GregK
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- Joined
- Jan 29, 2013
- Messages
- 3,295
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2012
- Country
- US
- State
- CO
- City
- Colorado Springs
i broke rule #1.
My wife was away getting her hair done. The housekeeper had been here in the morning, so all was clean an tidy.
It appeared that one of the dogs urped in front of the desk so I went to the nearby sliding door to get the towel placed there to catch the rain. In the house I walk with my Rollator, the 4-wheel walker.
My mistake was in bending my knees to reach the towel, just a wee bend. They bent fine, but then they just kept on bending.
O, $hit.
My ass hit first (in a maneuver I've previously referred to as an 'enhanced sit down event')
But with no core strength to speak of, once my ass hit ground zero, the rest of me had to keep going too.
I've got a head like a cement block (good German stock here) so the solid and resounding clunk got my youngest son's attention.
I also learned that it's hard to breath now, laid flat out.
Nothing broken. My rump's more than a tad sore.
My head's fine, but I need to check the floor for dents ...
So the moral is to be very careful picking things up off the floor.
My wife was away getting her hair done. The housekeeper had been here in the morning, so all was clean an tidy.
It appeared that one of the dogs urped in front of the desk so I went to the nearby sliding door to get the towel placed there to catch the rain. In the house I walk with my Rollator, the 4-wheel walker.
My mistake was in bending my knees to reach the towel, just a wee bend. They bent fine, but then they just kept on bending.
O, $hit.
My ass hit first (in a maneuver I've previously referred to as an 'enhanced sit down event')
But with no core strength to speak of, once my ass hit ground zero, the rest of me had to keep going too.
I've got a head like a cement block (good German stock here) so the solid and resounding clunk got my youngest son's attention.
I also learned that it's hard to breath now, laid flat out.
Nothing broken. My rump's more than a tad sore.
My head's fine, but I need to check the floor for dents ...
So the moral is to be very careful picking things up off the floor.