old lady with collapse ? cause

im currently procrastinating doing my gen med essay. sigh. hate being back to the daily grind.

so anyways i was severely jetlagged ytd. slept pretty much the whole day and woke for a few hours to eat before going back to sleep again. the next time i have a holiday, im gonna have at least 2 days off to recover from jetlag and to just blob. the past 2 wks have been uber busy!

so this morning i was running late as always. decided to wear a new pair of shoes. and it just so happened dat it was raining. bloody weather. and i dunno how it happened but as i was walking to the car, i started to slip, lose my balance and then i thot i got my balance back but i didnt then i ended up crashing onto the concrete tiles on my driveway. landed on my right knee and fell on my left palm. damn painful! and cos it was raining and wet, my pants had this wet patch over my knee where i had landed. so i had to go back into the house and change my pants. and i was already running late. it was not a good morning. then on the way to work, i realised dat my knee was starting to bruise up pretty quickly. crap. but had to forget abt it in the meantime since i was already late!

so during work, we had a massive ward round cos nobody knew the patients, it was a completely new team. we had a relief reg cos the regular reg had gone off on her europe honeymoon. the hs had the previous 2 weeks off. and i had 2 wks off on holiday. the 4th yr was now on holiday. and we had a changeover of consultants. so NOBODY knew the patients. so ward round was extra long. and then having to weightbear on my newly injured knee was not good. by lunchtime, i realised dat my knee had swollen up, and there was definitely some form of haematoma. i was getting paranoid there mite be a blood collection into my joint or dat i had done some serious permanent damage. so decided to book an appt to see the doc in the aftn.

luckily the doc said the joint was fine but i definitely had some contusion outside of the joint. then she asked me if i had iced it. which obviously i had not since i was already running late. so there goes my basic first aid. i didnt RICE. rest ice compression elevation. instead i walked, no ice, did not compress, and weightbeared on it. so dats WNIDNCWB. seriously i think im not fit to be a doc. and also, im getting old. who the heck in my age slips and falls while walking to the car?!?! only an old lady would. i feel like one of those old ladies dat comes into the hospital with collapse ? cause.

and to make things worse, i was holding my phone in my left hand when i fell. so the phone suffered some casualties too. it now had an ugly scratch at the bottom corner. sigh. i dunno which one im more sad abt, the phone or my swollen knee. sigh. next time will try not to be an old lady.