Making Use Of The Not So Good Stuff In Life

This is not going to be a serious look at the healing broken ankles, even though I certainly have a kind of skill at that, because, well, I’ve done that very thing. Or my body did, anyway, with expert assistance from my excellent surgeon.

Carolyn Cordon
3 min readMay 18, 2021

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My mending ankle … author’s photo

Falling over is one of the skills I seem to have acquired, and this image above is the result of my most impressive manifestations of that skill. I happened in September 2019, on an important day, the most important day in fact, in Australian sporting history, the day of the AFL Grand Final.

I’d been watching the big game, as we do, if we follow Australian Football, as a great many Australians do, because it is OUR game! Anyway, I’d seen the game, then once the game was over, I let our dog outside, and went out there with her.

I don’t know how it happened, but somehow, I managed to trip over nothing at all, trip over and go down in a painful heap, with excruciating pain in my right ankle …

I tried to get up, but couldn’t and it made the pain even worse, so I yelled out to get my husband to come and get me up. He came out, got me a chair to sit on, and helped me to sit down.

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Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!