Very sorry about your unfortunate accident, Ann. My thoughts and prayers are with you and for a quick and complete recovery.
I find the older I get, the less control I have over my balance. You know you can always bitch and moan to us, Ann. We will always lend dozens -- if not hundreds -- of sympathetic ears. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:01 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> 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. > -- 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.
