Another survival

We had delayed a trip back East because of a death of a close, beloved friend, sort of cousin.
Things were now preppred and ready to pack. We were to leave the next day for our trip,
Comming into the house that early evening, I decided to fill the bird feeders so that I wouldn't have to do it the next day what with packing and leaving for the airport.
I still had on my boots with the yak tracks on them to keep me from falling in the ice and snow.
When I stepped out the back door, I could see the snow and dropped another load of white and ice in my pathway. About the third step out something went wrong and I was sailing feet first into the sky, head down toward the ground. There was a crack like a breaking peice of wood. The back of my head hit the ground. Stunned, I watched my daughter yell for my husband and she came over to me.
That was the start of a 5 month lesson. A journey in patience, endurance, resigning my life to a hold pattern.
Broken legs can and do heal. Our bodies are designed to heal. But its not a process that we would ever chose to partake of on our own.
Here it is mid June. I can walk across the house on my own. I can cook, and get around fairly well. No grace with it, watch for the tricky uneven paths, the tangled weeds etc. There is a new uncertain mode of progression here but there is progression. Helping me has taken a tole on what we can get accomplished past the normal stuff.
I have enjoyed the view in the new house, the sun, the clouds, and our general comfort. But it has mostly been a "from a distance" feeling. This new house is home. My feet are back under me though one is not so smooth. There is still not much done outside. And I am 2 years older, and somehow in a completely different generation than before the Firestorm.
Life keeps on rolling. We have lost some very special people in our life. Things we have taken for granted before are still on the " must do list", but without the urgency we had last year.
More lessons. More losses. But I think if I really think about it there have been some personal gains-- but also some personal challenges that I am not so certain that I am up too.
I guess, its more of just "take a deep breath, put on patience, lean on that spiritual strength and keep trucking.