Badly bruised

I didn’t think much of it when it happened, but... God I’m hurting!
I had a little accident last Tuesday, when I was stupid enough to climb on a desk chair (with wheels!) to reach for something. An all too sudden move was enough to have me falling, by which I landed with my chest on the edge of the file cabinet.
It really didn’t hurt that much at the time. The pain is increasing every day though. And now, five days later, my right side aches like hell. I mean really LIKE HELL!
I don’t know how to sit or lie down anymore and when I do I hardly can get up later. Coughing and even breathing is painful, sneezing feels like being shot by a firing-squad. You can imagine I didn’t get much sleep last night.
Now my internet doctor tells me that it will take about six weeks for bruised ribs to heal. SIX weeks!! Man, am I screwed.

Human Rights Day

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)