NO!!!!

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The schools had just broken up for Christmas break and I had arranged to take Zaynah and some friends to the cinema. I was up early because I was taking Zaynah to her first acting LAMDA exam that morning. There I was downstairs, watching breakfast T.V. minding my own business, then the post came and it all went to pot.

As I bent down to collect the post, I'm still not 100% sure what happened, but I lost my balance and came down on my right knee. At first I just got up, post in hand and headed back to the front room. It's not the first time I had fallen and my knees had taken the brunt without obvious injury, so I thought everything was fine.  

I was limping a bit, but then I noticed that my lose fitting tracksuit bottoms were suddenly tight around one knee. I had a look and I couldn't believe how much it had swollen and it was getting tighter by the second. I called my mom who suggested going to hospital but I didn't hear or feel anything pop or crack so didn't think that was necessary. Also the swelling was so pronounced it would be difficult to see anything on an x-ray, also I'm not fond of hospitals 

My main concern was getting Zaynah to her exam because she had worked so hard for it and it was her first acting one. Luckily, as she had been given was a morning slot so my mom could take her before going to do dinner at my Granddad's.  

The next thing was the cinema trip. I didn't want to cancel because Zaynah's bestie was going though something at home with her nan's health so it was going to be a nice day out for them all.  I called the mom of Zaynah's other bestie to arrange if she could take them and if her son wanted to take my ticket. It was for Ghostbusters - Afterlife so not an animation 😁 Initially I thought or hoped my knee would be ok to watch the film but the pain was getting increasingly worse over a short space of time and I just wouldn't make it to the cinema.

I was really disappointed about not being able to go and I realise how easy it was to injury myself and scupper my plans.  Also I didn't want to let Zaynah or my mom see how much pain I was in so it didn't  really set in until after they left.

It seemed silly being sad/upset about not being able to take Zaynah to her acting exam or the cinema but it was more the FOMO. It was a look into a future where I wasn't able to do things with her because of my health.

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