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I took a bad fall yesterday. I tripped over my laptop power cord as I was getting up to head for the kitchen to prepare food. I went down hard on both knees with a twist to both feet. It took me about five minutes to manage to get up (and, of course, it happened less than an hour after Scott left for work). My left leg took the brunt of it and is pretty badly bruised. My right ankle and foot are still cranky, but it's fading. There's no visible bruising, but I am getting swelling on my left leg an inch or so below the knee and down.

We got some new Ace bandages earlier this week, and I ended up using both of them at once. We're ordering more because I kind of needed at least one more. I can't wrap my knee or anything above my knee because even things that are meant for knees slide down rapidly; the best I've gotten is to have something stay in place for long enough to go down the basement stairs to deal with laundry but not for coming back upstairs.

Yesterday, I still managed to feed myself and to get dressed, and today is slightly better. If I have unexpected problems, I have someone to call. I'd rather wait until after 5 p.m. to call her, but that's less than two hours away right now, and I'm not expecting to need her (she knows about this; Scott let her know yesterday so I'd have help if I needed it. At that point, I had no idea how things were going to go).

( Cut for discussion of covid )