Took a nasty fall

... and landed in the St. Vincents emergency room for 5 hours last night. That's my spine there, and thank goodness nothing was broken. But you wouldn't know it for as bad as it hurt. I was darting down my carpeted stairs in socks, when my feet flew out from under me, and I landed square on my lower back on the bottom step. My roommate drove me to the hospital.

I came home doped up on vicadin and muscle relaxers. My poor wife was up all night worried, because in the hospital I didn't have any cell coverage to call her. She called my roommate, who used spanish to explain that I was okay, but imagine how horrible that was for her to be so far away and know that I was in the emergency room. I think she suffered more than I did....




<Mental note: do not dart down stairs in socks.>... I think that's one of those "should have learned in 1st grade" things.