Total bad falls in your lifetime?

[Imogene]

I spent a lot of years re-schooling horses other people ruined, so I’ve had more falls than I can count, including a couple where the horse decided to go down with me.

Then there was a couple of doozies off the snowmobile.

Three concussions — two of them a miracle I can still think

 

[MaidMarian]

OK here so far….

 

[MountainRa]

College age, fell out of a tree resulting in a concussion. No broken bones.

 

[David777]

As a single digit kid living in the Sacramento urban hills, oak trees were everywhere. At least before all the vast housing projects bulldozed it all. We kids climbed oak trees everywhere that was a huge sport. And that includes to heights any fall could be lethal. As an adult, I've extensively backpacked in the Sierra Nevada, especially away from trails where there are frequently places like with large boulder talus where even a single fall could be lethal. And ski Tahoe recreational moguls every winter, where I do occasionally fall. The last fall a few years ago didn't seem that bad initially but required over 5 months before I could lift my right arm above my head. The above noted, have never broken any bones.

 

[Warrigal]

I've measured my length, face down and face up, quite a few times but never any damage done so they don't count. My bone density is good but even so, as an octogenarian I am more careful these days to avoid falling.

 

[Hopeful1]

In 5th grade, I broke my right arm in PE running to first base when a small white dog ran in front of me and tripped me.
Broke my collar bone about 2 years ago when I was looking up at the sky and tripped over an uneven sidewalk in my neighborhood.

 

[oscash]

I've had a few falls over the years but never broke any bones, oh, except when I was about 11 years old and fell off the top rung
of the gate, waiting for the postman, and broke my middle finger of my right hand. Thought I'd get a couple of weeks off from
school, but my mother said it wasn't necessary.

 

[Radrook]

My three most painful falls were:

Tripping on the curb causing me to fall-face first and land on the pavement with bridge of my nose and breaking it.

Slipping on some sidewalk ice and slamming my right hip joint into the pavement..

Slipping with my left foot and submerging my right foot into extremely hot bathtub water and being unable to remove it for about twenty agonizing seconds because of lack of traction.

 

[CallMeKate]

hmm. Yeah, that might explain it. ()

I've wondered about it many times, Frank. @Murrmurr

 

[Trish]

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.

When I was working, I had to walk up and down several slopes - not quite hills - and I bought similar to those (from Amazon) after seeing people slipping over when it snowed.

They were good in the icy weather but, I used to take them off before I went inside. Our work reception had polished wooden floors and I thought the chains might scratch the floors. Good for outside though.

 

[Jazzy1]

Just one bad fall when I was in my 30's. I slipped on ice and the result was a broken wrist an a torn tendon in my ankle.

 

[oslooskar]

I broke my left leg and ankle in several places in a parachuting accident in October 1979. I'm smiling in the photo because I was an idiot for jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

 

[hearlady]

Four. I fell from a moving car and crunched my nose.
Fell from attic steps backwards. No injury but the wall I fell into had a hole the size of my bum because that's what stopped me.
Fell off a step ladder and broke my elbow.
Fell gardening and broke my wrist.

I'm more careful now.

 

[Ruthanne]

I've seriously had too many to count. The last time I fell I broke my ankle and foot 9 10 years ago I think. It got better.

 

[old medic]

I have had more than my fair share of fights with gravity, 4 that required a trip to the hospital.
Worst was nearly fatal, 5 days in a coma, 8 weeks in the hospital, 11 surgeries, 6 months in a wheelchair, year and a half of PT.
Still need a cane on occasions.