Ow Ouch Scream -(&*($%()#$%)

[christabelll]

Remodeling can be very rewarding when your house is stripped to the boards anyway... but... today.... mere minutes ago... The door bit me on the ass....


We had just finished carrying a rolled up carpet to the basement...

"Hey hon? While we're down here, will you help me carry the doorframe upstairs?"

"Sure sweetie, but dont put it in front of my only counter...I am cooking lunch."

Grunt grumble step climb curse put the damn thing down.

Go to fridge get asian sauce for chicken and veggies

Pick up pot with water step to counter

The freaking doorframe!!!

It teetered

It rocked

It hit my left hand, a glancing blow, asian sauce tumbles into sink CRASH

It hit my right hand, raking the pot with water out of it....Sploosh clatter

CURSING

It kept going to the right, bang off the ovens, jerks back

Down my left hip Grunt

Over my left ankle and achilles tendon MOTHER FUCKER!

Door frame hits the floor with left toes under it

Both hands are under my armpits as I hop one footed framed by aluminum and steel splashing in puddles of tepid water on concrete board

"You okay darling?"

"Fuck no"

"Any thing broken?"

"I don't fucking know. It fucking hurts goddamnit."

"Here, let me see" fingers leap to access the damage making me writh further...

"Oh honey, I'm sorry. That looks painful."

"No Shit. Uh, sweetheart?" sarcasm and pain dont really mix, "What the hell was the door frame doing in front of the counter?"

"Well I didnt expect you to go right to it?"

"Did I not just tell you that I was going to?"

"Well yeah but I thought...."

"Unhunh...How bad is my ankle? I can't hardly put weight on it..." tears are stinging but not falling I'm too pissed....


"You got it good honey, right here." poke squeeze

"Ow god damnit stop that!"

"I don't think its broken"

If my hands hadn't have been tucked protectively into my armpits I would have hit him... "What about my arm?"

"Oh thats a big bruise..."

"Uh, ya think?"

I wiggled my toes experimentally... okay.... cautiously apply weight... okay

I pull my right hand free and look at it five long scrapes and one huge bruise across the back... throbbing... stinging

I pull my left out.... forefinger scraped from nuckle to joint... with one enormous bruise (for a finger!) swelling as I watch... son of a bitch....

Hobble around nursing and cursing

"I'm really sorry darling. But I think you damaged the ovens..."

Whirling on good right foot stare at him with daggers in my eyes... I reach out with a wet thumb and wipe the paint from the oven doors. "Now that the fucking ovens are okay how about helping me finish making lunch?"

"I gotta do a report first" exit stage left......

Flip him off as he leaves the room and gradually pull lunch together... He can get his own damn dish.

Where is the freaking tylenol and advil when you want them? And where are the dozen or so Ice packs I know I own? Oh thats right... they are still in the garage along with 90% of my personal belongings....

Rassle fratzen murglemuffin bloughderdampin hogwaaaaaasher sopret.....

 

[rgraham666]

Sending healing vibes your way.

 

[Guest]

My mouth is still hanging open in a most unattractive way.

Oh, hon. I'm so sorry.

Sit somewhere safe (hubby can clean off a couch?) prop your feet, snug a blanket and try to take a nap. On second thought, can't he find some icepacks and Tylenol?

 

[TxRad]

Apparel for home remodeling:

Catchers mask, Hockey Mask for the northern folks

Catchers chest protector

Shin guards

High top steel toed boots.

Welders gloves

Other clothing is optional

 

[christabelll]

let me describe my kitchen slash dining room

an 11 by 20 room
one arch way
three windows
door to : Basement, Laundry room, outside
1 refrigerator 3 feet from any wall
1 double oven free standing two feet from any wall
1 6x3 two by four stand with plywood top
with: double sink, 1 coffee pot, one tea kettle, one hotplate
and coffee tea honey salt pepper sugar chicken veggies and pasta on said counter
1 freestanding cabinet with microwave and toaster and various dishes/silverware underneath
2 50 gallon construction trash cans
3 50 gallon trashbags full
a dozen broken down boxes
1 shop vac
various tools scattered where left
3 small boxes over flowing with items for the basement
2 ladders
1 broom
1 dead norfolk pine
5 gallons of paint
paint brushes rollers and two tarps
7 milk crates filled with dry goods
5 30 gallon bins filled wiht more dry goods and various implements
3 cats (watching the show!)
3 kitty boxes
3 feeding stations
2 water stations
and 2 adults and a doorframe!
2 high stools freshly painted in cobalt blue


I swear it was like the door frame was trying to be a freaking hula hoop down my body... more bruises have appeared (mainly down the left side).... time for the arnica gel... oh goddamnit! its in the garage too...and its three more weeks until my cabinets are ready!

I found the tylenol and advil two each (sometimes works better than pharmacy grade) and two bags of frozen corn.... one for the ankle and one for the left hand...

He isnt really an ass.... just this instant( well okay other times too LOLOL)... and shock combined with pain turn me into a sailer faster than climbing on the boat!

Five more minutes and its cocktail time for both of us. hehehe but he gets to paint the rest of the new front door ha ha ha...My my hands hurt too much

 

[Emerald_Dragon]

I have been there, done that. My sympathies.

 

[ms.read]

hope your feeling better. Thats worse that getting beaten up by a baseball bat carrying robber!

 

[christabelll]

Good Morning..... well the night was spent with him making up for it has left me wonderfully sore in other places LOLOL....'

I did forget to mention said new door to match the door frame is also in the kitchen.... utter chaos I tell you.... utter chaos

The bruises are rather techinicolor today and the ankle and left hand hurt the worst of them all.... but all in all it could have been a lot worse. I am sincerely glad it wasn't. I really did not want to spend yet another 15 hours in the ER... where they threatened to admit if I showed up again. (Mastoiditis and cluster migraines)... I have been avoiding being admitted like the plague... I would rather be home and in agony that in the hospital any day....

Anyway... today the new door frame and door get installed... and I will reinherit my field kitchen. I will post pics of my before and afters if you all wanna see.... If I do say so myself it will be gorgeous with my copper, pewter and silver collection, the custom and hand made cabinets installed and all the appliances including my 5 burner cook top installed.

There was no arnica gel in my field kit... and its a two hour drive to the nearest place that carries it. Hmmm... God damnit I wish I could drive for more than 15 minutes without my head exploding!

Thanks all.... have a fab weekend.