Imagine If You Can…
One’s life can change in a second
‘Oh no! I’m going to be late!’ I thought as I sped around my apartment getting dressed for work, after sleeping through the alarm clock.
Once ready, I began rushing down the shag-carpeted stairs when suddenly one heel of my high-heels caught on the landlord’s carpeting and came completely off my foot… my hand reached for the banister but slipped, throwing me into the air and landing me at the bottom of the stairs.
I lay at the bottom of the steps for about 45 minutes, yelling for help from my landlord. I couldn’t get up. And my left knee was hurting badly. The landlord chose to ignore my screams for help. Eventually, I got up but couldn’t stand on my left foot. I was certain I had broken that knee since I couldn’t put any pressure on it. So I hobbled to work although I was more than an hour late and knew my boss would be upset.
When I got to work, limping on one foot, I told the boss what had just happened and that I thought I may have broken my knee. He says, “You can still type, can’t you?” And proceeds to walk away. He returned with an empty cardboard box; putting it underneath my left knee and telling me to “Keep the knee elevated in case it is broken.”
I thought he had compassion and would tell me to go to the ER to see if it was broken! No such luck. So I did a…
