Total bad falls in your lifetime?

Broke my arm wearing those plastic toy high heels when I was 4 or 5. They found pipe cleaners and a fingernail clipper in the
cast when they cut it open :ROFLMAO:
Fell off my horse once when a huge black snack came out of nowhere across the road and my horse literally turned in mid
air while in a gallop. Nothing broke but I was skinned up from gravel. Snake kept slithering. He was Arabian/Quarter mix so a bit
skittish anyway from the Arabian blood line.
Last year tripped over my dog in the dark and my arm slid down the edge of my dresser and ripped my skin back a good 6 inches.

That's all folks!
 
I can only think of one, when I was 10 years old: At a friend's house, with my little brother, we were leaving and somehow I fell down the flight of stairs, landing on the corner of a metal toolbox near my left eye. My brother, covered in my blood, was taken home by my friend, who told my mother, "Marcy's eye fell out." Luckily, it hadn't, but I was a mess, needed six stitches above and six below my eye, and was in excruciating pain for weeks.
 

-- One bad fall off of a high place when I was around 8... concussion, and most memories from before that time are gone.
-- Big fall down outside steps because of ice... whole side covered with ugly bruises. I was around 33.
-- Fall down driveway again on ice... neighbors saw, and the pride was hurt more than anything else. Mid 30s also.
-- Backing down the stairway steps while cleaning them... thought I was on the bottom step but wasn't... totally missed the bottom step and bounced my head off of concrete wall. That was a couple of years ago.
 
I’ve always managed to get up and get on with it so I suppose that the official answer is none.
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It seems like I fall at least once or twice each winter. Last winter I took a particularly bad fall that sounded to me like a watermelon or pumpkin hitting the pavement with a sickening squish/thud.

I managed to get up and get moving again but it made me realize that I need to become much more careful in picking my battles.

I still go out for a walk most days but now I do sometimes skip a day or two when the weather is bad.

This winter I’m going to try a pair of these spiked creepers to see if they help.
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The good news is that I don’t seem to have any problems in my little apartment.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I’ve always managed to get up and get on with it so I suppose that the official answer is none.
😉🤭😂

It seems like I fall at least once or twice each winter. Last winter I took a particularly bad fall that sounded to me like a watermelon or pumpkin hitting the pavement with a sickening squish/thud.

I managed to get up and get moving again but it made me realize that I need to become much more careful in picking my battles.

I still go out for a walk most days but now I do sometimes skip a day or two when the weather is bad.

This winter I’m going to try a pair of these spiked creepers to see if they help.
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The good news is that I don’t seem to have any problems in my little apartment.
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Not me, I keep bumping my knee at the same spot on the coffee table for years .....lol.
 
Not any serious falls or broken bones. I've started sitting down to take pants on or off since my foot got tangled in a pant leg when standing in the closet some time ago, and I bumped my forehead on the door frame, lost my balance, and made a bit of a knot on my forehead. I try to be very careful to avoid any falls since that is one thing that could take away my independence. If I have to get up in the night, I always sit on the side of the bed a minute or so before standing.
 
Falls when younger: a couple instances of missing a step(or 2) when descending a step ladder. injured my back good on 1 occasion. The other occasion I was stepping down out of an attic access and totally missed the step ladder, was really black & blue and sore from that one.

Falls when "older": Went down all the way to the ground maybe 3 times, escaped injury luckily...could have been ugly.
 
When I was 10 years old, I was practicing tumbling for gym class on my bed. I fell off and cracked my head on the room's baseboard. I needed stitches.

In 2002, I slipped on the stairs to the basement (at the old house) and broke the middle finger of my left hand. It's never been the same even though I had surgery.

I slipped on ice in my driveway in 2008 and broke my left fibula and dislocated that ankle. Seven weeks in a cast. My leg sure got hairy under the cast.

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I remember when I was about 19 years, and cycling 'at a pace' - my front lamp came loose, slid down the frame and jammed my front wheel - and over the handlebars I went.
(Sort of like this)

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I was lucky, as I heard the clunk I looked down and in doing so, hit the road with my head - on not on my face.
(But my Yellow cagoule was never the same with the addition of a Scarlet blush) .
 
I've only had three falls where I broke something or messed it up badly.

I fell down into the engine compartment of a boat and messed up a couple of vertebrae.

I tripped over a Hare Krishna at the ISKCON temple in Jaipur and broke my foot.

I fell down in my living room and broke my little finger. It was at the height of Covid and I couldn't get in anywhere to have it xrayed/set. It was obviously broken, so I went to the drugstore, got a finger brace and went home. I put on the brace, taped the whole thing to my other finger and it set....OK. It's a bit crooked and it hurts sometimes, but it's OK.
 
A couple of years ago I was out on the shore photographing a 1800s stone wharf/jetty that had been recently uncovered by changing channels here in the bay. I stepped over a small gully and both feet slid out behind me. My camera hit the floor first, followed by my cheekbone which hit the corner of the camera. This is a heavy professional camera built like a tank. The camera was fine but it broke my cheekbone. It still gives me the occasional twinge and if I stroke my face by the side of my mouth I can feel it tingle across my cheek.

This is not a grimace. That's how I was for a few months!

Click if you're not squeemish!
 

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