Such an idiot!

So most of you know that on bad weather days like yesterday and today the ER's and labor & delivery units fill with patients that shouldn't have been out walking around in the snow and ice, but did anyway, and have tripped and fallen. We see it all the time in the Birthing Center because pregnant women tend to be some of the most clumsy! Most of the time it turns out to be nothing and all of us nurses quite frankly get sick of seeing our rooms full of women who have fallen in the icy parking lot. Much to my dismay, as I was running out to my car this morning at 6 am to try and get to work early because we were short staffed, I became one of those clumsy women I so dread seeing during the winter months. Of course all the slushy snow we had yesterday had a frozen layer of ice on the top, and if you can picture me with a St. Mary's mug full of ice water in one hand and my work bag, purse, and a lunch bag I use for transport of my "liquid gold" in the other. I, of course, slipped on the ice, twisted my ankle, and fell to the ground. So I sat covered in snow and wet from my mug of water, trying not to scream out in pain, wondering how I was going to get back inside...so I scrambled my way off the ground, held onto Dillon's suburban, and hopped on one leg back inside. If the neighbors had only had a camera...