Woe is me.

Eve · Post by **Eve** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:41 am

Heading off for work this morning, I am descending the flight of concrete stairs to the car park under my building. You know, those stairs you go down each day thinking "I gotta be careful, it would really suck if I was to fall down these stairs, prolly kill myself..." and, of course you know how it ended.

As I was lying at the foot of the stairs, flat on my face I thought "ok. I'm alive.. this is good. Now, how many bones have I broken and which limb should I try to move first.

Well, to cut a long story short, unbelievably, nothing is broken (and I have the xrays to prove it!) although nearly every bone in my body feels like it is! I have buggered ribs, both knees, right ankle, right foot and right elbow.

Bio, I was sympathetic towards your pain, but hell, I didn't wanna be this sympathetic

Looking forward to tomorrow morning after a night in bed, not moving. It's gonna be a bitch, I expect, but hey, it could have been way worse and I can't believe I walked (albeit hobbled) away in one piece!

Looking on the bright side as always

Eve

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:09 am

OWWW, dang it...I hope you recover quickly and the stiffness goes away soon!

Call the land lord and make sure he knows that the steps need fixin'. If you lived in the US, you could threaten a lawsuit to move the process along.

Recover soon!

Post by **bio** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:23 am

Geeze! I'm glad you're ok.. BUT DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!!! I'd like to actually meet you some day (we've been talking over the 'net for what... 7 or 8 years now).

Heh... I have some spare pills left over. Care for some Oxycontin or Vicodin?

Rest, get better, heal up, and send me some naughty pics!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:49 am

From 1 stair vet to another - glad it wasn't worse!!

Get better soon!

Bugs

Pigman · Post by **Pigman** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:36 am

Really odd how you forecasted your own crash. All of us are glad you are ok. From now on, always see yourself going down the stairs safely!

I know from hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riding miles, that the bike always goes where I *LOOK* . So as I lean into that tight turn, the last thing you do is look over at the shoulder of the road.

Get into a nice hot tub, grab a beer or whatever you got, and praise whatever you believe in that you are OK!

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:14 am

Awww, Eve!

I'm glad you're ok! I have a small set of concrete steps (about five rather deep ones) that lead from the sidewalk through our yard down to the front door of our basement apartment, and I am always having horrific images of Enid falling down them running through my head. *shudder* I hope you aren't too sore in the morning! Love & recovery wishes from Alaska!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:01 pm

And here's a story to reinforce your need for security....

When I was a wee lad between 1.5-2.5 yrs old, I had a rep for running and dive bombing all over the apartment we lived in at the time. I should mention that we lived in an upstairs apartment, built in the '50s or '60s., with concrete and steel stairs and tile floor landings.

I was the firstborn, so my parents were still learning the ropes. This day my folks would learn not to leave the front door open and unattended....

I was doing my running and dive-bombing thang, so the story goes, and being the curious toddler all toddlers are, I noticed that there was an open door where it was usually shut. Being the curious toddler, I investigated said door. Being an energetic toddler, I investigated energetically....

I don't recall if Dad heard a crash. I do recall he heard a scream that sounded familiar, yet distant. My folks followed the sound to the front door, which was open (insert various exclaimations possibly seasoned with profanity) where the noise got louder, much louder. They looked down the stairs to the tile floor landing below, and there I was.

Now those who know me personally can attest that I am more than a little stubborn and hard-headed at times. This was apparently set early on in life, for when my folks rushed me to the ER, all the doc could find wrong with me was those tile prints on my scalp.

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:23 pm

Now we know the story of how entomologists are created!

look out Eve, you may start liking bugs.

Eve · Post by **Eve** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:34 pm

bugfreezer wrote: Now those who know me personally can attest that I am more than a little stubborn and hard-headed at times. This was apparently set early on in life, for when my folks rushed me to the ER, all the doc could find wrong with me was those tile prints on my scalp.

Well there's the explanation, I'm stubborn and hard-headed too!

I'm up and moving, and it wasn't that bad this morning, thank goodness!

I'm sure it was all your sympathetic comments that did it

(((((((you guys))))))))

Eve

Post by **bio** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:39 pm

Eve wrote:I'm up and moving, and it wasn't that bad this morning, thank goodness!

YAY!!!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:04 pm

Rocketdork wrote:Now we know the story of how entomologists are created!

Yep, something inside me snapped after one too many bugs hit my windshield - the flashbacks were terrible!

I had to do something.

I figured if they gotta die anyways, well, freezing is more humane an' there's less guts an' stuffs to look at!