A Moment of Instability
12.09.07 (2:28 pm) [edit]
I fell today, entering the hotel we're staying in. There was still some ice on the sidewalk where most of the ice had melted from salt, and I had on simple flats with no traction. Before I even knew what happened, I has lying on the ground, my laptop next to me.
I will no longer wonder how falling becomes a danger when you get older. I'm 22, and when I fell on my hip, it smarted and probably will leave a bruise. If I had done the same at 70, it may have done significantly more damage.
Luckily my laptop survived as well.
posted by: routanne (reply)
post date: 12.09.07 (12:37 pm)
It could have been worse, you could have been carrying in beer.
posted by: joliefille (reply)
post date: 12.09.07 (1:02 pm)
Reply to: routanne
Well, I don't drink due to religious beliefs, but I can see how a broken bottle of beer would make the fall even worse. :)
posted by: Barnabus1 (reply)
post date: 12.09.07 (1:55 pm)
Sometimes when older people fall and break a hip, somehow they don't live past it!! I don't understand why, but I've known several people who died after a fall...don't know the mechanism of it..or the why's...it don't seem to make much sense!
posted by: joliefille (reply)
post date: 12.09.07 (2:49 pm)
Reply to: Barnabus1
It must be something to do with a decrease in spirit that comes with a lack of mobility.
Think about it, if you're laid up in bed with a cold for a couple days you go stir-crazy,
Maybe they are starving for a change of pace and that finally weakens their spirit's hold on their already fragile body.
posted by: fractalmom (reply)
post date: 12.10.07 (4:59 pm)
one day, and this is not at all profound, so you can read it safely, i was fighting with dh. stupid stuff. this was um...two houses ago and about a decade or so. wanting to make a point, i slammed out the kitchen door, slamming it extra hard to validate my claim, went right down the four steps into the driveway. right past my austin healy, and started past the camper that was parked in the main part of the driveway, huffing and puffing in all my "dammit i'm right...glory".
whammo, slipped on the ice and landed right on my back. felt like i broke it.
so there i was, outside in about 20 degree weather, in my sweats and a shirt, mad, and on the ice. perhaps hurt, perhaps not...but certainly in an awkward position.
and the worst part was, i couldn't even call for help because, well, we were fighting....
so i started laughing, and then lay in the driveway, on the ice, on my back, laughing like the idiot i am. then i got up and went inside and apologized.
i'm glad you and your laptop are okay.
posted by: joliefille (reply)
post date: 12.11.07 (9:30 am)
Reply to: fractalmom
Wow. That is a bit funny.
My mother, being very Catholic, would say that God was trying to tell you something. :)
posted by: fractalmom (reply)
post date: 12.11.07 (12:03 pm)
Reply to: joliefille
and me, being very catholic would say God has a rather bizarre sense of humor at times, usually surrounding me or my life. which, is probably why I lay there laughing my ass off.