It would have been funny, except for the pain.

Yup, if it weren’t for the searing pain, I would have been laughing. For some reason the song Melissa Etheridge sings came to mind – the one that says "it only hurts when I breathe". It’s not meant to be funny but it makes me laugh every time I hear it. Hopefully the incident this afternoon will have me laughing in the near future because otherwise the cat is in deep trouble!

So what happened you ask? Well, I had just gotten up and was stumbling towards the stairs to go down and get a cup of coffee and get going on a couple of projects, one of them being cleaning my kitchen. It’s so bad it has become a project to get it done! lol. Anyway, from out of nowhere, or rather out of one of the empty bedrooms, my cat decides to be quiet for once in her life and comes tearing by me like the house is on fire. She scared the wits out of me and I jumped and lost my footing and went flying down the stairs. I not only reinjured my ankle which was already healing very slowly from a sprain, but also smacked my head (luckily on the carpeted stairs!) and also reopened a pretty bad cut on my hand I gave myself two nights earlier. NOT a good start for getting things done today! I basically spent the afternoon with my foot up and my hand useless by my side trying to ignore the throbbing in three different parts of my body. *sigh*

Are you laughing yet? LOL! No, I didn’t think so since that’s not what was so funny. You see, the cat is always vocal. Always. I am never in doubt as to her whereabouts because she never shuts up.  But today she wasn’t making a sound but was moving like hell on wheels. She is also a gray cat, and for the past 5 years, we have had squirrels living in the attic during the winter. We can hear them scratching in the walls sometimes and I have always joked that one day there would be a scene like in Christmas Vacation where the squirrel jumps out of the Christmas tree. Well, when the stupid gray cat ran out of nowhere without her usual meowing while I was still half asleep, I jumped because when I saw her out of the corner of my eye, I thought "Oh Shit! The squirrels finally got in!!" and all I could think of was the mess it was going to be making on all our newly painted walls and before I knew it, I was skating down the stairs probably looking pretty much like Chevy Chase did in the movie!

After I landed and I figured out it was the cat I had seen, I really wanted to laugh out loud, but wow, was I in pain!! No permanent damage though thank goodness and I will be fine soon enough. The cat however….