Back home.
Trying to be still.
That is a challenge.
No pain, your prayers helped.
Have you ever broken a bone?
An old photo of Chelsea and Sacha:
Home Sweet Home
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48 responses to “Home Sweet Home”
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Hello
Comme allez vous ?
est-ce tes enfants ?
magnifiques
biz
mo
PS : as tu des news de Marcy ??? -
Never broke a bone-knock on wood!I feel soooo bad that you broke your wrist. Not being able to do your usual thing must be torture. More prayers on the way…
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I broke my nose, so I couldn’t put any weight on it for months. Ha. Just kidding.
But, it is a weird story. I was young, intrepid reporter living in St. Petersburg, Florida and we were having a party at the apartment of the man who would one day be my husband, but I didn’t know it then. Out front, two other reporters were playing frisbee while I stood on the porch. Suddenly, Dave called my name. I turned toward him and whack! the Frisbee smacked me on the bridge of my nose and it broke.
The doctors first straightened it with a pair of plier like things, but the bones came together like tent poles and made a big sticking up point in my nose. Then they did surgery and I have a perfectly straight nose now.
I hope this glimpse into my exciting life gave you some relief from your restlessness. Heal quickly! -
No broken bones, but a ton of stitches.
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Nothing major, but years ago fell and broke my tailbone. Not a glamorous injury, but painful. Plus, hard to say, ” I broke my butt” in polite company!
Glad you ‘re home and sending speedy recovery thoughts your way. -
I was riding a tandem bike with a friend in nursing school one fine fall day. A German Shepard puppy and his mom came after the bike.. The pup ran directly into the side of the bike and took us down. Helen tore the knees out of her new white jeans and I ended up with a shattered radial head. Had surgery, allergic react to the meds and paper tape, fainted in the airport on my was home to recuperate, and to this day, have a crooked elbow that pops and grinds.
May your healing be speedy and uneventful. Be kind to yourself and let others help. -
Never a broken bone. Wished for at least a twisted ankle so I could have crutches. Also loved signing friends casts and always wanted one myself! Now? No thanks! Happy to be whole!
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I’ve broken a bone twice. On the first day of summer, playing dodge ball, a small broken bone in my foot which wasn’t found for a week. Then once in the middle of the night, trying to locate a juice cup for my crying child in the kitchen with no glasses on, I stubbed my toe and I knew it was broken. But there isn’t much you can do about a broken toe.
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Several years ago I had just dished up ice cream for my family and grabbed mine, ran around the corner of the sofa to plop down and watch a good movie with everyone….when I jammed my toe into the corner of the coffee table. It hurt like ____!!! The doctor “buddy-taped” it to the next toe. Still the pain! The following day my manager at the hospital called to say that there was an inspection for accreditation and because I was the Chemistry supervisor I had to come in.
I had to wear slippers! I received lots of sympathy from the inspectors. The worst part was driving 30 miles into the hospital!
I am so sorry for you, Corey. Take care, put your feet up, eat bon-bons and let everyone wait on you as much as possible. Hugs and prayers! -
I am so sorry to hear about this accident. I fell down our steps the morning I was leaving on my first trip ever to France. I broke my middle toe. Wrapped it in a 3M product that vets use to wrap the limbs of animals. It worked amazingly well. There was nothing that could stop me from exploring the streets of Paris!
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P.S. I forgot to add….I love the photo of Chelsea and Sasha….so very precious!
Thank you for still blogging, Corey!!! -
have had a broken wrist….take
good care and I hope your pain is
minimal.I can say that I got some
milage out of that cast!!
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I’m so happy that you’re home…that’s the best medicine! I’ve never broken a bone! But my kids have more than made up for that…each has broken an arm or a leg…one has broken two bones and had pins in his leg! Ouch!
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So glad you’re home, but that probably makes it that much harder to be still. I’ve never had a broken bone and for this I am thankful!
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C, glad you’re home. I thought about you during Mass Sunday, during the priest’s homily (subject: reconciliation) he made an analogy to a broken bone. He said that after the bone heals, the healed area is actually stonger than before (I didn’t know that!) Watch out wallpaper!!!
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No broken bones, but my children have. SO sorry. I am glad to hear there is no pain. Take good care, Corey,
Diane -
Yes, I emailed you about my experiences. That is an adorable photo of the kids.
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Glad to know you’re out of the hospital, Corey, as those places are veritable germ factories (including some antibiotic-resistant nosocomial infections that are truly dangerous).
Are you able to hold a book in one hand in order to read yet? In case you can, I have a few favorite recommendations that you already own — LOL! Or you may finally break down your resolve and ask Yann to buy you a TV.
Has Yann brought you some of that luscious chestnut yogurt yet, to supplement your calcium and Vitamin D intake? How about some of those superb French cheeses? Hard to believe things so delicious are also health foods!
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No, I have not had any thing break on my body and hope I can escape that pain.
I hope your wrist heals quickly and that you are back to normal. Bad ankle and now bad wrist. Time to take it a little slower.
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I broke a small bone in my foot about a year ago, but nothing like what you are having to go through. Oh dear, I do hope it heals quickly and you are back to your energetic self. How nice to have Chelsea and Yann there to take care of you.
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So glad you’re finally home but it seems you made the best of your hospital stay – you will find a story anywhere!
I have never broken a bone, and hopefully never will. I can’t imagine how painful it must have been but as one of the first things you wrote was that the pain was gone, that tells me a lot.
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Yes…I broke my right wrist putting a campaign sign in my front yard and fell backwards! And the guy lost!…but won two years later and now has raised my taxes! So much for a “bad sign” and omen!!
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It was the middle of summer right after I graduated from high school and I was gearing up for college. My best friend and I went to a party to whoop it up before classes started the following week. I drank way too much and pushed some guy in a friendly sort of way. He did not think it was friendly and he pushed me back but with a lot of force. I was standing on a jacuzzi deck at the time and I fell backward off the deck and naturally I put my hand out to catch my fall. I heard my wrist break but was too drunk to care. I got up and jumped into the jacuzzi fully dressed because that is what one does when drunk with a broken wrist! Within a few minutes I noticed my arm was swelling to an abnormal size and the pain was becoming unbearable. My best friend was also drunk and had no idea what to do with me. She knew she needed to take me to the hospital but she couldn’t just take me in to the ER. You see we both worked at the hospital and she knew it was going to cause big problems if she brought me in and we were both intoxicated and under the age of 21 by about 3 years. Oh did I mention my Mom worked at the hospital too. Yep, that is the icing on the cake as they would say. So plan “B” was to sober me up by putting me in the bathtub with cold water. I really don’t remember much of the story after this point. My next memory is having the x-ray in the ER by a co-worker and I asked him if my wrist was broken. He looked at me and said, “have you looked at your arm?” The following week I started college with a cast and my first class was tennis! No kidding. I got an A in that class. Blessings, Kimberly
P.S. I don’t remember what my Mom did after she found out about the accident. I think I will ask her today. I also didn’t have any problems at work after the incident. I think they all had grace on me and my friend. At least that is what I like to think. Oh to be 18. -
I’m afraid to say this, but I’ve never broken a bone and I hope I never do. I really feel for you, though. I hope you adjust quickly and figure out all kinds of innovative ways to do everything with one hand.
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Corey, so glad you are home and pain free. Goodness, what gorgeous babies!
I broke an ankle when I slipped on the ice going to work on campus. No surgery necessary, though. Just a simple green twig fracture. Two months later I found out I was pregnant with our youngest son, Andy. I used to tease my husband that this happened because I was at a disadvantage and couldn’t get away! Anyway, don’t be surprised when the wrist is puny compared to the other once the cast comes off. Perhaps the exercise squeeze ball will help.
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Hi D
Thank God for that! I still have the top part to do along the wall. New ladder to buy as well.
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corey- thinking of you and still offering intentions with each thought for a COMPLETE and SPEEDY recovery…peace be with you!!
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Welcome home, where I hope your view is even better than from your hospital room and where your care provider is much more handsome…Glad your pain has lessened.
I broke my left foot during a balance beam dismount when I was in gymnastics in high school. It sounded like a shotgun going off in the gym and I had no idea it was my foot until about 5 minutes later when I was walking down the hall to get a drink of water.
My coach said at the time, “You’ll feel that when you’re older.” I didn’t believe her…until the past few years when it gets rainy and damp and cold. Dang. -
Gorgeous photo of your babies. I hope the room service is continuing at home, with chocolat chaud and brioche being served up for breakfast! Rest up and don’t even think about finishing that wall, please …
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No broken bones yet. But I could have had a couple of close calls camping this summer. Bike pedal hit a fallen log and up went my rear wheel, and crash down on my L shoulder on the forest floor (lots of cushioning). Hiking down the boulders in the Sierra foot slid on sand on boulder landed on R hip and just below R elbow. Beautiful bruising and contusions. At 53, I guess caution is what I need to stay in touch with. Hoping to pain stays away and probably would also say to take the pain med. as recommended. Best wishes!
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No broken bones but recovering from a hip replacement does that count? Take care,know you are very loved and special to us all.
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glad you’re home and feeling better 🙂
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Glad you are home. Continuing in prayer for you.
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Oh sweet Corey thinking of you and sending best wishes and happy thoughts your way!
I bet you will still make it to all the brocantes! Teri…we are
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So glad you are home and not in too much pain. Sacha and Chelsea were beautiful babies and this is such a sweet, tender photograph. They are both still beautiful. Keep mending, keep mending.
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I’m glad you’re home and not feeling too much pain. It’s always better to be home isn’t it. Love the picture of your children when they were small. I hope you take it easy and don’t try to do too much…I know it’s hard but PLEASE be good 😉
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Home sweet home indeed! What a darling picture of Chelsea and Sacha.
I’ve broken an elbow and many years later an ankle. The elbow when I slipped and fell in the bathroom after my two boys had just finished splashing about in the bathtub. I went racing in to hang up their towels and heard the snap as I fell on my elbow. After I got them in bed that night I had been planning on painting a bedroom for the guests we had arriving in a couple of days. Needless to say, the bedroom didn’t get painted for several more months. Everyone pitched in and we had a nice visit even though I couldn’t do a thing.
The ankle was a most embarassing accidental fall on stairs in a theatre lobby! Again I heard the snap. Paramedics were called and wheeled me out to a waiting ambulance. Like you I had surgery and have some screws on each side of my ankle and a plate on one side.
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A greenstick fracture of my wrist when I was 9 years old.
I had seen the big boys in my neighbourhood riding their bikes – no hands!
Thought I could do the same.
But I didn’t have a bike.
I tried it on a scooter.
Spectacular crash and a ride home in a kind strangers car who they picked me up off the path. -
I’ve been fortunate in my life in that I never broke a bone, had to be sewn up, and the only stint in a hospital was when I had the flu at twelve. When I was 49, had a total hysterectomy by a laproscopic technique. Played Scrabble with my sister until 12:00 the night I got out of the hospital. However, last year I had a total hip replacement. Which was a horse of a different color. I had it done in Costa Rica and I told my surgeon I didn’t want strong narcotics for pain. C-R-A-Z-Y!!! The procedure went fine and I actually did fine, but if there is ever another time that might require pain medication….I say, bring it on baby!!!!! Don’t try to be a hero and eat good nourishing food. It really does help with the mending.
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So happy to hear you are back home. Wishing you lots of loving attention while you relax and heal.
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Take a chill pill, be still! Such a beautiful photo of your kids! I have torn tendons , but never broke a bone….I think the tendons hurt just as bad!
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In 5th grade my cousins and I played trapeze artists on their swing- I ended up with a broken wrist. My left wrist to be specific. I’m left handed. Needless to say the next 6 weeks were hard to deal with!
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Dear Corey,
WELCOME HOME!
So pleased to hear the pain has now subsided. Like many others, I hope you are able to take it easy for awhile. It is time for a little pampering to find it your way. I am sure many friends in, and around, your town have mobilized to help make life a bit easier for you: I am with you in welcoming them with open arms for they are doing that which I am not able, because of great distance. Bless each and every one of them and “Nurse Yann” as well.
Please take care of yourself, my precious ding dong.
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Glad to hear that the pain has subsided — now you must rest, eat plenty of dark green and orange veggies and fruits, and loads of protein. French bread is delicious but it won’t knit your bones or nourish your tissues.
Me? A broken ankle at 16, several broken toes at various times, a broken shoulder in my 50s, and, at age 34, a broken foot when I was 5 months pregnant — I do not recommend that stunt, as nothing heals properly when you are expecting … greedy wee baby!
Relax and heal. Lovely picture of your babies!
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Even with the joys of hospital romances it’s still better to be at home and in your own bed – knowing where stuff is and who can be called to help you with a glas of wine, sorry I meant to say a cup of tea of course!
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oh my, Corey – that photo is precious!
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Corey, what a blessing that you have the pain under control. I’m glad that you like to read as you will have plenty of time now. I hope you can let your projects be on hold while you heal.
My breaks include my left wrist at 15, ouch! I’ve also broken bones in my feet from running, a thing of the past. Last but not least, my little toes numerous times. Maybe I’ll learn to watch where I go, but probably not. Rest up! -
No broken bones but I keep spraining the same ankle. It is weak, they tell me and now for the rest of my life, I walk around more carefully than ever. An easy twist from lost footing will sprain it again. That would not be fun.
Sending prayers and good thoughts your way.
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