Health, wellness...and avoiding smoke detectors

With about 3 months to go, staying healthy is a top priority. It's definitely hard during the winter months, too, with colds, flus and stomach bugs running rampant in the office. Yuck.

Since there are things you can do to ward off illness, the Turkeys are doing everything possible to keep from the sick bed. We are drinking lots of water, taking our vitamins, eating well (and at home more than out), getting lots of sleep and exercising several times a week. I also swear by Zicam every time I feel a sniffle or tickle in my throat (yes, it's likely mind over matter that I end up OK, but whatever).

However, it's not just health that we're worried about in the Turkey household. This concern comes with a confession: I am a giant klutz.

I realize that many of us have our moments of clumsiness, but somehow I manage to make it a nearly daily occurrence. Some of my more unfortunate (and recent) examples: cutting my leg open on a bike (when walking with it), breaking my toe on a chair and, in a moment of career brilliance, tripping over a phone wire at work and skinning my knee. And that's the short list.

As you can see, many of these injuries have been minor and generally easy to hide (with more sensible footwear, a band-aid, etc.). Yet, there have been also been more visible injuries in the past that would be fairly obvious in a wedding dress (think exposed arms).

And then there was the injury just before Thanksgiving...

Just about to celebrate our annual Friendsgiving dinner

 Can you spot it from afar? No? Let me give you a closer look...

See the cut over my nose?

When I look at photos now, it doesn't look that bad (it is covered in makeup after all), but this was not one of my shining moments...and I had a pseudo shiner that went along with this gash. Unfortunately there's not a great story behind this. I was attempting to reattach our smoke detector when it decided to fall down and whack me right in the face. Awesome.

Again, I know it might not look that noticeable in these photos, but when you think about your wedding day, the last thing you'd want is any sort of new / fresh wounds! This would definitely have been memorialized in our (close-up) photos had it happened just before the wedding. Luckily now it's just a faint scar (thanks to frequent Vitamin E application) and, to be safe, I'm completely avoiding smoke detectors until June!

So, to all you brides-to-be out there...am I the only klutz worried about visible injuries on the wedding day? Any suggestions on how to avoid injury or sickness prior to the big day (besides living in a bubble)?