[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by swjones

I fell two weeks ago. My 6 month old Biewer Finley raced out the door. He was having so much fun running around as fast as he could. I somehow stumbled in the driveway while trying to grab him and fell. Skinned knee, arm, and bruised hip. Had just had a pedicure, and somehow the fall chipped the polish off my toes which made me more upset than my injuries.

You sound like a great pet parent while your little guy was having a ball. All that money for a pedicure and then it chipped. I am sure you were not a happy camper.

Originally Posted by DBlain

Wow lots of scary falls. I fall a lot, our floors and stairs are wood and slippery and I am often in socks. One of my last big falls was going down the stairs in the dark carrying a dirty dinner plate, I fell halfway down and bruised my back and butt bad, I tried to be quite, because my husband was sleeping but started sobbing, I think more from the shock of the fall, so it woke my husband up.

I also slip in the garage A LOT and it pisses me off, my husband did that speckled urethane coating on the floor, I told him to add more sand to keep it from being so slippery when it gets wet but he did not do it everywhere, or put enough on especially in the center), I am in and out the garage since I garden and even though I am very conscious of that and walk with baby steps I still have real close calls, which hurt because I wrench myself into a weird position to keep myself upright. Each time this happens it starts the fight over again about my husband not listing to me

My worst was on my front porch I was barefoot before company was coming and was cleaning the window, I jumped up to get a cobweb and came down and rolled over the side of my right foot. I fell down into the garden smack into the middle of an arbovitie. I wound up breaking my foot and it took 6 full months to heal. After 3 months of no healing I had to spend 3 months wearing an electronic bone stimulator to promote bone growth.

I will be going skiing to Park City the first week in March, I will keep my fingers crossed that I will not be adding a story to this thread

Wow, you have had some bad ones, Donna. Nothing worse than broken bones and torture on that stimulator!

I do relate to steps with no carpet. When we had our floors done, we had our steps sanded too. What a mistake. Piccolo kept falling, so we ended up only doing wall-to-wall on the steps. What you do for your little ones!

Originally Posted by MarkFromSea

Just a couple weeks ago, after driving about 100 miles to go ice fishing, I stepped out of my van, slipped on the water covered ice and bam, smashed my back in to the step of the van. After a few minutes of evaluating the damage to my back, I drove the 100 miles back home with out punching a hole in the ice to try my luck at some perch and trout. My back was fine in a day or so, my ego took a little longer. LOL

200 miles for a stupid fall! aggravating I am sure. Glad you were okay, though.