I'm a wreck

I'm still using the brace for my carpal tunnel ( on occasion) and now, I'm using another one for my right leg.  Yesterday morning, I ran a couple of errands and stopped at Walmart on the way home.  I was limping but that's not unusual for me.  By the time I got home, my right leg was hurting and a few hours later, was almost impossible to stand on due to the pain.  But it wasn't enough to convince me to go to urgent care or the hospital. 
Once I dressed for bed, I noticed that the right leg was slightly larger than the left one... ok, so that should account for the discomfort.  Got up this morning and, yes, it was still a little swollen but still no big deal... or so I thought.
I had to go back to the car repair place to see about scheduling an appointment to have a motor replaced behind/under the glove box.  That was about 12:30.  As I'm walking down the steps of our deck to go to the car, I felt and heard something 'tearing' in my right leg - right behind my knee... dropped my purse in the process of trying to take another step with my right leg.  Had to wait for pain to subside, but finally made it to bottom of the steps, got my purse picked up and hobbled the rest of the way to the car... I figured whatever it was would ease up in just a few minutes.
Was I ever wrong!  It got worse.... I struggled out of the car and got into the repair shop, made the appointment, and struggled back out and into the car.  Drove home and pulled  into the drive & started honking the car horn trying to get hubby's attention ( the ol' fool won't use a cell phone!) 
He finally came to the door and I yelled for him to grab his walking stick and to get in the car... explaining to him that we were on our way to urgent care and that he might have to drive us back home.

After x-rays and several different staff members checking my leg out and giving me tylenol (for pain, yeah, right!), my leg was wrapped with ace bandage ( the brace they had wouldn't fit my leg, but I told them I still had one at home from when I tore the meniscus in my left leg) and I was sent home with notice that the orthopedic drs office would call me no later than Friday for an appointment.  ARGHHH   the least they could have done is give me a script for something stronger than Tylenol.

Ok, to make this long story a bit shorter... there won't be any sewing done here for at least the next few days - probably close to a week... darn it all!  I'll be able to trace my fatcatpatterns flakey friends BOW and maybe get the pieces fused and cut out, but no sewing with the machine... I'm not ambidextrous and using my left foot on the foot pedal just doesn't work well.

Hubby and I are scheduled to go on a color tour via open train car on Saturday... this could prove interesting ( trying to climb up the steps with the leg brace on) .

Well, Buddy is demanding my attention....

take care....
ttyl....