Christie Brinkley tried to save a bird, but instead she ended up with a black eye. “We interrupt this holiday to take a little unplanned excursion to Miami for cat scans and stitches following an accident trying to save a bird,” she wrote on Instagram on Monday. She’d been in Turks and Caicos when the bird-saving mission failed.

“My grateful heartfelt thanks go out to our wonderful Parrot Cay Family who got me to the boat and plane, and my friends in Miami who found my A Team at University of Miami Hospital led by Dr Askari and his professional caring and adorable team,” she wrote.

We interrupt this holiday to take a little unplanned excursion to Miami for cat scans and stitches following an accident trying to save a bird. My grateful heartfelt thanks go out to our wonderful Parrot Cay Family who got me to the boat and plane, and my friends in Miami who found my A Team at University of Miami Hospital led by Dr Askari and his professional caring and adorable team and to my bestie @artminster who spent her much needed and deserved holiday by my bedside .. I ca’t possibly thank you enough and I offer you a pain check .. I mean rain check! Lol! @artminster #grateful #thankful #itcouldhavebeenworse! #youneverknow #liveachday

A photo posted by Christie Brinkley (@christiebrinkley) on Apr 6, 2015 at 11:34am PDT

Brinkley is fine now… though she did feel the need to explain “bae.” What an old.

I’m back in Parrot Cay and is it my imagination ( or the bump on my head ? ) that has me seeing the clouds as B A E (before anything Else) which is reserved for very special sweet people like all of you who wrote such kind well wishes…I think this sunset is for all of Y O U! Thank you BAE!

A photo posted by Christie Brinkley (@christiebrinkley) on Apr 6, 2015 at 4:10pm PDT