When Is the Last Time You Fell?... Just Curious

[MarkFromSea]

Originally Posted by Lisa and Pic

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

Thanks! LOL Aggravating for sure.

[Carol607]

I am always falling but my best story is from a few years ago. My hubby and I went to a wedding. He was just recovering from hip surgery so I was catering to him. Here I am in a lovely brand new cocktail dress and brand new silver heels. I went to get us some food from the cocktail hour. I had a plate in either hand and walked down the steps beautifully. I reached the floor and got onto the dance floor area right in the middle of the floor. With 300 people watching, my new shoes slipped. I fell backwards, landed on my butt and both plates of food went up in the air and fell on my beautiful new dress. I started crying out of embarrassment but my friend thought I was hurt and rushed to help me. I think everyone else thought I was drunk. I couldn't wait to leave the party. Today I can laugh about it but I was mortified when it happened.

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by JasmineNoelle

I took a "red neck" fall when I was moving an old antique shipping trunk for my Mom. She wanted it moved out of her shed and it didn't have any handles to pull it with and no rope to make any. She didn't want to wait for the guys to get there to help so I had a "gen-u-wine brain fart"........Duct Tape. Yep, I fashioned a pull handle for the shipping trunk out of Duct Tape. (A very, very lame idea, but at the time it seemed brilliant......brilliantly stupid)

I now had my new Duct Tape handle attached to the HEAVY trunk and started pulling slowly across the back yard. It is a slow process bc this darn trunk is uber heavy, but I am rather smug at this point bc it is working......then halfway across the yard the Duct Tape, America's do all/fix all, BREAKS and I go backward catching myself with my right hand. At that time I hear this sickening crunch and I look down and see my right palm is no longer facing downward, but is now sitting at a wierd angle and already starting to swell.

My Mom looks down at me and tells me to get up and quit joking and then goes inside. When she comes back outside and I am still on the ground she realizes it is not a joke. Mom and I are off to the ER. DX: broken Right arm three places due to stupid idea.

P.S. Don't trust Duct Tape...LoL

wow that was a bad fall, how is your arm now, That story reminds me of a redneck fall my husband and I had together, only I was fine and he was not.

Ian was laying a paver brick patio under our deck and we were almost finished. He rented a tile cutting saw from home depot. It was Sunday and dark and the store would soon to be closing so he was in a hurry to get it back on time. So he puts the saw in the wheelbarrow and asks me to come help him get it up the hill in our backyard and out to his truck. So he is pushing the wheelbarrow up the hill and he has me behind sort of pushing him, either him or I or both of us slipped because the grass was damp. We go tumbling down the hill backwards and so did the saw and wheelbarrow. The saw flew off and hit him and the saw blade put big gash in his head. He wanted to continue getting it up to the truck but eventually he got dizzy and had to sit down because blood was dripping everywhere. But typical for my husband he was hell bent on getting the saw back to Home Depot on time. So I had to get a neighbor to come help me load it into our truck. After convincing my DH he had to go to the ER he has me drive him to the urgent care which is on the way to Home Depot, I dropped him at the door and continued on to Home Depot. When I got back to pick him up they were stitching him up, he wound up getting about 25 stitches in his head, on two layers. And I got the saw back on time

He has also had other bad falls resulting in injury, he rides his bike to fast and shirtless, he was at a park on the bike path and see's a group of people ahead of him, he yells on your right and they all move right (they did not speak English) so to avoid crashing into them he went into the gravel on the side of the path and crashed and flew over the handle bars. He was raw with road rash and gravel stuck in all the cuts. If that was not bad enough he wound up with a broken collar bone. Another time I was pulling him skiing, the boat had not come down to normal speed from when I had excelerated to give him the hard pull up he likes, he did not wait for the boat's speed to level off he immediately started criss-crossing the wake, he caught an edge wrong and fell really hard. This resulted in broken bones, torn ligaments and tendons in his foot, 2 surgeries for that. My husband has a love for speed and that scares me and makes him mad since I am always telling him to be careful.

[margaritaville]

It was a little more than a month ago. I was using the back hallway to go from one nursing unit to another, there was a pipe leaking water ( no sign) and I slid and fell. It was embarrassing because one of the medical residents came through the hallway at the same time and he pick me up from the floor. Good thing I wear scrubs and a lab coat, not skirts. That resident still Asks me if I'm ok every time he sees me. I ended up with a bruise on my butt. Probably the worst part of it was when I fell I spilled my cup of coffee.

[jp4m2]

It didn't happen to me but my DD. It was winter and she was parked next to a curb in front of her house. She was leaving with someone so my DD walked do the drivers side which was on the road side and it was icy. Her friend looked through the windows and didn't see my DD. Her friend said."Where you at?" My DD said ,"I'm under the car." As soon as she grabbed the handle she slipped on some ice and went right under the car. She laughed herself silly about it.

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by Magnus

My last BIG fall was March last year. I wasn't quite awake and fell down the stairs. Well, perhaps rolled down the stairs is a better description. LOL Considering the distance I rolled down, I was actually surprised I wasn't badly hurt. Needless to say, I was FULLY awake after. I did limp around for the next couple days though. hahaha

The last small incident was two days ago when I almost stepped on Zoey. *sigh* She does this ninja thing and sometimes sits/stand really close to my foot when I'm doing something so I don't notice her. Anyway, I able to not step on her but lost my balance and hit my head on the wall.

Oh the things we do for our furballs~!~!~!

I was cringing reading about your fall down the steps. Oh, and your head hitting the wall too. Isn't it amazing that sometimes things turn out okay?

Originally Posted by JasmineNoelle

I took a "red neck" fall when I was moving an old antique shipping trunk for my Mom. She wanted it moved out of her shed and it didn't have any handles to pull it with and no rope to make any. She didn't want to wait for the guys to get there to help so I had a "gen-u-wine brain fart"........Duct Tape. Yep, I fashioned a pull handle for the shipping trunk out of Duct Tape. (A very, very lame idea, but at the time it seemed brilliant......brilliantly stupid)

I now had my new Duct Tape handle attached to the HEAVY trunk and started pulling slowly across the back yard. It is a slow process bc this darn trunk is uber heavy, but I am rather smug at this point bc it is working......then halfway across the yard the Duct Tape, America's do all/fix all, BREAKS and I go backward catching myself with my right hand. At that time I hear this sickening crunch and I look down and see my right palm is no longer facing downward, but is now sitting at a wierd angle and already starting to swell.

My Mom looks down at me and tells me to get up and quit joking and then goes inside. When she comes back outside and I am still on the ground she realizes it is not a joke. Mom and I are off to the ER. DX: broken Right arm three places due to stupid idea.

P.S. Don't trust Duct Tape...LoL

It sounds like the duct tape could have been a genius idea. I am going to learn from your story and never try that!

Originally Posted by ShowGirlLola

I've had 2 fairly bad falls recently. I lose my balance a lot, but I'm really good at catching myself before I actually fall.

My room is in the attic and the steps leading to it are really bad, very narrow, steep, and slippery. I'm frequently asked how I haven't killed myself on them yet. I always lean my weight towards the steps, so if I lose my footing/balance I'll fall on them rather than down. Falling up the steps is a regular occurrence.
In May I was coming down the steps and slid down a few on one foot, luckily I caught myself on the railing. I scraped my foot, hurt my arm, and totally jarred my body.

Lola is not allowed to climb the steps, I'm sure she could but I'm afraid. My poodle was twice as big as she is and she fell down the steps a few times (never got hurt).


Then a few months ago I was trying to step over a baby gate, it blocks my room from the step area, with Lola in my arm. I didn't get my leg up high enough and I fell into the gate. I caught myself on a shelving unit thing, so I didn't fall all the way down. It hurt so bad, I had to hobble back to my bed and lay there for a few minutes. I bruised the entire front of my calf, it took about 2 months for it to stop being tender and the blue tinge to go away.
Lola was fine, just startled. She took care of me while I was laying down.

Amazing that you saved Lola with the gate fall. It sounds like your calf hurt for the longest time!

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Last time I took a significant fall (bc I fall all the time without injuries) while wearing shorts, I tripped over a sprinkler head outside my house that didn't retract when it should have. My hand were full and my shoe caught the edge. I have a big battle scar that I tell people I got from crashing while mashing on my bike. LOL so not true.

At least you are getting something out of that battle scar! I hate falling with stuff in my hands and bet your things scattered everywhere.

Originally Posted by crystalsmom

Oh I hope you are alright, my story is much like yours. I only fell once and it was about five years ago in a parking lot with ice, two men came to help me up and they fell. It would have been a good video if anyone would have had a camera. I was fine.

The video thing... I was watching on the news last night and they showed a bunch of people falling in the street in NYC. Embarrassing for those people! Certainly glad I wasn't caught on tape, though who knows, because there are tons of security cameras where I was crossing near an IRS building.

Originally Posted by Carol607

I am always falling but my best story is from a few years ago. My hubby and I went to a wedding. He was just recovering from hip surgery so I was catering to him. Here I am in a lovely brand new cocktail dress and brand new silver heels. I went to get us some food from the cocktail hour. I had a plate in either hand and walked down the steps beautifully. I reached the floor and got onto the dance floor area right in the middle of the floor. With 300 people watching, my new shoes slipped. I fell backwards, landed on my butt and both plates of food went up in the air and fell on my beautiful new dress. I started crying out of embarrassment but my friend thought I was hurt and rushed to help me. I think everyone else thought I was drunk. I couldn't wait to leave the party. Today I can laugh about it but I was mortified when it happened.

The way you described it made me laugh. This would make a great scene in a movie. Though I imagine you were mortified at the time.