so i fell yesterday...

on my knee.

not climibing over boulders or into crazy boats or up ladders or anything else that i've done that might have been potentially hazerdous....i was very careful when i did all of those things, but i was just walking in the street looking around and fell into a hole. of course i should have recognized that parts of the cobblestone road are so bad they are just as hazerdous as a trail in the jungle, but alas. this was probably the first day that i felt good enough to not be watching my feet every step. alas.

i went completely down. i fell on my left knee and though i was wearing pants the skin on my scar is still fragile enough that it broke and started to bleed. (goodbye pants) i pulled myself out of the hole in the street and sat on the sidewalk and was suddenly surrounded by 20 kids. very cute. i wanted to pull out my camera, but i was in a lot of pain. i lifted up my pant leg and got all sorts of ooohs and eeeehs...i wouln't be surprised if they thought the scar was from the fall...i joked with them that this is why you should watch where you are walking....the blood started to drip down my leg and i realized there was no way i was walking home. a few of the kids kindly ran to get a tuk tuk and i took it to the hospital.

i held some kleenex over it and it quickly swelled and i winced as we made our way over every speed bump on the road to the hospital. thankfully the tuk tuk guy took my right up to the hospital door.

suzanne had already left, so i had them call her, i got on the phone and told her i fell and then immediately burst into crazy sobs. she wasn't too far away and came running back. the cut isn't that bad, but of course i was more worried (hence the hysterical sobs) about what i might have done with the fall. i can walk a little better today, but it's still quite painful to bend and walk on and really tender to the touch.

so i guess i'm hanging around here this morning--not bad to sit down by the lake when you're in pain. it will be fine i think, but kind of really frustrating. but really a blessing that i wasn't off somewhere exploring where i couldn't get back.