I slipped off a stair and folded my foot in half at the instep Toe to heel. Nothing is broken, just the strangest sprain the NP ever saw. I have to sit. I am suposed to stay off it for a week to ten days. I can't drive, cook carry in wood, shovel the walk, fetch, carry, or stand any longer than it takes to go to the bathroom. I have a chair, I have wip's. My ankle hurts a lot and I HAVE to sit and so I can knit as long as I like. Should I be grateful?

I am so sorry you are in pain. Yes, I think you should be grateful, it isn't broken at least.
I hope the pain decreases each and every minute that goes by. IN THE MEANTIME, try to enjoy UNINTERRUPTED knitting. You should not have to get up, except for your own personal needs. So have a cup of tea/coffee etc., some favorite music, and knit your heart out. That will heal you faster than anything else, doing something you love to do, knitting.
Get well fast, or maybe slow depending on how many more knitting projects you would like to get done, without doing all those chores in this cold weather. Keep knitting and you'll feel better in no time.

Noreen

OH Dances,

I am so sorry to hear about your foot YIKES! It sounds horrible. Please take care and rest and knit and rest and knit! It could be worse! Gosh! I wish I could drop by and help with the shoveling, wood and all those little things you just can not reach or do!

Dances, you have my sympathy! Based on some of your previous postings, I conclude you will have some worries while being laid up - wish I could be there and do some of the simple things that seem nearly undoable when you cannot move as usual. (Daughter broke leg in early Dec. - I speak from secondhand experience!) Do you have someone to call on for assistance where needed? Try to enjoy the surprise knitting time - it is not easy to do when even a trip to check the stash turns into a major project. My thoughts are with you!

Strikker

Feel better, Dances.

Enjoy the extra knitting time.

Shari

Upsides:The cat is overjoyed, mom's lap is available.
DH's electric wheelchair is at my service when he is not in it. I have a little freedom.
Knitting progress is being made.
I can ask for and get a cup of tea delivered to me in a chair. Decadence in a nutshell.
the computer tower is set so that I can keep my foot up while working or entertaining myself on the net.
kind people that I know across the net have sympathized with my enforced rest.
Downsides: DH is a horrible cook. he is so bad at it that I will cook with a vomiting migraine instead of risking what would happen if he did.
In cooking from the wheelchair I upended and dumped his food on the floor instead of the plate.
I misjudged the doorway and bounced my foot off the wall while tooling about the kitchen in the chair, to the sound of much profainty.
I find that my ultra independent nature is appalled at being served with anything and is beating my self up even though I know that this is needed to heal. I am going to demote that part of my brain. independence is good, stupid stubbornness is not.

thank you for the commiseration it makes the time a bit more comfortable.

OW!OW!OW! No, you don't need to be grateful. For every great loss there is some small gain, thus uninterrupted knitting time. Follow all the rules and recover as quickly as possible. We are all thinking good healing thoughts for you

I have MS and know what enforced sitting status is. My sympathy and best wishes go to you. At least DH is a great cook, but he's done it so much now he won't eat mine. He lets me sit and knit to my hearts content, but tells others I waste a lot of time ding "nothing". So I don't knit for him anymore, just the G-kids, customers and me.

Dances,
Many, many get well soon wishes coming your way! Wow, that sounded painful!
Sorry that DH isn't good cook. That would help a lot, but not everyone can be a cook. My hubby is, but it took some coaxing on my part to make him comfortable in the kitchen. Now he would rather cook then let me do it.
But now you have lots of time to do the things you want to do, and it's guilt-free! So knit and surf to your hearts content.

Should you be grateful? It does sound like that sprain is excruciating, just thinking about bending your foot in half like that makes me wince for you. I hope you are much feeling stonger and better every day.

As far as the uninterruped knitting time, it sounds like heaven to me. Try to imagine how you would feel if you were stuck without yarn/needles, etc. -- yikes!, that's what would really drive me up the wall!!!

Dances,
How awful...be grateful it isn't worse. Get well fast!

"every day in every way, I get better and better"-Emil Coue
The kitchen is a wreck. there was an unfortunite incident involving a 27 pound turkey, an oven, and a too small pan instigated DH who is one of the cooking impaired. Please note that neither one of us likes turkey.
The laundry has not been run for a week, I am down to ratty undies, the bra that was an escapee from a downmarket nursing home and socks that could stand up and sing the ride of the valkiries in two part harmony.
DS#1 called to see if he should go into the emergency room with severe stomach cramps(he lives about 80 miles away)
The cat ate way too much turkey and left a present in the door of the bathroom.
I have been upgraded to lurch status. I can lurch to the bathroom instead of scooting on my heiny up the stairs.
I lurched to work too.
If you want to know what I am doing about the untended domestic emergencys, I am plugging my mp3 player in, and sitting in my chair with my foot propped on a basket of unsorted laundry and knitting.
I can't do anything effective for any of this, and it will be there when I can get to it, or DH will deal with it in his own inimitable way. I'm not looking, Lalalalalalalalala......

I'm grinning from ear to ear at the latest news from Ft. Collins...get better soon!

Dances,
Good for you-exactly the right attitude.

Before you know it, you'll be upgraded further to hobbling status, then you might feel the urge to do something domestic. Fight that urge! Rebel! Don't do it!
But seriously, hoping you do feel better soon.