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Last Sunday I needed to take something back that I could not use that I had purchased at a store, then wanted to stop at Joann's Fabrics to pick up some quilting batting as I had a baby quilt I wanted to get started with the quilting later in the afternoon. As usual, I was in a hurry. I had successfully returned what I needed to return, but that was the end of my errands.
The above picture is the drivers doors of my car. Nothing looks amiss here at all. Now, the photo below, shows the drivers door open.
Do you happen to notice where the door handle is and the top of the door?? See how it sticks out farther than the door? Well, when you are in a hurry and trying to get things done so you can accomplish what you need to do.....dumb things happen.
That part of the door at the top, that sticks out over the door handle met my head. Yes, I opened the door and slammed my own self in the head. A goose egg popped up, I saw stars and knew my errand running was over. I debated on how I was even going to drive home.
Well, now my eye is every color of the rainbow. In all my 51 years, I have never had a black eye. Ever. And to think, I did this to myself, and rather successfully. It has been a week and it is still the same. Sorta gives me an idea of permanent eye makeup, only thing lacking is the other eye and I'd be set.
Oh, and did I mention, I have hit myself in the head before, just like this, just not as hard to cause all this damage. Some days, I think I should stay in a padded room. I am my own worse enemy!
Lesson here....car doors are weapons of personal destruction!
Oh, I am very good at doing dumb things, too! One time I was helping my late husband put up dry wall ceilings in the basement. We'd never done anything like that before and just had 2 x 4's rigged to hold the big pieces up. He said I could let go---next thing I knew one of those boards hit me in the head. You know I let go of the wrong one, right? We were like a comedy team, but not really. Ha! Hope you will be fading back to real skin colors soon. Stay out of harms way, too.♥♫
ReplyDeleteOh, I know that hurts! I'm the same way and always hurting myself too. One time I broke my own finger by slamming it in the door. It's a running joke at church how things like that always happen to me! LOL I hope it heals soon!
ReplyDeleteOuch,that looks so sore. I hope you got an exray ust to be sure. x
ReplyDeleteOuch, sorry this happen to you. Hope you have had no problems with your eye and sight. Heal quickly.
ReplyDeleteYou poor dear, some days are just like that. You could make up some really good stories but come to think of it, this is a really good one.
ReplyDeleteOh poor Suzanne! I bet you did see stars. I am glad you got home safely. I am the same kind of person. Last year when I was staying with my dad, I opened the cupboard over the washing machine, bent my head in the washing machine, and raised my head into the cupboard door, gashing my crown. In a basement, without a cell phone, with a deaf man upstairs and blood flowing in the washer. Lived through it and did the same thing three weeks later. . . Sometimes I think I need a keeper!!!!
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!!!! I have to be so careful myself, but it's always of course the one moment you are rushing. Hope it heals up really soon and just becomes a memory.
ReplyDeleteOMG that is a doozy. When my daughter was 2 she got up in the middle of the night and walked into my room. She tripped over Daddy's shoes and hit her head on the bottom of the night table. I put her back to bed. In the morning, oh my goodness, what a goose egg on her forehead. The hit almost broke the skin. It turned every colour of the rainbow too. There is a permanent indentation on her forehead still (14yrs old now). We called her 'rainbow head' for years. good luck with your healing
ReplyDeleteYou need to buy yourself some arnica cream to help the bruising disappear quicker, just in case you do it again.
ReplyDeleteooooh! Hope it settles down soon... we all do these things! I calmly watched my self shut my thumb in a door AND cut the end of my finger off with a rotary cutter! .. I try not to repeat the samt thing twice though!! x
ReplyDeleteI did the exact same thing (I have the same color car too). Must be a Colorado thing! laura@imnotatrophywife.com
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness. Hope the swelling and colors of the rainbow disappear soon. fondly ~lynne~
ReplyDeleteThere is not enough space to share the dumb things I do. I have learned to keep them to myself. It certainly does not look good and I am sure it hurts worse.
ReplyDeleteOuch! Hope the color fades quickly!
ReplyDeleteOh goodness -- poor you! Just tell them "you should have seen the other guy!" LOL!
ReplyDeleteOh MY! Hope it heals up quickly. Take care!
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