Ouch! What a moron!

So last night after I put the kids to bed, I was getting ready to head downstairs and at the very top step of the staircase my foot slipped and I fell down the entire flight of hardwood stairs. I've got knots everywhere, but thankfully, not on my head, although maybe it would have done me some good, knock a little sense into me.

But boy, do I ever hurt something fierce. I'm just relieved that nothing seems to be broken. I was kind of worried about my collarbone and shoulder area because I couldn't move it very well last night, but today, despite some pain of course, I can get more movement. I think I might have just pulled the muscles in my shoulder there.

I slept with ice packs on the worst bumps, wrapped ace bandages around them to keep them in place. The bump on my left thigh is horrendously huge. It's like I'm growing a new body part! *laughs* Some of the bumps are beginning to bruise, they're going to be massively big in a few days I can tell.

My husband absolutely flipped when he heard me crashing down the steps, yelling for me not move. He was sure from the way and how far I had fallen that he'd be having to take me to the ER. I sat at the bottom of the staircase and just sobbed. Not just from the pain, but because I had gotten the wind totally knocked out of me and I HATE that feeling. Plus, I felt like a total moron.

Hubby keeps trying to get me to take a Vicoden for the pain and I keep refusing, saying I'll stick with my ibuprofen. So I'm just shuffling about, and it seems the kids are drawn to my areas with the most significant pain. I've been knocked into I don't know how many times this morning. Now they're all at school so I should be safe for a while.

Anyway, I'm telling you, somebody should lock me up when I'm PMSing it. I get so freaking clumsy. It's always when I have accidents. Like the one a couple months ago where I cut my finger near off. Dang hormones making me all disoriented!

So...what stupid/embarassing things have you done lately?

 

Luckily, I have done nothing of real embarrassment or stupidity lately.

I need to get out more.

I hope you are feeling better soon.

 

Thanks, I'm sure I'll be just fine after a few days...just heavily bruised.

 

Yeowch You're a lucky shiela thats for sure, at least you seem to be doing better now though. It could have been a hell of allot worse

I'm always bumping into things, even if I know it's there, I'll accidently slap it or run my knee into it.

In this case, I fell right over it. I was at a mates place a couple of weeks ago with my little sister, just hanging around. We decided to leave around 9pm-ish so my mate decides to drive us home, because we couldn't be bothered walking, so we're walking down the drive way and we get to her gate, which is only waist high and usually locked up.

I wasn't really paying that much attention so once she got over the gate, I put a foot up to jump over it, but I slipped and fell head first over the other side onto the concrete

Woke up a little disorientated and had a nasty scratch under my eye and a couple of cool bruises but that's about it really

My sister couldn't look me in the eye without laughing for about two days afterwards

 

take the vics


my wife fell down the stairs back when our son was like a year old or so

she was holding him and somehow fell down the entire stairs with him. He was fine, but she had the biggest, purplest bruise on her ass that i've ever seen.

I was like, "why the hell didn't you just let me push you down the stairs and let me get some satisfaction. You were gonna fall anyways, at least this way you don't look like such an idiot, and I get the joy of pushing your dumb ass down the steps."

she agreed next time she is gonna fall down the steps, I'm allowed to push her


that can't be soon enough

 

Oh my goodness nightrose! That had to have hurt pretty bad! Eeek!

See, I'm normally really coordinated, it just seems that prior to that time of the month, I do all kind of things I normally don't. I remember one month when I dropped our entire dinner all over the floor while carrying it out to the dining room table, it was totally ruined of course, since we have a cat and there were cat hairs all throughout it!

I must say though, I would much rather be dropping objects than myself!

 

Girl, stay downstairs when you're PMSing from now on!

 

TGK, you're such a nut.

 

Hmmm, but that would be kind of impossible olhippie, because my bathroom is upstairs, and the other bathroom is in the basement. More stairs! I'm just glad I didn't fall down the basement steps. That would have been even worse!

Needless to say, even though it's pretty cold, I'm about to take those steps barefoot, better grip. I was in my slippers last night because my feet were cold!

 

you need that t-shirt that says "i do all my own stunts."

 

Well then wear lots of padding during that time of the month.

 

Padding where, all over, or as in a diaper?

 

All over unless you're prone to fall on your ass.

 

Boogabaah, hey! My oldest son actually has one of those T-shirts, and it's quite appropriate too because that kid is CONSTANTLY falling, tripping, or something along those lines.

 

I think we need to see pictures of the bruises.

 

For sure!

 

Trust me, they wouldn't be very pretty! Unless you like seeing nasty goose eggs sticking out.

 

I wish I would, there's naturally more padding there!

 

Indulge us!

 

Yeah, right.