Disaster Waiting to Happen!

For anybody who knows me pretty well, they always say "If an accident can happen, Martha will probably be nearby!"  My dear husband never forgets our Wedding Anniversary as I start  a month ahead of time, reminding him "Heh-you know we are getting really close to our 37th Anniversary, Remember?"  He will give me a look as if to say "Do you really think I would Ever Forget the day we got Married?"  My heart soars from those words and we don't feel the need to impress each other with gifts, as we know our Marriage is the Best Gift we could ever have!

Yet I know he sees all the things I can't do and so he started talking about doing something "special" this time, asking me if I wanted to travel somewhere (yeh, me in a car, miserable from sitting after the first ten minutes" and he knew-bad idea, and moved on to ask me if I wanted something, maybe a new Television?  My dear husband-I could see his face-as it hit him "Oh No-lets see how FAST she grabs this idea" and yes-I was running with it.  We have an older television that seems to weigh about one thousand pounds and we had been talking about the fact it was getting close to never coming on again, and so I jumped on the idea and suggested we go the next day-just to "Look" at some televisions.

We did shop and found a new one within minutes-both of us knew this was what we wanted and did not waste time, but told the excited sales clerk "write the order up, lets get this moving" and we were out of there within an hour. All we could talk about while driving home was how much fun it would be to watch the news,special shows on this new television. Then reality set in as it us, the old monster television needed to be moved to make place for the new one-all I could think was "How in the world will we do this?"

We decided the time had arrived, me promising to not touch a thing, my husband would do it all and if the old machine dropped and broke, well perhaps it was Meant to be that way!  The First Disaster happened when my husband started moving the monster-as it started to slide and he was on the ground, in its path!  I stood frozen-as my husband got whacked by the fall, but he moved just in time for it to only hit part of his leg!  He stood up fast, making sure that nothing was broken and on we went.

It was a comedy of errors-we figured our elderly neighbors were watching and wondering "who will go down first" as we pushed and pulled the monster outside, and somehow My husband managed to load it on a trailer.  My husband was so happy- and invited me to "Jump up on the Trailer" and without a thought, I did!  Disaster had arrived again-the second I moved my bad leg to step up,  my back "Screamed at me" and I knew-PAIN just arrived again! I sat down, with my husband looking at me, knowing what had happened.   He just shook his head in frustration, wishing we had never tried this.  Now he wanted the job done-so we could get away from the old monster television but as he went to push it over so it would sit flat, Disaster was still waiting and suddenly the Monster had landed on his Foot!

"Oh dear, Did that Hurt?"  The look on his face was all I needed for an answer and so we limped back inside, searching for heating pads and Pain relief.  Thank Goodness, I will be visiting my Pain doctor in the morning-but HOW will I explain about the Monster Television!

Today Disaster took two victims-it will be nice to just lay around on the sofa and let our new wounds ease a bit.  My Joy for this day was simply being able to still walk!