[audio-pals] Re: Wow! Always Excitement...
- From: Heather Lynn <hoppercopper2004@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:02:19 -0400
Hi Joshie Washie, I hope you're feeling better soon. I sure know what it's
like to get the cane stubbed up and getting hurt. I am a terrible cane user.
That's why in 1993 I took the plunge and went for my first guide dog. Boy was
it hard to trust my life to a furry four legged critter.....no not a
squirrel!!! I have a folding cane that I've had since I was 11. It has the
two strands of elastic in between the pieces and folds into four pieces. My
loop hasn't broken yet but I don't use it much. I have a turning marshmallow
tip on the end which helps to keep it from getting jammed in cracks.
Unfortunately, nothing is totally safe. I will pray that the meds work and
that you have no serious injuries. The campus police refusing to escort you is
a bunch of b.s. How ridiculous.
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> On Mar 25, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As the subject line says there is always excitement in this household. I went
> to school just like any other day this morning. No problems through my first
> class. Then I get to my second class location and was heading inside when bam
> out of nowhere I step in a hole or my cane went in a hole and I fell to the
> ground. In the process of falling to the ground my cane broke in half. I got
> up and thought well I am fine, so I go ahead and head inside. As I stood
> around waiting on my next class the pain and throbbing of the joints and
> muscles started to set in. I called Amanda to have her bring me my cane
> because she is only interning on Tuesdays and Thursdays, only open position
> for internship, so she was available to bring me my back up cane. While
> waiting on Amanda to arrive, where I wait is right beside my Professor’s
> office, my Professor came into her office and I told her I may be late to
> class due to the fall and my cane breaking. She of course asked if I was ok
> and at the time I was stoved up, but not in a pain that was unbearable. So,
> she went on in her office and the pain continues to intensify so I ask her if
> she has a chair. She gets me a chair. She says she is going to notify her
> department head and the disability office regarding the incident. I tell her
> ok, thankyou. So, Amanda arrives, I get my new cane and head downstairs to
> class. By the time I am having trouble navigating the stairs due to the pain
> shooting through my leg. However, I make it to the bottom and my class is
> straight across from the stairs. My Professor arrives and comes up to me
> telling me she received an email back from both the disability office as well
> as her department head who both recommended that I go to the student health
> center. I am glad that I did. However, before I gt ahead of myself. I
> inquired as to whether the campus police can escort me over there so I can
> avoid taking the steps again back up. She said they should be able to do
> this. Well, I go to the office and wait. One of the ladies in the office
> informs me after getting off the phone with the campus police that the police
> cannot escort me over to the student health center due to liability. So, I
> begin to ask her if she can help me get back to the doors by elevator because
> the only way I have oriented is the steps on this level so I had no clue.
> About this time the department head walks out of her office and inquires
> about the campus police situation. She is overtly disgusted over this
> situation and says she will be making some phone calls to question this when
> she got back to her office . In the meantime though she offered to take me
> over to the student health clinic and we arrived without problems. So, I am
> seen and the doctor orders 3 different X-Rays. He wanted an X-Ray of my
> writs, my knee, and my ankle and shin. This was a bit painful for sure and
> the X-Ray tech kept apologizing. So, the outcome of the X-Rays shows no
> recent breaks at this time the doctor says, but once he has the radiologist
> look at it he will send me an email. He said I am definitely stoved up and
> have some sprains i.e. the wrist and the ankle. He has put my ankle in a boot
> and he would have liked to put me on crutches, but he said he has never had
> to put someone who is visually impaired on crutches and wondered how that was
> done. I have never been on crutches since going blind so I had no idea. So we
> decided to forego the crutches and just went with the ace bandage and boot to
> secure my ankle in place. He prescribed some muscle relaxers that he said I
> probably only want to take at night because of the fact it will make me
> sleepy. He also prescribed Aleve for the inflammation and suggest to get the
> back to unlock that Amanda massage the blood back into my back because he
> believes that it has just locked up. He said if I continue to have any
> problems to come back and he will put my wrist in a splint. Right now I am
> scheduled to go to their sports management office to see if they recommend
> anything else here in a couple of weeks. He said that if everything has
> returned to normal then I can cancel the appointment. So, now Amanda is
> having to make her third trip to the campus today and this time it is to take
> me home with her. This boot is really annoying, but had I had to have
> crutches I would have probably just talked to my classes about having online
> courses for the rest of the semester *LOL*. I hate the cane snapped and was
> surprised that the disability office did not have one to loan out for
> emergency use.
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