I am an idiot. Every seen the movie “Philadelphia”? Denzel Washington plays a lawyer; a personal injury lawyer. He has a potential client who wants to cross a street, but decides to do it just at the point where there’s construction & a big hole — and of course barriers to keep the idiots away. He falls in the hole & breaks his arm. Denzel tells him that of course he has a case.

This morning I took the dogs for a nice, long walk, and we checked out the new park near the trail we often walk on. At the end they were pretty tired, so I had them do a long down-stay underneath the shade of a tree (it’s still quite hot & humid here).

I wanted to work on their stays with distractions. So I did things like walk backwards away from them, run around them, jumping jacks, etc. Chester did great; Lola did okay — she still needs work on her distractions.

There was a small hole near where they were laying. I knew this, having stepped in it a few times. Rather than move them away, tho, I managed to jump right into the hole and twist my ankle.

It didn’t seem too bad at first. I took them home, and then went back out to do my food shopping. By the time I got home, unloaded the groceries, let the dogs out, and ate my lunch — elevating my foot & icing it — it became pretty painful. I can now just barely limp on it.

I don’t plan to see a doctor. I’m not in such pain that I’m moved to tears, and while it’s quite painful to put any weight on it, I think it’s really just a simple twisted ankle that needs a little time resting.

Unfortunately, my husband has late meeting tonight and tomorrow. Chester is supposed to have agility tomorrow. Right now, I plan to put them in daycare. It’s really painful having to move around, and Lola is never real content for long just relaxing.

Although she is better if you’re there relaxing with her. The cats don’t really seem to notice anything’s going on with me, but then again, that’s probably because they’ve slept through it all.

On the other hand, as I laid on the couch with my foot on a couple of pillows, I had Lola under one leg and Chester on my stomach.

I love both my cats & my dogs very much; but I think dogs make better nurses. Although if this was winter, and I had a blanket over me, I think Simba would be helping out, too.

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