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| This little spider hanging on for dear life was definitely my favorite lol!! |
I haven't done a lot of piping in the past, the very first attempt I had made at piping was for the snowflakes on the Christmas cake:
I was definitely much better at it this time around, I think I had the icing consistency off when I was making the snowflakes. I also used a different recipe for the royal icing, rather than using Sweetopia's recipe as I did the first time around, I found this highly rated recipe on allrecipes.com which worked much better for me.
So the feedback I received for the Spiderman cake was really good, the customer was so excited when she saw it, and her son was really happy with it too, she sent me back an e-mail a week later:
"I would like to thank you for an amazing cake, Riley and the children loved it ( only problem they all wanted a spider :) ) The mud cake was amazing never had one quiet like that one . I’m sure you will get a few orders from my friends!"
So I had finished the cake the day before it was to be delivered and good thing too because I started feeling unwell the next morning and by that afternoon I had developed a full on flu!! My husband delivered the cake for me while I took some cold and flu tablets and crawled into bed.
Unfortunately the cold and flu tablets I was given by the doctor (I can't take regular cold and flu tablets at the moment as I'm currently still nursing) really messed with my head and I was having trouble judging distances and kept bumping into things all day. Later that night when I had Baby Z asleep in my arms I went to sit on a chair, misjudged where the chair was, clipped the edge of the chair with my right hip and fell heavily on my left hip.
Since I was holding Baby Z I wasn't able to put out my hand to break my fall like people normally would, and I fell in such an odd angle and fell so heavily. The pain was excruciating!! My husband and FIL helped me to lie down on the ground because I was starting to black out from the pain.
I laid there for about half an hour while we waited to see if the pain would recede, but it was just getting worse and my left leg was starting to tingle and go numb, there was an excruciating sharp pain just to the left of my groin that wasn't receding. Eventually we decided I must have done some serious damage (actually, I kept insisting on it from the beginning - I just had to convince my husband that it was serious!) and since I couldn't move my legs at all, couldn't sit up without excruciating pain we decided we had to call an ambulance to take me in to the hospital.
So the ambulance arrived, and my wonderful paramedics, Steve and Matt dosed me up on morphine and some other awesome drug in a green whistle thing (seriously, that stuff messed me up! haha), then got me loaded into the ambulance and followed my husband back to the hospital (We live sorta out in the sticks! They had enough trouble finding the place and thought it would be easier to simply follow my husband back in haha!).
So once I got admitted into the ER and was assigned our wonderful nurse, Jacob (who just happened to be the same male nurse we were assigned when we went to the ER a few months ago for my husbands asthma attack), and was given more morphine, they took some x-rays and announced that I had fractured my pelvis. Awesome.
So now I am stuck on bed rest for the next 4-6 weeks (6-8 weeks healing time all up), can only get around on crutches, and am in a large amount of pain and discomfort. Lovely.
Coincidentally, my mother actually fractured her pelvis when she was 7 months pregnant with me. Not only that, but she actually fractured her pelvis in the exact same place as I've fractured mine! At least they kept her in hospital for 2 weeks before sending her home, I was discharged the very next day!
The nurses at the hospital told me that it's actually quite surprising that I managed to fracture my pelvis simply by falling off a chair, normally that type of injury they only see in car accident victims!! Of all people to manage this sort of injury, it just had to be me...
