Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Might as well do something since I've been immobile all day!

So so bored today since I've been sitting on my couch literally not moving except getting up to pee and eating. Hopefully tomorrow I can get back into life. Anyway you may be interested in what happened.

So I worked 50 hours last week from Tues-Sun, including 4 doubles with hardly any break. Sunday by far the longest - 15 hours, no sitting down. I was working a party upstairs at my restaurant with 4 other servers, it was an engagement party for our general manager's sister - 120 people and my other servers were sucking so I was reloading all of the food trays and busting my butt for hours. At about 830, we were getting ready to bring up all the different dessert plates and my other manager and I were running around looking for the last dessert to plate it. We were in the back prep kitchen and we realized we needed smaller plates for the tiramisu instead of a platter so I ran to get a bunch of them. I literally had 20 plates stacked on top of each other in my arms as I walked to my manager to ask him where I needed to put them. Mid-sentence I slipped on the floor (because the dumb busboys just washed it) and slammed my head, back and butt on the floor, obviously dropping the plates as this happened. About 10 of the plates broke on top of me, leaving me with 2 insta-bruises on my arm. Because I don't cry in public, I burst out laughing but it hurt. This was all at about 9:30pm. Everyone kept asking if my butt was ok, which I knew would be fine lol lots of padding there! But I knew my neck would hurt because I'm prone to whiplash. So I woke up monday morning in super pain and thought i might be ok but then about 2pm when I went to shower for work I was dizzy and blurred vision and so instead of work I went to the hospital where they took xrays and said I have a sprained neck and gave me valium and strong ibuprofen, which led to me having to take today off work too and I guess they gave me off tmrw also. So the funny thing is that I only have 1 shift this week after sure an extreme last week. but i think im ok. Hope you guys are good!!!

3 comments:

  1. mich sorry to hear about the fall! i had a mini ice-related biff last night ... heels after an ice storm wasnt such a good idea... oops! hope you feel better!

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  2. thanks, im off the valium today and back to work tomorrow, they better keep away from the plates!

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  3. I'm so sorry you fell. It sounded like it must have hurt. I also fell at work last week. I bruised my knee but the worst part about it was that our stairs are metal and everyone came running out of their offices to see if I was alright. haha oops. I guess we are all farly clumsy.

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