A less-than-average Tuesday morning

I made it in to work today, which seems like quite an achievement after the last couple of days. But it was a bad idea. I shuffled up the street to get a bus, and had to walk further up the road to the ticket shop and back (because everything is so efficient and prepay only these days). Also in the process I had to go around a big cordoned-off section with police everywhere because there had clearly been an accident, involving a motorcycle, and I don’t think the rider of that bike would be in a very pleasant state.

Then, in order to get anything like door to door transport to my work I need to take two buses, and even that involves a few walks, and I had just missed one, so thought perhaps I could walk the second half. Big mistake. Very big mistake. It became altogether excruciating. Then, while I am shuffling along the path in a world of my own hurt just trying to put one foot in front of the other, I come across a fellow lying unconscious on the footpath with blood pouring out from under his head. I didn’t actually see what happened, but it had only just happened and having my senior first aid certificate I should probably make myself useful at times like this, but I couldn’t even bend over at this point and four other people gathered around and were calling the ambulance, there really was nothing I could do, so I shuffled on.

I made it up the stairs into the corridor outside my work and all went black and I felt terrible and nearly collapsed in a heap outside the door. But I made it to my desk, sank to the floor sweating profusely and just had to lie there for a while. My colleague is standing over me saying ‘dude why are you here?’. This was a very good question. But all is actually quite OK at the moment and my manager has given me a cab charge to get home, which is nice. It’s amazing what a little bit of rest does. I might try to work from home for a couple of days so I can stay off the walking for a while. I’m so annoyed with myself over all this, but that is the way life goes sometimes.