As I mentioned in this post I started a new job in April.
After 9 weeks of training and 2 months with my new team, it is finally
Vacation Time!
Long awaited and much deserved.
All last week I was getting daily texts from LB that included a countdown to vacation. We’ve been looking forward to our trip to Treasure Island near St. Petersburg, FL. We had planned to leave on Sunday and spend a few days on the beach, relaxing in the sun. 
Like this.
But first, yard-work.
On Saturday, my first official day of vacation, we spent time in the yard working: trimming hedges, weeding, etc. I was outside for about 6 hours trying to clean up the yard and destroy my fingernails.
LB was still working in the front yard when I decided that I’d had enough and announced that I was going to get in the pool. LB said he would wrap up what he was doing and join me shortly.
There was something invigorating
about that short swim.
I started thinking that LB would be coming to get in the pool and knowing him he would decide that instead he should be cleaning the pool. Since I had a received a burst of energy, I decided to get out and grab the pool brush. I walked all around the pool and swept the sides. Then I stepped up on the hot tub and started working on that. When I was finished, I gracefully stepped down. As I watched my foot hit the pool deck, I realized that it wasn’t hitting flat, but turning inward, like when you “roll” an ankle. Call me crazy if you want, but I think I heard something pop. I thought I was going to pass out and throw up all at the same time. Fortunately I was able to get to my phone and text “help” to LB. After the initial sickening feeling I had experienced, there wasn’t much pain unless I tried to walk. As I sat watching TV with LB and Elvis on Saturday night, I honestly thought it was not a break, and would be better by morning.
Well it wasn’t better by morning and we made a trip to the Baptist ER in Oakleaf. 
Dr. Lim explained that it was a metatarsal fracture.
Yep I broke my foot.
This was a first for me. I had never broken a bone in all my 57 years until Saturday, August 5th.
On Sunday morning the staff at Baptist Oakleaf fixed me up and sent me home in just over an hour.
I won’t be going to Treasure Island today.
And I’ll NEVER try to clean the pool again.
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Thank you for taking time out of your day to stop by my blog.
If I am off work, I feel like I am in vacation mode. However, this one would be special because I wouldn’t be returning to work for 10 days.
