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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