Slippery Slope

Well, I've had an "interesting" weekend.

I decided to go grocery shopping Saturday afternoon (meant to go to the movies Saturday night and have all Sunday to work), and made out my list and trotted off cheerfully.  For some reason I turned down the organic food aisle (presumably Fate drew me there) and suddenly I felt my left leg go and wound up on my butt on the floor.  Some genius had left raspberries all over the floor and I didn't see them (looking at the produce rather than the floor, as I normally do in grocery stores), and slipped and fell. 

Some people helped me (thank you, Man-Whose-Name-I-Didn't-Get and Family-That-Got-The-Manager-For-Me!!) and eventually I was standing again (if shaky) and gave HEB my information.

I managed to get my groceries without crying too much (I was in shock...I HATE being in shock!), and got home to my knee brace and spent the rest of the night on my couch, feeling grumpy that I was missing the movie I wanted see so much.

Sunday I worked my ass off from noon to 12:30 am and was nearly in tears by the time I got to shower and go to bed.  And then I couldn't sleep!!!  But I got up at 6:30 am (half an hour later than I needed to, but oh well) and missed the first bus to campus, but managed to get a seat on the second one.  Made my classes (some of my classmates commiserated over my knee, which I thought was very sweet of them) and then got some lunch at the MSC before going to the doctor's. 

The doctor was very nice indeed, and he THINKS my knee is ok but he scheduled a follow-up with an orthopedic specialist on Thursday, got me a new knee brace, and sent me downstairs for x-rays.  The entire visit cost $109, and I'm hoping I can get HEB to cover at least part of this.  My friends have been telling me to sue, but I don't know if they really think I could get "a jet and a tropical island" or if they're just joking.  I'm perfectly sure I couldn't get anything like that out of a big corporation like that!  But a couple hundred bucks to pay medical care is a mere nothing to them and I hope they'll help a girl out.

Tomorrow I have to call Suddenlink about increasing my data rate, arrange an interview with my dream job (got an email today telling me what to do, hooray!), call HEB again (the woman called me when I was in class but she never picked up the three times I called her back), and send some emails regarding my thesis and classes.  I feel like there's other things I need to do.  Oh well.  I'll get it all done somehow.  (I hope!)