What's working

It started as I was stepping out of the bathtub the other morning.  I slipped, one leg in, the other out, into a sort of bare-butt split that landed me down hard on the tile floor.  The only real injury I sustained was a badly stubbed middle toe.  But within two hours, the bruise was a brilliant black and purple and it hurt to walk.  I couldn't put on a shoe.  My toe swelled and pulsed, as if my heart was beating inside it.  

Wincing, I made it to my book group that evening, to a meeting the n...