Creative Writing Challenge - Task #6 - What if...
What if you had just spent the better part of three days putting in an herb and flower garden right outside the kitchen window?
What if you were reading a book and saw something out of the corner of your eye walking through your new garden. Delicately moving from one tender morsel to the next?
What if you realized it was a deer looking you square in the eyes without the least bit of fear, continuing to fill her belly on your freshly planted greens?
What if you wanted to startle her, so you open the door, clap your hands and jump around causing a commotion. As if it is some cruel trick for yelling at the deer, you twist your knee falling to the ground.
What if it is so painful that you drag yourself back inside crying for help to no one there?
What if you make an appointment with an orthopedic doctor that tells you the only solution to make your knee well again is to operate and make a new tendon?
What if the only option is having surgery on New Years Eve weekend? So you do. But the anesthesiologist ties the tourniquet too tight leaving it on your leg for an extended length of time.
What if you are sent home that Friday afternoon with your partner and have no way to get from the car to the house because you are too doped up. You call a friend to help and they carry you to the bed.
What if the next day your leg turns the color of an eggplant and you are feverish, realizing something is terribly wrong and it happens to be New Years Eve.
What if you get to the emergency room and the doctor tells you that you have a blood clot that is traveling toward your lungs. They rush you to the the ICU and tell you most people with a blood clot this size don't live. What if you don't?
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Ai yi yi! What if, indeed.
Oh Nooo! 🐓🐓
Food for thought thank you... Have a wonderful day, following you!
You too and thanks for stopping by🐓
You're welcome!!!
Thanks for reading my entry, and for stopping by. 🐓🐓
You're welcome. Thanks for posting it. I enjoyed reading it. Why did you decide to get into treasure hunting?
When I was a child we moved to Australia, my dad was in the oil/gas industry. Every weekend we would take a road trip around Victoria, there were so many beautiful places-still wild and unexplored. We started hunting agates and common opal. It was such great fun! I got a metal detector several years ago. The desire has never left me to want to find treasures in the dirt!
Cool makes sense. Where are you from originally?
Texas here in the US. I now live in Florida, but my heart belongs to Texas🐓
Why did you move to Florida then LOL?
Good question. Elderly parents live here.
Well, that escalated quickly. Well done, fits the challenge perfectly! :)
Thank you for reading my entry. 🐓🐓
Oh my goodness, that got soooo dark! (Not that that's a bad thing muahaha)
You know I didn't realize how dark it is until you mentioned it! Glad you caught that. 🐓🐓
Really got me thinking, one little thing can change so much in ones life...
It can change in a instant. This really happened in 2010 and I spent 10 days in the hospital and many months on warfarin. Physical therapy for months. Tore the ACL in my knee chasing the damn deer off, had surgery New Year's Eve and 3 days later was in the hospital from the tourniquet being left on my thigh too long during surgery. Just bizarre!
Girly! Omg this sounds so painful, I'm sorry to hear you went through such an ordeal. You're one strong lady! Did anyone get in trouble for the tourniquet negligience?
It was a scary situation. We sought legal counsel, but they all stated "you'd have to go in the courtroom missing a leg in a wheelchair to win." There were piles of medical records and photos. So after consulting 4 different lawyers including my brother in law, we moved on.
Makes me so mad!
I'm glad you've recovered but still, this is negligence😔
It was quite the ordeal. I was disappointed the anesthesiologist got away with it. She knew what she did, never have surgery on New Year's Eve!😉
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