Roll me over in the blackberries... let's not do it again!

So 9 days after the "trip" I wrote about, I'm biking to work - first time after that "trip" - preparing to get up the hill to 1st Ave, so I decide a water break would be nice. I stop, get off the bike and get my water bottle. All the sudden the bike is wobbling and I can't get it - I'm not sure what happened. (Sometimes, I wish I had a video camera following around so I could watch it in slow motion) Anyway, the bike falls over, I go backwards and fall down into a shallow ditch with lots of black berries!
I lay there to inventory myself - I seem to be together - nothing broken. I did see my keys that came out of my pocket. Then I roll over and very carefully, place my hands between blackberry spaces - thank the good Lord there were gaps, and crawl back up the incline. Back onto the sidewalk.
A young man is headed my way - I assume to check on me and when he sees me reach sidewalk level, he turns back the other way.
I wave and yell that I'm OK.
And onward I go to the library....
My head and body were feeling pretty disoriented for a while.
My ride home was uneventful. Thank the good Lord again!
If I'd been young, I'd have thought to flash a selfie of me laying in the ditch, but I didn't.
Rachel took this photo of me walking one day this last week - probably Wed. I'm not sure....It's actually a collage photo.

Wiped out! plus update

I tripped on an out of alignment sidewalk while walking Buddy.
I splayed out. Both hands and knees got scraped and i banged the side of my face. Ouch.
We kept walking for a little while but I really wanted to go home.We still walked about a mile.
I'm not biking today.
I went to PT on Monday and I've been sore from those exercises already and my hands don't feel like holding onto handlebars. I don't think I could have broken anything, but my left wrist (the one I broke almost 4 years ago is hurting and a tad swollen. I've got ice on it.
I'm curious if my face will bruise.

update:
that night - I hurt really bad especially the right hand. So today (Thursday) I called the consulting nurse and went in to be seen. Happily, I have only bruises and scrapes! Just need to remember not to lift anything heavy! (which is much lighter than my normal lifting)

It's Mother's Day 2016

This is my first Mother's Day without my own Mom still here on earth. She's lived across the country from me for the majority of my life - but she was only a phone call away.
Last year, I was able to visit her in May. It was my last week of Leave from the kidney donation. She had been sick off and on and I know she worried about the kidney donation and I wanted her to see me in person. See that I was fine.

Sitting on the porch - the only photo I took on the trip.

It was a fun visit - short but filled with a lot of errands that her assisted living sent me on. It was hard for her to get in and out of a car, so I don't think we went anywhere together - not that I can remember.
I bought her some nice white velcro tennis shoes, I bought new sheets for the hospital bed.
I am so grateful that I could make that trip.
I had hopes of returning in August. But she passed away 6/29 at 91 years old.
Having her in my life for so long is a blessing I'm grateful for. But I miss her terribly, especially on Mother's Day.
I think she'd be laughing if I could tell her about my fitbit and trying to reach all the goals. And she'd worry that I'm getting too skinny - even without seeing me!
This week, I added biking back into the mix. I biked to work on Wed and Thursday - and even with doing squats and all this walking, the hills were difficult!
Yesterday, I biked to the Farmer's Market - I had all the time in the world - my favorite kind of day off.
I spoiled myself on Mother's Day weekend too! (Dave wasn't there to stop me! He had to do a funeral)
I bought: a "rag rug", a new tiny purse to replace the African one that is getting thread-bare, 4 tomato starts (I hope I don't kill them), 3 felt-board sets, 1 tile (that I'm sure my kids would have purchased for me had they seen it) that says: "Best Freaking Mom Ever" And some asparagus for dinner!