Jinxy

So I totally jinxed myself last week when I talked about how good I was feeling on here. On the weekend I was walking along at the mall normally and snap! Broken ankle and foot. I had a good run, it's been two years since my last fracture, but it's small consolation really. I was really worried I was going to lose my job over it...I have to drive to Stoney Creek and Ancaster to teach...but tadah! Mike is my hero: I put him on my insurance yesterday, and he picked up my car today: he's going to drive me to and from my various music studios and then go to and from his, which is very out of the way, in Dundas. I think he's the best person in the world.
I go to the fracture clinic this Thursday for my cast; it's splinted at the moment. And I'm in a wheelchair again indefinitely.
I'm really noticing how NOT wheelchair accessible my supposedly wheelchair accessible unit I live in is. I can't reach the cupboards at all, barely reach the sinks, the stove burners are slanted and dump hot pots in my lap, and I can't get back in the house when I go out..although there is a wheelchair ramp, there is a two inch ledge in the doorway which makes it impossible for me to get back in once I'm out...I was trapped out there this morning until Mike came back from the library for me. (yes, he does errands too! Do his merits never end?? Don't even get me goin'!:D)
This is my 19th ankle fracture and I think in overall fractures I'm in the 50's now. It really burns my ass that this probably could have been avoided if the government would have agreed to my request back in January to have the treatment of Aclasta, which is supposed to significantly reduce fractures in people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). It's $750 dollars for one treatment for 15 minutes through an IV once a year. I can't afford it, being a single mom primarily on disability. *sigh*
So here we go again.
I had a mild pity party this morning when I was having a really hard time cleaning up...read: impossible. I had a little cry and feel ashamed now because I know how much worse off many people are and I have no right to feel sorry for myself really.
In other better news, Matt Good is touring again this fall for his new CD and will be in Hamilton in December. No groupie-ing for me this time with the bum leg/wheelchair unfortunately, but I will see him in Hamilton at least even if I have to crawl there. :)
Multiple fracturally,
D.