This is what happens when your teenage daughter wakes you up at 4:00am to say goodnight and tell you that you fell asleep reading: So, you try to get up quickly & immediately step on your 5 year old son’s story-book that happens to be on the floor right beside the bed, where you often put them after reading bedtime stories. So, you step onto said soft covered book, which immediately slides across the floor sending you flying sideways, falling directly and with all of your weight, into the corner of your bedside table right on the back side of your hip/butt – hitting it so hard that the corner breaks the skin & your screaming/crying/laughing wakes everyone up! It gets worse because, as you try to find purchase with your feet stepping & sliding on book after book, you can’t move forward because there’s only about a foot and a quarter space between the wall and the bed where you’re trapped in your non-stop fall, while simultaneously yelling at your daughter to help you, who, incidentally, is laughing so hard at you that she also can hardly move, so you keep sliding and falling and re-hitting the same place over and over until finally, by grabbing the sheet, bit by bit, you pull yourself up, laughing and crying at the same time, you yank your jammie pants down to check for damages and have your daughter run and grab a bandaid and she, gleefully, puts the bandaid on your ass, and finally, with tears of laughter rolling down your face, you are able to stand, up, and, with great dignity, say goodnight to your beautiful, still giggling, daughter…and limp off to bed.
To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health Topic List.
Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!
PS: I, obviously, haven’t quite figured the fonts out…I don’t know why, when I try to change it, it only changes part of it…if you know what I’m doing wrong, please feel free to let me know…because I’m so frustrated by it!!!!
The Spirit Scribe 