CRASH

Just call me CRASH or Grace, whichever you prefer..?!? Today I set out of the house for my daily 2 mile walk...everything appeared to be in order.... work out clothes, socks, pony tail holder, tenny shoes, I-pod, *check* I strode down the street past the park, around the corner and headed north toward the elementary school. All was well. I had picked up the pace and had my groove on...jamming to I cant even remember what on the pod. I was distracted, well...actually I was rubber neck'in trying to get a look inside this house I was passing by. { I'm a snoop & everyone knows it! } When the toe of my left shoe hooked on the uneven sidewalk. {I think I'll call my attorney} The rest is a bit fuzzy in my memory, but I'll do my best. {sigh} The next thing I knew I was literally horizontal to the ground approximately 3 feet in the air...doing a perfect swan dive towards the ground. I landed on my palms {thankfully I got my hands up in time or I probably would have rubbed all the skin off of my chin!} skidded for a time and landed very hard on my right knee. I groaned, moaned & cursed... looked around for witnesses and got up as quickly as I could. I realized when I got up that I had crashed right in front of the elementary school cafeteria, full of children having lunch....nice. I was desperate to leave the scene and I did not access the bodily damage until I had turned the corner unto another street. My knee & palms were scrapped up pretty bad...no external blood loss. Whew. However, I must have ruptured a varicose vein & I was bleeding internally. Holy shit...the pain!!! I cut my walk short and gimped home as quickly as I could. My wound needed ice. The pictures really do not do the scrape/bruising/hemorrhage justice...it was impressive & painful. Waaa.

Moral of the story....exercise is bad. Don't do it.