Rats--I've slept after work almost all week. Knowing that I was to get one of my spine injections Thursday, I was not allowed to take drugs for the previous 5 days--and I started getting a killer ear-ache on Monday. By Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday, I was feeling rather chilly/sweaty, so I finally got some Bactrum on Wednesday eve.
(Shhhhh. That's a secret!) I didn't tell the nurse at the hospital that info when I went ahead with the shot on Thursday afternoon! But I feel great today--it only hurts a little when I bend!
However, I did get up at 4:00am Wed and Thurs, when the Briglet goes to work--so I could go to work too and then leave a little earlier. Hmmmm--in my state of sleepiness and the heat and that new shot, should I pick cherries or not?
I got a 1/2 bucket standing on the metal rung ladder wearing wet flipflops when I felt like it wasn't the wisest choice in the world to be sliding around like that. Plus the pair of sweat shorts I put in had lost their elastic and pulling them up with 1 hand just wasn't working.
I put on good decent shoes with traction and some long jean shorts to be safe. HA! No sooner had I climbed back up when I felt the ladder start to slide over sideways--like very slow motion. I calculated that I could get one foot on the top of the chain-link fence pole if I were lucky, and I was. I don't know how I managed to get BOTH feet on the top of the fence, but I did, still holding the bucket and a small branch like Tarzan. or a monkey.
Unfortunately, when my feet came down on the fence, they quickly slid on the green raspberry leaves that are covering the metal and I ended up with my butt on the bar (and pulling the poor tree over sideways)--whew! The neighbor guy has his garden of tomatoes and potatoes right in front of me...please don't fall forward and ruin his plants. Whew. So I sat there and looked around like a bird, burst out laughing and prayed no one had seen my graceful fall. But I saved the cherries--and my back. I think.
