08/27/2026
I'll start this post off by saying it's totally fine to laugh at this story, because honestly, I am too 😂
Last night when I walked out of the house to go take care of rabbits and chickens, I found one of my hens walking in our driveway, which is no where near the fenced in orchard that they have to roam.
I tried to walk out and around her to stop her from going down the driveway... Well, instead of turning around and running back towards the house, she bolted around me like she was a football player. 😒 I tried once more to get her to turn around and head back to where she belongs... She pulled the same move again and ran straight into the road with a car speeding by just a couple seconds later, which spooked her into the ditch.
I slowly approached, and was less than a foot from her. When I reached down to grab her she flew back around my left side back into the road... Since I was in the middle of reaching for her, I automatically followed the same direction, but in the process of trying to turn quickly to grab her, I slipped in the ditch, landing on my right knee, annnddd I caught myself with my left hand as I spun. The problem is my hand went down right on the edge of the road and I heard a loud snap on impact. I didn't give it much thought initially. I grabbed the chicken a couple seconds after that and started walking for the house.
As I was walking back, I was looking at my thumb which was turning bright red and I could no longer move it, and the pain was increasing significantly.
I got to the back steps and hollered in the door for Andrew to come here, and I just laid down on the step.
He came out and asked what in the world happened, and why was I holding a chicken 😂
He brought me out an ice pack and called his sister and asked if she could meet me at the office to take some xrays of my hand.
While she was getting ready, Andrew drove me and the chicken out to the coop and I did chores one handed.
Then I drove myself into town and met Jessica Wi**er at the office to do xrays (thank goodness for having multiple chiropractors in the family). She was looking at the xrays saying yep, definitely looks broken to me, but let me call mom to get her opinion too... So she called Kristene Clark, who just happened to have another chiropractor friend over at their house too. So 3 different chiros looked at the xrays and said yep, it's broken. Yay me, my first broken bone in my 34 (almost 35) years of existence... All because I didn't want to see my chicken get flattened on the road 😂
Anyway, Jessica then drove me to Walmart to get a brace... And some yarn, because that was important too... 🤣 Jessica put the brace on me while in Walmart and we just took the box to checkout.
As we were checking out, we could hear it start to down pour. My sweet sister in law was kind enough to go out and bring the car up to the door for me.
She then drove me to my mother in law Regina Rentz 's house to pick up an essential oil blend that she made up for me after hearing what happened.
After that, we went back to the office and I drove back home. Once home I messaged my family and told them what happened... And the conversation that followed was too hilarious to not share, so I've included that for your viewing pleasure too 😂
I took some pain meds, ate an ice cream cone (that I had to have Andrew open because I couldn't grip the package to rip it open 🤦♀️) and went to the craft room try to finish working on the crochet t-rex I'm in the middle of making for the Harvest Extravaganza that's happening in less than a month.
It's sore. It's purple. And the skin is shiny because it's swollen. So much fun 🤣 But hey, I was pretty proud of myself... I never cried!
Edit: I forgot to grab the last screenshot last night until my sister just reminded me... So i just added that to the end of the pictures!
