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  1. You know....sometimes in life you are the bug and other times you are the windshield. I honestly feel like the bug right now. We had a nice Christmas in spite of some aches and pains though. First of all, Christmas Eve morning I started coming down with a rather nasty cold. Sore throat, head all stopped up so I felt like I was in a drum when I talked, etc. Nothing too terrible but certainly not feeling 100%. Then by later Christmas Eve, my body decided that it was due for a flareup of my Gout. Now those of you who truly have Gout know exactly what it does to you. I usually get it a couple of times a year in my left toes and ankle but this time, it hit full strength in both feet...toes, ankles, etc. It darn near crippled me to the point that I could barely get out of bed and get down the stairs on Christmas morning but I finally managed to make it. Took some pain pills and within a couple of hours, I was pretty much functional again but with the gout and the cold I just wasn't feeling my best. The day progressed nicely enough. Watched my son open his gifts, had a nice fire going in the fireplace, coffee for Eileen and I and hot chocolate for Dylan. Just a very nice quite family time. Later in the day my brother in law came over and also Tony who is my wife's nephew accompanied by his finance and her two children. Had a very nice time and then later a fantastic Christmas dinner. After dinner we all pitched in and cleaned up a bit. The refrigerator was so full that I decided to take the ham into the garage and put it on top of the freezer over night as it was plenty cold in the garage to store it there. Well, over the past few months I have progressively approached total blindness in my right eye. I'm slowly adjusting to it but am just not there yet. I guess it was a combination of being a bit crippled from the Gout and my depth perception still being off from the loss of site in my eye but when I stepped out of the kitchen into the garage, I completely missed the top step. There is a three stop drop from the kitchen to the concrete garage floor and there I was in a free fall of about 3 ft. while holding a nice large Pyrex platter with a ham in it in my hands. As I fell, I managed to twist around so that the Pyrex platter would not hit the concrete floor and was successful. I managed to hold onto the platter and keep it from hitting the floor and shattering and thus saved the dish and the ham. The only problem is that in doing so, I successfully twisted both of my already hurting ankles and also found that using your left knee, left elbow and HEAD to cushion a 3 ft. fall off a set of steps is not necessarily the best course of action. So....I am now laying here on the couch after managing to slowly ease down the stairs this morning. I am nursing two sprained ankles, a twisted left knee, a sprained left elbow, rash on my left knee and left elbow, a knot on my head and I STILL have this danged cold. Otherwise, life is good. I hope that you all have a fun but SAFE New Years day. I think I'm going to just wrap myself in bubble wrap and hole up here until spring.
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