No...this is not about a trip but a TRIP...there's a difference. One is a lot of fun...the other is tripping over something and falling down. I had a TRIP the other night and it was NOT any fun.
It all started with plugging in my iPad. Not a big deal. BUT, the cable somehow got caught between my foot and my sandal and that was a big deal. By the time I realized that the cable was caught I was starting to fall. The fall happened in slow motion. I was aware of everything that was going on and I was desperately trying to fall ON the bed to cushion the blow. Instead I missed the bed and fell hard on the floor.
This house has a slab foundation. The whole house has a solid surface floor covering called "Luxury Vinyl Plank." Well the LVP is not soft and the cement underneath is not soft, and I slammed onto the floor. I landed on a knee, a shoulder, an elbow before hitting the rest of my body on the floor. I turned over and started wiggling different parts of my body to see if anything was broken and yelled HELP hoping the other DrC would hear me. He heard my scream, and came to my rescue. I was pretty confident I had not broken anything as nothing was so painful I couldn't move it (unlike the time the doctor accidentally broke my ankle...I knew immediately it was broken).
Imagine a beached whale. Now imagine that whale trying to get up on 2 artificial hips without dislocating them? All the while in pain? It's not a pretty picture. Between the 2 of us, we figured out a way for me to get off the floor. It was over. The aftermath was a big bruise on my knee, an achy shoulder and a laceration on my left forearm (I must have hit something but I don't know what).
Since this was right before bedtime, it took awhile to calm down and get to sleep. The next morning I could barely move. I played wounded slug and took it easy assessing the damage and found a silver lining. I had NOT broken anything. I know I have age-related low bone density, but it must be dense enough not to break. That's good news. The bad news is I still tripped. Bottom line, don't get caught in cables and fall. Remember, we're all in this together.
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