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Post by melanell on Aug 5, 2025 11:56:12 GMT
I make a real goal not to fall. I try to be cautious. That being said, I have had 2 complete crash to the ground type falls in recent years. One was while on a nature walk---I missed seeing a root, but didn't miss getting tangled up in it. I was on the ground before I even realized I had tripped. And I got back up really easily. About a year ago I fell in the bathroom. That was just stupid. I had been sitting on the edge of the tub, shaving my legs, and one of my feet had fallen asleep. When I stood up, I didn't compensate enough for not having any feeling in that foot and down I went. Luckily my bathroom has enough empty space that I didn't crash into anything other than the floor. But I felt really, really dumb about that one! And that one hurt, too. Plus getting back up was a bit clumsy since my darn foot was still asleep!  (I have fallen more times in the less recent past, but I don't remember many of those. I fell twice while pregnant with my first, which I do remember, and once as a teen when I actually broke my ankle, but the other older falls have faded from memory.) |
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Post by 3boysnme on Aug 5, 2025 12:12:57 GMT
Twice because of my cat. Luckily nothing was broken. Both falls happened in my home, no one else around, so luckily I didn't hit my head or anything serious happened.
And twice again because of ice on the ground. Again, nothing broken. Just my pride because both times I was out in public.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 5, 2025 14:51:02 GMT
Actual fall... probably a good one once a year.
Trip? I have corgis. I have learned to shuffle in the kitchen to avoid falling.
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Post by txsweetpea on Aug 6, 2025 15:55:31 GMT
I have fallen 6 times in the past 10 years. The two times that were the worst, I landed on my face. Once I ended up with a broken orbital bone and the other time with a huge goose egg on my forehead. I still have some nerve damage related to the broken eye socket.
Now I try to be very careful with foot placement especially when I am wearing my trifocals and am going down stairs.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 6, 2025 16:05:28 GMT
I originally thought 'never' but I thought about it more, and there's been at least 3 times in the past few years that have been really bad. I am clumsy and trip / run into things a lot, but I rarely hurt myself very bad.
The first in recent memory is tripping over the threshold of the doorway coming into work with an XL QT soda cup in my hand... It went flying, and so did I. I was more mad about losing my soda than my actual fall, lol. The second one was sometime last winter, when I slipped and fell on our icy front walk- I again went flying and landed on my butt / hip / elbow. That one hurt.
The worst one, I'm sure was a hilarious visual when it happened-- it was a "Charlie-Brown-kicking-the-football-but-missing" type fall when I slipped on one of the dogs' antlers laying on the floor. I slipped, my leg flew up into the air, and I landed on my side on the wire/wicker basket that holds their dog toys. I didn't think too much of it at that time, but my side hurt for MONTHS whenever I coughed, and a couple months afterward I finally went to urgent care about it to ask 'why does it hurt so much when I cough?!?' They did an x-ray and told me 'you have two ribs that show they're healing from being broken... do you have any idea how that happened?' !!! That fall is the only thing I can think that would have done it. It took FOREVER to finally heal all the way.
(I am nearsighted and I blame some of my clumsiness on my lack of peripheral vision when wearing glasses-- the rest of it is just natural, lol.)
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Post by snugglebutter on Aug 6, 2025 16:21:11 GMT
Last year I tripped on the stairs at my dd's dance recital - knee straight into the edge of one of the steps. It was bruised for a while.
About a month later I tripped on a step at my oldest's college orientation. It was much less of an ordeal but I think like 10 dads came to my aid. A little embarrassing lol.
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Post by malibou on Aug 6, 2025 16:45:34 GMT
Well, I just came home from a quick trip, and the night before we left I was playing with my great niece in the yard and fell. I came home with a fractured arm. My first such incident.  |
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Post by me0605 on Aug 6, 2025 17:28:31 GMT
IN 1993, I fell down my basement steps and broke my left wrist- 2 weeks after having a baby. In 2010 I fell once every three months--it was like clockwork- no idea why. Most of those falls were mostly just embarrassing, but with one I scraped my face and sprained my right wrist the day before we left on vacation. In 2017, I fell at work and shattered my left wrist and broke my right elbow (yep- both arms). Then last year I fell on a walk and scraped up both knees and sprained my right wrist.
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Post by aprilfay21 on Aug 6, 2025 18:25:59 GMT
Maybe 10 times in my adult life, at most. I trip and stumble way more frequently, but not full on splat.
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Post by Linda on Aug 6, 2025 18:27:47 GMT
The worst fall was in 2008. I fell in a parking lot and came down on my left knee. It didn’t instantly hurt that much, so I just drove home. Well, I could not get out of the car once home. In 15 minutes, it had swollen up like a basketball and hurt horribly. Long story short, I had broken my knee cap (patella) cleanly in half. It was a very painful fix and recovery. Still bothers me. I did that back in 1992...fell on the (concrete) floor of the garage. Got up, walked inside and sat with my leg elevated - figured it was just bruised since it didn't hurt nearly as much as dislocating 2 years prior had...and couldn't stand up again. |
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Post by Linda on Aug 6, 2025 18:30:11 GMT
The very idea that I could count is laughable. sitting right next to you on that bench... |
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Post by edie3 on Aug 6, 2025 19:52:21 GMT
When I was maybe in 4th grade, I stood on the edge of the tub to get down a velvet dress that was "steaming". I slipped and fell. I guess I was screaming because my 2 permanent front teeth hit the tub and shattered them. I remember my mom running around picking up all the teeth fragments. Another time we were touring the Hershey factory and I was reading a sign that said Please watch your step, and I fell down the stairs.
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Post by oh yvonne on Aug 6, 2025 20:39:30 GMT
oh my god these falling stories have me shuddering!
I honestly have *knock wood* never fallen as an adult and now that I'm older I'm super aware of tripping hazards as I'm scared to death of falling. My bff fell off her porch step one time and it was unreal how much damage she did to herself.
Just yesterday I was out watering my tomatoes and I normally wear these cheap flip flops from Old Navy, and they almost caused me to fall. I kicked those off my feet like they were on fire and threw those things away so fast!
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Post by callmenutz on Aug 7, 2025 3:57:42 GMT
Several times but the last one on February 10 was a doozy! I got a brain bleed and ended up in the hospital and was only supposed to survive a few weeks so I chose hospice. I have terminal cancer but am in remission and I beat this and got kicked out of hospice! 😁
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Aug 7, 2025 4:54:51 GMT
A number of times, although thankfully most were just "look like a doofus" types of stumbles or almost-falls. I've rolled my ankle multiple times though - always the same ankle and twice it's been actually sprained badly enough to be in a boot (ugh). But none of those times were full out face-plant falls. A few memorable full out falls: Once I fell on my backside by slipping coming down carpeted stairs wearing "mule" type slippers (backless so they were not secure) -- that one resulted in a broken coccyx and hurt a LOT! I no longer wear (or own) that type of slipper. About 10 years ago I tripped over a section of sidewalk that had been displaced by a large tree root. I had just gotten out of my car to head into a party at a friend's house, and I was carrying a bag containing chips and salsa in one hand and my purse and keys in the other hand. When I turned to lock my car and deposit the keys back in my purse, I was completely blindsided by the bad spot in the sidewalk. I could see this fall happening in slow motion so I turned just enough to catch the brunt of my fall with my elbow...saving the chips and salsa, but -- sadly -- also breaking my elbow. Oh, and I cursed (not quietly and not a nice word) when I went down...not realizing my friend's neighbor was in their front yard playing with their kids. He (the dad) saw the whole thing, then came running to make sure I was OK. I was like I'm so sorry I swore in front of your kids! Sooo embarrassing! I went on in to the party, told my friends what happened, got an ice pack, then realized after a while that it was more than just a bruise - it was swelling a lot and getting very painful...at that point I left while I could still drive home. Then DH took me to the ER. Don't ever break your elbow!!! It hurts and takes a lot of PT to get full movement back without pain. We still joke about me breaking my elbow going IN to a party before even "bending the elbow" to have a drink.  When I was in college I fell doing an ice skating drill where you weave back and forth in and out of a line of pylons...and somehow managed to cut my thumb (of all places) on my skate...graceful I was decidedly not! LOL Because I know I'm a klutz, I try to be very careful now and always hold handrails, fully look where I'm going, etc. |
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