My wife had gone away one business and left me and my daughter to fend for ourselves for two days. I took leave for those two days and thought I was going to have some “me time”.

After dropping my daughter off at school one day I though I have to take my two dogs to the vet for their routine injections so I piled them into the boot of the car with their basket and blanket. I put the back seats down so that they could see out the windows.

I got to the vet and got out the car to open the boot, but as I opened the boot they both jumped out knocking me over. I fell on the bricks cutting my foot open and ended up lying on my back with the dogs licking me in the face as if to say “what’s wrong, come on get up”.

After we got home I though I could doctor myself, but a week later my foot still had not got any better so my wife took me off to the doctor. It was quite a deep gash so he ended up putting this plaster over the wound Read more…