WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS!

GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS...
I HAVE SO MISSED YOU ALL AND THIS WONDERFUL BLOG EXPERIENCE OF OURS FOR WELL OVER THREE WEEKS NOW, AND IT IS TRULY A HORRIBLE AND LONELY FEELING. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY LENGTHY ABSENCE. YOU MAY NOT HAVE MISSED ME, BUT I SURE MISSED ALL OF YOU. I WAS NOT GOING TO BORE YOU WITH THE DETAILS OF MY ABSENCE, AND YET NOW THAT IT HAS BEEN MUCH LONGER THAN FIRST ANTICIPATED I FEEL THAT AN EXPLANATION IS IN ORDER. I WILL START WITH MY WONDERFUL VISIT TO MY DOCTOR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH. IT WAS SUPERB, AS I HAD GAINED SEVEN POUNDS, A TASK THAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO DESPERATELY, AND AM STILL ON THE PATH OF. THIS LITTLE FACT I MUST ADMIT WAS INDEED A VICTORY FOR ME, AND IT WAS VERY SHORT- LIVED AT THE SAME TIME. MY DEAR DOC. BLESS HIS HEART, FELT THAT I SHOULD HAVE A YEARLY FLU SHOT, NOT THE H1 SWINE FLU SHOT, MIND YOU , JUST THE REGULAR FLU SHOT. SO I DID, AT AROUND TWELVE NOON ON THAT DAY. BY TEN THAT EVENING I WAS VERY ILL. WHILE THEY TELL ME THAT THERE IS NOT ANY CORRELATION BETWEEN THE VACCINE AND THE FLU, I CERTAINLY HAD ALL THE SAME SYMPTOMS OF THE FLU AS I CAN REMEMBER IT. THEREFORE, THAT WONDERFUL SEVEN POUNDS THAT I HAD SO HAPPILY GAINED, WAS MOST ASSUREDLY LOST, IF NOT A LITTLE BIT MORE, IN THE NEXT FOUR DAYS OF BEING SO SICK. WELL, THE GOOD OLD ADAGE OF WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS TRULY FELT RIGHT TO ME, BECAUSE JUST AS I WAS REGAINING MY STRENGTH I HAD AN ACCIDENT. THIS ACCIDENT IS ONE IN WHICH I FEEL VERY FOOLISH AND YET I STILL MUST ACKNOWLEDGE IT. I WAS ALONE AND CLEANING MY WALLS IN MY KITCHEN. I WAS ON AN EIGHT- FT. LADDER AND WENT TO STEP ONTO MY FRIDGE WHEN I SLIPPED. I DO BELIEVE THAT THE DOOR OF THE FREEZER OPENED AND DOWN I WENT. THE FALL LANDED ME ONTO A STEP BETWEEN MY KITCHEN AND LIVING ROOM. IT KNOCKED ME OUT FOR A SPLIT SECOND, AT LEAST I THINK IT DID. WHEN I CAME TO I JUMPED UP TO ASSURE MYSELF THAT I WAS ALRIGHT AND THEN I RAN OUT OF MY HOUSE TO THE NEIGHBORS. AT THE HOSPITAL IT WAS DETERMINED THAT I HAD INDEED FRACTURED MY WRIST, AND MY RIGHT WRIST AT THAT, CRACKED A RIB, OUCH!, HAD A KNOT ON MY HEAD AND SEVERAL BRUISES AND BUMPS. IT HAS BEEN WELL OVER A WEEK NOW AND WHILE MENTALLY I FEEL MUCH BETTER, PERHAPS A LITTLE STUPIDER, PHYSICALLY I AM SLOWLY MENDING. I AM NOW ABLE TO WRITE AND DO MY BLOG, THANK YOU, GOD, AND THE STARS, AND EVERYONE WHO WAS THINKING OF ME. I WILL POST A REGULAR BLOG BEGINNING TOMORROW, AND TODAY I WILL JUST SAY THAT I AM SO VERY GRATEFUL FOR:
#1. BEING ALIVE.
#2. LOVE OF FRIENDS: THANK YOU, STEPHEN T. AND MARK G.
#3. FREEDOM
#4.CHOICES: NO MORE LADDERS, ALONE
#5. FAMILY
#6. RAIN
#7. SURVIVOR, NOT THE T.V. SHOW
#8. ENDURANCE
#9. HEATERS (NOTE*FUTURE BLOG)
#10. GIFTS...CREATIVITY,WRITING,GARDENING,ABILITY TO FORGIVE, CRAFTING, COOKING, LOVE OF ANIMALS, LEARNING TO LOVE MYSELF.