Basketball a worthy endeavor
Being short bothers never
Reaching for the highest goals
Defying what you’ve been told
Up as if being lifted
Proves you are gifted
With hard work and much practice
You find you are not lacking
In what it takes!
Quadrille #215: Ready for Liftoff
I’m home finally – that month in hospital and rehab was unpleasant to say the least – apparently the rehab was the best in town and that’s not saying much. The pain in my right leg caused me to shift my leg a lot at night in hospital and apparently this caused a bruise on the bottom of my heel. So now I am confined to the wheelchair or recliner or a bed because I’m not supposed to stand on my two legs until the heel heals. So no one saw this condition, and it just deteriorated.
I am almost able to get to my right foot to wash it and put on lotion. My right leg has permanent hardware in it now and a lot of screws holding it in place on one side of my thigh. There’s a large incision there where they put all the hardware inside and around my knee and up the thigh on the right side. Thank heavens my left leg that I broke in March has healed up enough so that I can rely on it when standing. I have Wound Care and OT and PT coming to my home.
I am getting around by myself fine, but I’ve had no desire to write and it’s obvious when you read the sixth sentence story that I am off my game. I hope to recover that because it’s my favorite activity and especially I want to say thank you to all of you who stuck with me and sent good wishes. I really appreciate them. One of the medicines I am on makes my vision very poor, so I’m not reading as much as I used to.
I have to look on the bright side. At least I only have two legs so I can’t break another one. My whole life I haven’t broken anything significant, and after living that way, breaking two legs in one year is ridiculous.
Thanks to all, Cheryl.
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.
PROMPT WORD: POOL
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Sam was a diver and very well known
Off cliffs or a pond he felt at home
He never should have taken the bet
To dive in that backyard pool
For that wager he was a fool
Water shallow—his demise was shown.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
Waiting for and getting another INR 🙄🙃 is a pain in the volar pad😳
One-Liner Wednesday & #JusJoJan25 the 8th – Stop following me!
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20 December 2024
Can You Tell A Story In…
My silly attempt to write a weird story as fast as I could-shake it up. My excuse? Pain killers😂
Wordle 685
“Don’t touch my leg!” is my one liner and definitely no joke. Transferring from wheelchair to car on our way to an echocardiogram to test why my limbs were so weak and other symptoms, my brain temporarily forgot why I was going to the doc and tried to put my weight on a weak limb, my right leg. It collapsed and bent. Hearing a horrid crunch as my femur broke, and I’m lying on cement.
I spent a week in hospital and today is my third day in a rehab facility, there’s no merry Christmas for me. If you ever took a slab of wood and broke it over your knee you see the edges separated and hear the crunch😱I’ll never forget it😫 Yeah, like that…
🎄Have a wonderful holiday!🎄
One-Liner Wednesday – Such a great idea!
autumn
colorful displays
windswept leaves dancing in circles
tangolike
moving with stealth only revealed
when tree limbs join the rhythm
tense waltz
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I chose the form Cameo, 7 lines unrhymed with a syllable count of 2/5/8/3/8/7/2 and love of the earth card.
TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Oracle Card Poetry – Finding Your Joy: 12/16/24
The Bag Lady 
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