Ouch - my long distance sympathy and good wishes for a rapid return to full fitness.
As I get older I'm more and more careful about avoiding situations that could cause falls. The problem is they can occur in unlikely situations. The last fall I had was actually in the USA - on the train from San Francisco to Oxnard. Got a head bump similar to yours but, fortunately we were staying with friends for a few days so I could rest up without the constant travelling of the previous 4 weeks. Get well soon. Cheers Brian On Sun, Feb 5, 2017, at 09:01 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > 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. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- 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.
