STUMBLEBUM

Tuesday I went to Walmart to buy some Zicam for the cold I caught plus some groceries. I had a couple of bags in my hand and was walking too fast, didn't see the sidewalk step-off and fell flat on my face. My felt hat helped cushion the blow but my face hit the pavement so that my glasses cut my nose and my sunglasses hit the pavement and popped one of the lens out. Several people came over to help me up and told me my nose was bleeding. I felt like a dummy, got up and got to the car where I looked at my nose in the mirror and there was a slight cut. I used a tissue to clean the little blood and drove back to the house. There Vicky used her football trainer skills to clean up the blood, put a small bandage on my eye, bandaged my knee that wasn't bleeding but was scraped.

This morning in the beautiful weather I walked for 30 minutes up and down the road to the highway. I counted my steps to calculate the distance. Using my military pace of 5 feet every time my right foot hit, I counted 132 so I can calculate the distance. I can walk to the road and back in 5 minutes. I walked again tonight before supper for about 20 minutes. Then being a true stumblebum I tried to help close the recliner Nancy was using and used my left leg that cramped like the Devil. Vicky got me a couple of Alleves and it was all right after a supper of sweet and sour pork that Vicky made. Nancy directed me to make a lemon pudding with fruit salad to put over the cake that Yvonne brought yesterday and was beginning to dry out.

I am sure that a good night's sleep will make everything well. The Zicam is working for removing the cold symptoms. I should be healthy for going home for the weekend so I can teach SS.