Day: May 9, 2022

Everything that happens to a person can and probably will be judged by them. It’s up to all of us to make the call, is it a good thing, or a bad thing? We decide.

At the moment, I’m healing from the effects of a fall. I’d name that fall as a bad thing, for sure, but it wasn’t my worst ever. i’m still feeling pain as a result of the fall, several days later, but it’s getting better.

And it has given me ideas I may be able to use in my writing, and in fact have been using, in my blogs, and on social media. I’m wondering whether this experience may be used to ‘beef up’ my cosy murder mystery that I began some time ago, adding real life experiences to make it seem more real …

And this quiet time, well, it’s not the worst thing in the world, that’s for sure. Rest and rehabilitation leads to thinking about life, what is important, what isn’t, and what will be the best things to get done, once I’m getting back into a more active life.

And at least this sprained thumb isn’t as difficult to deal with the broken ankle I had at my previous serious fall. I haven’t even had this thumb bandaged up, although that may have been a good idea. It wasn’t spoken of when I was at hospital on the day it happened, but I’ve been thinking it might have been a good thing.

But resting quietly at home for the most part is fine, something I enjoy, looking outside at the sky, and he trees and smaller plants outside, very pleasant! So I honestly can say the results of this fall, while painful, aren’t all bad …

This is the link to my fundraising page here

The biggest part of my fundraising will happen at the event where I will be launching my new Poetry collection “Leonard Cohen Is Dead”, which I hope will be a well accepted new book, because I feel this may be my best book yet!

And even though I may be slowed down at the moment, I’ve still been able to think about what I need to do when I get out and about again. Slower times, can give more opportunity for considered thought, and that’s always a good thing!

And I mean big in my life in a few different ways, one good, one not so good others possibly good.

The good one, is the most exciting one. That is about having my new poetry collection launched at the end of May! I sent a draft copy of my collection to the person who is going to launch the collection for me, and he wrote:
“Congratulations on your book. Very powerful read.”

That is a good start to a book being popular, I hope. This person, Martin Johnson, is well known in Gawler, as poet, musician, and all round fine community member, and I’m thrilled he accepted my invitation The not so good to launch this poetry collection for me. He also is going to put one of the poems in the column he has in the Bunyip which the local weekly newspaper.

The not so good thing, was probably a bad thing, but there are points to it. I’ll explain. The day before yesterday, I took our dog, Lenny, for a walk. But when we were getting closer to the turn around point, but not quite there, I heard thunder, and a very light rain started. So Lenny and I went home, without reaching my required distance for the day.

So I let Lenny in, then went out the back, to walk the length of our back veranda, up and down, undercover, and out of the rain, which got a bit heavier. I got the steps up, then decided to head back inside. But no, that didn’t happen, instead I fell over, onto my knees, and left hand, and hitting my left temple quite hard on the concrete ground. I must have landed hard on my left thumb, because it was so painful, I was worried I may have broken bones in there, Ouch!

So while extra steps are good for a person, that’s only if the walking isn’t interrupted with falling … This latest fall included an ambulance ride to the Gawler Hospital again and then lots of hanging round …

There was pain too, with a sprained thumb, of all things! A small sprain, but painful, and limiting in terms of being able to do some things. It’s getting better now though, slowly. My face, from where I hit the concrete is looking worse, but that injury is nowhere near as painful as the thumb injury is.

And while I haven’t been doing any more exercise I expect that will happen again soon, by next week anyway. And I have a lot of work to get done for my fundraising activities this month, raising money for the MS Society SA & NT, ‘Wear Red For A Reason’.

I’ve put my box of items for the fundraising that will begin in person tomorrow, and I will order copies of my book for purchase at the book launch later today, so I should get them by next week, in plenty of time for the launch!

I’m happy for some quieter times for a while, but I’ll be able to show off my new book to the members of my writing group tomorrow, as long as I remember to put my new copy of it in the car before I head off to Gawler for the meeting!