What a bad month

BaliLover

BaliLover

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Ever had one of those months when it seems like everything is going wrong? This is one of those months for me. First it seemed like work at my shop had dried up, the phone wasn't ringing, people weren't stopping in, and it even seemed like traffic on the hwy in front of the shop had disappeared. Then my fiancee decided that she wasn't happy and decided she was leaving me and moving back in with her parents. So now I'm stuck paying all the bills on my own. Okay, can't get much worse can it? Monday it seemed like the shop was making a turn around, it seemed like there was a flash flood of work pouring in the door and I was starting to see the end to my financial worries. Then things got bad again as if to tease me. Yesterday on my way to work a truck pulls out in front of my motorcycle (my only mode of transportation). I manage to slow it down and avoid most of the truck but I still clipped the side of his bumper and went across the front and ripped his license plate off. Now I've got a foot and ankle thats swollen like a balloon (fortunately nothing showed on the xrays) and I'm stuck on crutches and out of work for a few days. I'm still trying to deal with his insurance company but I keep leaving messages and getting no reply. I had Geico motorcycle insurance but I learned today that even though it says your paying for personal injury protection in the policy, that doesn't apply to motorcycle riders in the state of Florida. So, all they're willing to deal with is the damage to the bike should the guy that hit me's insurance not pay out. So now I might be dealing with medical bills on top of no transportation.

Hopefully things start to turn around for me, because there isn't too much worse I can imagine having to deal with.
 
BaliLover said:
Hopefully things start to turn around for me, because there isn't too much worse I can imagine having to deal with.
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Well, you could have my problems. For example, a few years ago I found myself homeless shortly after moving from NY to VA when my wife at the time proceeded to max out the credit, empty the bank accounts, and take off with some other guy . . . immediately thereafter the property owner sold the house I was living at, I needed to put my dog down, and my Da -- who I could always rely upon in an emergency -- ate his gun. I was completely broke, living out of my car, and I didn't know anyone down here.

That was a bad month for me. During the following several months I quit drinking 5 times. Things eventually got better.

I can empathize with your pain, brother . . . just remember that things can always get worse, and be thankful for the few things you still have as well as the things which could've gone worse but didn't. A busted foot sucks, but is preferable to a spinal injury. Hope things improve soon.
 
I am sorry that you are having a rough time right now. I will keep you in my prayers. I would suggest that you get an attorney to help you deal with the guy that hit you, otherwise, you are going to get screwed.
 
I'll be praying for you. Not quite as drastic, but coming out of open-heart surgery, having to memorize the Crispin's day speech and then taking some grueling exams can be pretty grueling. You get my empathy.
Hope your foot gets better, your shop gets business, and you get a new girlfriend.
 
Just a quick update. After nearly 2 weeks the swelling has gone down but the pain was still there, I couldn't put pressure on it. Went to the doctor today only to be told that I have a fracture in my heel. How does he know this I wondered, since I'd never met the man before and he didn't take any new Xrays.... BECAUSE THE HOSPITAL (radiologist) SAW IT IN THE XRAYS THE DAY AFTER I WAS RELEASED and noted it in my chart, but FAILED to call me and let me know to come back in or even that it was broken. So for 2 weeks I've been treating it like a really bad sprain instead of like a fracture.... I've been hobbling around the house with a cane to do chores and even went to work for a day on a cane to try to keep income coming in. Fortunately new Xrays show that nothing shifted, but damn, a phone call would have been nice so I could have had this checked out sooner. I go to see a pediatrist tomorrow and I'm just hoping they don't put me in a cast.
 
BaliLover said:
Went to the doctor today only to be told that I have a fracture in my heel.
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A heel fracture can be the most painful foot injury. While mine was never broken they drilled it out to fit in a screw that they used to fuse my ankle and heel bone together. The hole still hurts 3 years later.

Take it easy. Rest and elevate! And take it easy and slow. I got back on my foot too early and in the 3 years since the fusion have broken the talus (ankle bone), my distal tibia and my foot in 4 places. All due to stressing the foot too early.
 
I am REALLY sorry to hear about your broken heel! I wish you a speedy recovery.
 
I am having such a month right now. As with all things though, even horrendously crappy months, this too shall pass.

I'll hoist a scotch in your honor, and maybe you can do the same; next month maybe things will be much better. This month's over half done already, we're over the hump.
 
I hope things turn up for the better. I am trying to go alone and start my own business. I am so tired of trudging about for a mediocre pay and all the travel. But having been broke and a refugee life can really be a bumber so I am still very gratefull for what I have.
 
About four years ago I split up with my gf when she found someone else. I was lucky enough to have the money to go travelling to take my mind off it.

Made a big mistake getting in touch with her while I was in Australia (having a great time being seduced by Swiss and German girls!) and finding out the fng had gone back to his wife :jerkit: so, feeling sorry for the milf I came back home and set up house again.

Two weeks after getting back with her I had a few beers one night, went to bed. And then sleptwalk - I was thinking I was going to the toilet for a piss but I actually went to the rear first floor bedroom, opened the window and climbed out onto the conservatory roof. (I think my subconscious was screaming gtfo :confused:).

I then tried to lower myself (naked) from the roof onto the pathway by the side of the house but forgot about the concrete drain beneath me and let go, smashing my right heel to shit.

Spent the next ten months recuperating, couldn't walk, blew a ton of money on bills with no income, surfed ebay buying tons of prep gear (so not all bad :)). Meanwhile she found some other man but we both pretended it wasn't happening and the relationship staggered on.

Now I have one foot visibly larger than the other - the soft-tissue injury was a bitch, the fracture to the calcanium is invisible on x-rays apparently, constant low-level discomfort and unable to run far but can still bicycle thank god.

Lessons? Don't rely on women, be strong for yourself, and don't get lazy on the physio exercises!

Good luck to you, things will get better :thumbup:
 
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