I’m Fine, Thanks

June 13, 2011 
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I am extremely accident prone.  This is something that Nathan, as a very careful, rarely injured person, cannot understand.  It isn’t that I am careless or trying to hurt myself, things just happen to me.  Here is an example of a recent conversation.

I come into the house after getting my legs caught in plastic electric fencing twine.

Nathan “So, how did it go moving the horse?”

Me “Oh, it took a few minutes but it went fine and he’s happy now.”

Nathan “Mhm…(turns around and looks at me for the first time) OH MY GOSH WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LEGS!!!”

Me “Oh, it’s no big deal I just got rope burn from getting twine yanked across the back of them.”

Nathan “YOUR LEGS ARE BLEEDING!  YOU COULD HAVE CUT YOUR LEGS OFF!! WHAT WERE YOU DOING!  WHY            WEREN”T YOU WEARING PANTS?!”

Me “Wow hun, it really isn’t that bad, and I was wearing shorts because it’s hot and I didn’t know that I was going to have twine wrapped around my legs.”

One week later…

Nathan “Um, your legs that were ‘fine’ look infected and they are still oozing and you have a huge black bruise too.”

Me “Yeah, I’ve been thinking about putting some antibiotic ointment on them, they are kind of sore…the bruise is from something else anyway.”

Nathan “From what?”

Me “Oh, I don’t know, it just popped up.”

Nathan “Hun, bruises don’t just ‘pop up’ you have to do something.”

Me “Well I don’t know and I’m fine anyway!  Gees!”

Nathan “Mhm, you’re fine, I’ve heard that before…”

In my defense, I’ve never broken a bone, or not a big one anyway, well I did have that stress fracture once, but I was fine, really…