> for a couple of days) and the black & blue has spread to my right eye so I
> look like a raccoon.  My nose has been released from the bandages and though
> still puffy the scabs have come off (showers are great for that kind of
> stuff).
>
> I have decided to tell folks that ask, that I have had cosmetic surgery!!!
>  LOL!
>



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