Hello everyone. Last night I was exchanging messages with one of my big
fans Dolly Perry and she was encouraging me
to upload some kind of a video to my channel to let my fans and subscribers
that haven't been following me on Instagram, Facebook or my community page
know what happened to me on our first family vacation in three years to Idaho.
So I'm sitting here telling my friend Dolly there is, even if I could manage to
set up the camera and videotape myself, there's no way to assemble it. I can't
use the computer, I can't use my right arm at all. So I was just sitting in the
chair, just contemplating the day, all of a sudden my phone popped up and said it
had made a video of our trip to Idaho, without me even asking, I looked at it
and it was pretty good, but it didn't go into any explanation about why I'm not
gonna be making any garden videos for a while. But it gave me the idea to make a
video of some kind to kind of bring you up to date. So what happened is we went
up to Idaho and we had a great couple of first days. We went snowshoeing in the
Farragut State Park which was a winter wonderland, beautiful and covered in snow.
We only saw two other people there, it was amazing. Then the day before
Christmas Eve, we went skiing at Schweitzer mountain up in Sandpoint. My
son's girlfriend was, had only had one experience skiing and it was not a good
one. I wanted to get her off started on the
right track, and I've taught a number of people how to ski,
so we spent most of the day working on that, and only had got a couple of runs
in after she retired for the day, but that was all a great success. The next
morning, she was not planning to ski and so it was just Walker and my husband and
we went out for a few runs, and we approached a lift that I hadn't been on,
which I learned later has quite a reputation,.. flashback,
I learned to ski in my 20s in Aspen and I worked as a ski lift operator for at
least three winters, so I'm very experienced and I know what I'm doing
and I was in place, in time, and I turned to look for the chair, I turned this way
and the pole was this way, and the chair swept me up, it was an old chair that
does not slow down, does not have the gear to slow down, and it swept me up and
slammed me down on the icy path. So I knew as soon as I hit my arm and then my
head, boom, boom, I knew that I was injured, and thank God I was wearing a helmet. Of
course, I haven't skied in 20 years without a helmet, so, of course I had my
helmet on, but I hit my head very hard had a big big bump here. What happened to
my arm is it when I landed it went straight up, this may be too graphic, but
anyway, it's broken right here at the top of the humerus where the ball
goes into the shoulder joint, so that sheared off, so I can't use my right arm
at all. My bicep tendon is dislocated as well so, I I actually had this reflex to
go up and just scratch my eye today with my right hand and it didn't make it. It
didn't make it past right here. As you know, my garden is very cramped and the
walkways are literally about 14 inches wide, 16 inches wide, so
navigating in there with a camera. it's just not going to be possible. Even if
Erick does all the work on Thursdays, it's not going to be possible to cover all
that and do my Thursday workday videos, and all that. So this is a first step, I'm
surprised I'm even doing this. What I want you to do is please go back and
support my channel by watching my playlists, watching videos you've seen
before, seeing all the videos that you haven't seen. If you are on Instagram and
Facebook please follow me and if you're not, if you only do YouTube, I can still
interact with you directly. You can go to my community tab from my home page. When
you look at the home page, it says videos, playlists, community, and YouTube has kind
of upgraded this feature recently so that I can post a photo, I can post an
update, and you can respond, back and forth. Today is a number of firsts: I, this
is the first time I've put on makeup, since the accident, which was Christmas
Eve, the first time I've put earrings in my ears, the first time I've ever put
makeup on with my left hand. That was interesting, but Dolly assured me that
you guys would want to hear from me even in my banged up state. If you look around
my garden, it's green and lush and there's a lot growing. I mean, it's not as
lush as it is in the summer, but I have passion fruit vines and I've got kale
growing in my green stalk garden and I've got all of my,
I've got a huge succulent garden which I've never even done a video on all my
succulents. I planted green manure in a bunch of containers because I just
thought that will be so much easier to germinate. I just popped in the legume
seeds you saw that in my very last video of 2017. Actually I've got still got
eggplant and I've got a volunteer tomato that's
huge out there, and, boy, I just sounded very southern didn't I? I don't even need
to start seeds if I don't want to, but I really want some flowers and I would
really like to plant a few tomatoes and a few peppers, seed them and see, you know,
because I certainly hope in a couple of months I'm gonna be functioning. Anyway
thanks so much for listening and if you enjoyed this please give me that thumbs
up and let me know in a comment below your support. This is not the way that I
had planned for this beginning of 2018 to go, but life throws us these things
and, these unexpected things, and you just have to deal with it. I'm trying to find
the silver lining. I haven't found it yet, but I'm trying to be positive. Today a
friend of mine who fell broke her nose was unconscious in the hospital for four
days, she looked horrible, she sent me the pictures, she looked horrible, today she
sent me a picture how she looks today she had her hair blown dry her makeup on,
dark circles under her eyes, but, you know, I thought if she can do it, so can I. And
I know a lot of other people are suffering. I still haven't heard from my
Puerto Rico subscribers. I don't know what's going on, so I would love to hear
from you guys, and just hang in there with me through this recovery period.
I really, really appreciate your support. See you next time.
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