So, in general I am not a clumsy person, no more than normal anyway.
I do seem to have an issue between myself and stairs though, specifically the ones in my house-me and my husband live in a Victorian house, which we love for all the period features, but Victorian houses also come complete with very steep stairs. I've had a few run-ins with these stairs in the past-minor slips normally, but two incidences have led to hospital visits, one when I fell from the very top of the stairs to the bottom, and I took large amounts of skin off my back, legs and arms, and another incident where I fell down the last four stairs, stumbled and hit the door which resulted in lots of X-rays and talk of serious head injuries.
Thinking that the stairs had well and truely put me in my place, I am now very careful whenever I come down these stairs. Though it seems that they haven't done with me, and yesterday I had the latest incident where I completely missed the bottom three stairs, and landed straight onto the ankle of my right foot, with the foot completely turned inwards at a rather sickening angle, and a large crack followed closely behind.
Huge amounts of pain followed and involuntary crying, and then a very painful ride to A&E and a several hour wait, without any painkillers,while sat in reception waiting to see a doctor. This is not my idea of a nice time, not even a mildly bearable time thanks to the massive amounts of pain that my foot and leg were sending out by then.
After a long, long wait I was told that I've ripped all the major and minor muscles and tendons in my foot and leg (when I do things, I like to do them right), and cannot put any weight on it at all for several months. And of course, I sew with my right foot, the one that is now out of action for the foreseeable future.
This also stops me from going to the post office, and I'm only good for answering emails and listing newly made items now.
So what I'm basically saying is that, we still have one fabulous, creative, hardworking and dedicated machinists, designer and pattern cutter left, but I am out of action for the moment. So your order may just take a few days more, and it may take a few days more to get your orders sent to you. And as we mail all our parcels in bulk and then collect the tracking info later on, it may take just a touch longer to get the tracking info for you. But we are on top of things and doing our very best, and whatever I can do without having to move, I am doing. I am just asking for a little bit of patience (and perhaps a small amount of sympathy). This is also a warning for all of you people who live in Victorian houses-be very wary of those stairs, you never know when they're going to attack next.
