Well it has been quite awhile since I have made a blog entry and I have a pretty good reason for the delay. On July first at ten thirty am I took a mountain curve a little too fast and Sic Fiddy and I ended up in a ditch. Sic Fiddy came out with a broken fender and a broken headlight bracket, I came out with a broken Fibula and a hyper extended shoulder. I was in the hospital for 4 nights and was released around 3 pm on Saturday. The fibula is the small leg bone that goes just below the knee down to the ankle on the outward side of the leg. Here is a picture of the leg skeleton and a picture of my repaired fibula. The x-ray is taken with my toes pointing at the camera.
At the first opportunity I contacted the Old Corundum campground and asked Ginger, another new friend, to look after Cutter while I was in the hospital. Unfortunately Cutter would not allow anyone to enter the trailer and he would not come out. So they left food and water just inside the door and left the door open so that he could come out to relive himself when he felt safe enough. He was scaired and wanted me to be there
Some new friends came all the way to Ashville from Franklin to pick me up on Saturday and had to wait two and one half hours for the people to check me out. But I finally got out of there and we made it home around three. Cutter was as glad to see me as I was to see him.
I am doing pretty well now I can get around with almost no pain and it looks like I am healing nicely. Everyone around the campground has been great. Ginger even washed and folded my dirty laundry last week. If anyone goes into town they are sure to stop by and ask if I need anything. All in all, the unwanted adventure has not been as bad as it could have been. I will not be able to be a vendor at the rock show because I am not capable of lifting the heavy containers. The people have refunded my deposit for the vendor space. I am not sure what I will do with the rocks now. I may store them at the new trailer and try again another year, but what I would like to do is sell the big rough stuff to a wholesale vendor and just keep the small stuff and some of the slabs.
Other than me healing and doing a lot of reading there isn’t much going on. The weather has been nice. There was a Victory battery powered personal scooter in the campground storage shed that someone left and Don (everyone calls him “Corn Bread”) drug it out and fixed it so that I could use it. It is great for walking Cutter and running down into the camp ground.
I have to go back to Asheville on the 21st to see the doctor and see what he has to say about my leg. I am feeling positive and it won’t be long before I am running around as I was before the accident.
AV
