Ouch! That sounds like a really nasty week or so for you Ann, so glad you're beginning to feel better: please don't rush it though, all too easy to have another fall.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of ann sanfedele Sent: Sunday, 5 February 2017 8:02 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Ot; Just so you know... Last Friday I found the perfect way to clear my brain from the elephant in the room ... I fell off of a wheely chair (office chair in my kitchen ) - The chair has been tossed out.. it was not well balanced, and I was jsut sitting on it and leaned forward to pick something up off the kitchen floor... which slants a bit.. tried Not to fall (usually a bad idea) and the chair threw me like a mechanical bull at a Texas bar... I only slightly exagerate for color... sprained my lower back, hit the back of my head on the kitchen sink.... this was Friday night a week ago... I piled an icepack on my goose egg and another on my back ... No broken bones... I checked on line that the area of my head that got bumped was a pretty low candidate to cause a concussion (about 4 inches above the top of my left ear.) Ice wsa applied for about 3 hours to both areas, a lot of words with friends ws played and the serious news of the day ignored. Head wasn not very hurt and swelling went down quickly - but the way I twisted my back was giving me a lot of pain. two Naproxin Sodium pills were swallowed - I normally onlly take one if I hurt say 5 or 6 on a scale of 10.. this was like 15 on a scale of 1 -10. Then I called a friend who I knew I wouldnt impose on by crying and bitching to him, because he lives north of Boston, is wonderful at "there, there" and pretty savvy medically... and another friend in NY who is too imobile for his own problems to be able to come help. saturday I applied heat - I had some stuff here and a friend and neighbor fetched more.. got out with a cane on MOnday with some difficulty.. staye in for the worst weather on Tuesday, walked again on Wed, and each day after... getting out of bed was intense .. the layered foam was too squishy... again, helpful hands helped me remove a layer and roll it up in both my main bed and the office twin... Last night was the first night I could get out of bed with only moderate pain and today I walked about 1/2 a mile without cane... It was just so annoying because I had lost weight, had gotten a lovely check up in December , hardly felt the knee arthritis and was in full get things accomplished mode. Also had some weird stuff witht he computer but that seems to have been nothing.. .. It will surely be a month or so before I'm really right again, as long as I don't get too cocky and think I'm in better shape than I am... glad it didn't require hospitals or doctors or the like... There, theres appreciated. thanks for reading the rant ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
