Back February 18, 2024

POST-FALL: eight hours in emergency care

found a shirt that i could pull over splint this morning.

trouble pulling tight socks off last night.

took the opioid once, so far. CBD preferred.

when i slipped on invisible ice and fell,

sudden crystal clear awareness and gratitude.

it was not my right wrist – am right handed-

it was not my knee

it was not my hip

not my head

just my left wrist!

and though two bones fractured, one of them splintered

after doc straightened wrist

a ct scan showed all the little fragments aligned

exactly where they should be

so may not need surgery.

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”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
Ann Kreilkamp

Ann Kreilkamp

Ph.D. 83

Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).