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There are pink elephants dancing in my head.  Because when there are not, I start to think about how fast I'm going down the gentle slope.  Cute turquoise elephants doing jumping jacks.  I don't feel so stable going this fast.  Lime green elephants doing the Mambo.  And what is my friend talking about?  I should pay attention to what she is --- No I shouldn't!  Look forward!  Concentrate on feet!  Ecru elephants belly dancing.  I think my feet are wobbling. Am I going too fast to consider braking? I think I'm going too fast.  Lavender elephants making O's with their arms.  I hate this!!!  Why oh why was I foolish enough to agree to it again? 

Only with the aid of the elephants do I make it the whole 6.2 miles unscathed.

There are moments in life when I am grateful that I have truly wonderful friends.  Today was one of them.

With T out of town, our friends are being really lovely.  Inviting me to lunch.  Courtney is coming to visit later in the week.  And today I went rollerblading with raaga123.  Which turned to to be way more exciting that such exercise is supposed to be. Going down a hill and around a curve, I took a tumble.  Somehow it managed to involve both elbows (no pads), one knee (no pads), my right butt cheek (duh), my tail bone, and my head (no helmet).  I left a really amazing pool of blood on the pavement.  Head wounds bleed a lot, don't you know?

raaga123 took me to the emergency room (don't tell T this part until after he returns, I managed to very carefully leave the words "emergency room" out of my email to him).  The scrapes, including the head wound, hurt like such scrapes always do.  Yes, feel free to wince in sympathy.  No, the really painful part was my tailbone.  Getting up, getting into and out of  raaga123's car, climbing onto the examination table to be examined by a doctor were possibly among the most painful experiences of my entire life.   The x-ray technician was amazingly nice.  But perhaps that was because I went from following her very slowly  but conversationally down hallways to crying and shaking from the pain of simply climbing onto the x-ray bed.  Turns out, they can take perfectly good x-rays even if you are shaking uncontrollably. 

According to the experts, I do not have anything broken and do not have a concussion.  Yay, I'm not injuring myself worse by moving!

I'm home (raaga123 would not let me drive), and drugged up.  I'm taking the max dosage at the shortest end of the time span.  The words, "Tomorrow will be worse" hang over my head like a...  Well, you get the idea.  If today is this bad, I plan on spending tomorrow as drugged up as I possibly can.  If I can spend the next 48 hours asleep, I will. 

I have several friends planning on calling me to check in.  My friend and neighbor, Bruce is going to call and I'll ask him to help me put the futon down (sitting is harder than being horizontal.  At least, I hope it is.).  In the meantime, I'm rotating ice packs.