Well I checked out my concrete floors for cracks Sat. Floors good and thank God I am to. One second I'm going for a bottle of Gatorade and the next im falling into the freezer with my shoulder and the floor with my knee. The freezer actually saved me from falling face first on the floor. Except for a skinned knee and a sore shoulder I came out. Pretty good. Then started physical therapy today. Of course it had to begin on the worst day I've had in awhile . I've had a lot of pt over the years but this was my first since ms. Almost more than my tired old body and legs could stand. But with God's help I made it. Got a good long lecture about using my cane all the time before I fall and break something. This time I think I'll listen. Anybody with mobility problems take heed to the warning. Use your walker or cane before you break some bones.
Be safe and be blessed.
Donnie
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If I ever decide to move again I hope somebody puts me in a padded room. Lol. Having my own padded room would be a good idea. Lol. As Crazy as ms makes us all I times I could put it to good use.
Crazy part is that I've been working cutting briars vines trimming shrubs and pulling weeds on all kinds of different terrains and surfaces with dozens of near falls and somehow I didn't fall. Then I'm walking on a flat hard surface and down I go. I couldn't fall on a soft surface. Lol. Started pt today for gait and balance but wasn't smart enough to use my cane til I lost my balance. But I will from now own. Might take me a little longer than it should but I do learn from my mistakes. Hope your feeling better this week.
if I have the choice of pavement or grass I choose grass, I'm more likely to trip on the pavement than on the grass. I think our brain knows the grass is uneven and compensates without thinking about it...but watch out on a smooth floor or pavement.
Appreciate the reminder to use a cane or walker at all times to be safe--we all need a reminder now and then because its easier to cut corners. Falls can be devastating.
I have to tell you my freezer is in the cellar I haven't seen it in years if I could make it down the stairs I would never be able to get back up the stairs. No joke my sons say to me mom maybe it's a good think because it is such a mess down their. A brother what has my husband done to the place??
My wife is a freezer fanatic I think. Not the Friday before Easter our freezer With 15 years of accumulated treats stopped working. It was old and tired. I had just got out of the hospital with my initial exasperation so I couldn't move out the old one. So we bought a small one for our meat then lost everything else. Then After Easter she bought a big upright and filled it up to the brim. So we had 2 freezers. Then we moved in July with those 2 and inherited another one from the previous owner. So now we have 3. Now we are freezer poor. Or rich im not surevtill power bill comes in. Haha
I fell last week trying to get off the couch. I tried to stand in a hurry. I know better but my legs buckled and my head and shoulders landed on the couch and my legs were folded under me. My husband tried to get me up but I just slide into the floor with my foot twisted under me. I finally got it straightened out. I had to sit there awhile before I could get on my knees. Then my husband had me put my arms around his neck and he grabbed me under the arms to lift me. He got me up and I finally got my legs under me. I can't get off the floor by myself so I was glad he was there. Just another reminder not to do things to fast.
It's scarlet when you can't get up. Before we moved I fell in my basement and landed on some paint cans and couldn't get out. I was hung between some old clothes and the cans and couldn't get my feet on the floor. Nobody even knew I was downstairs so it took me forever rolling around to get rolled around then crawl to my work bench so I had something to pull up with. It was a bad experience to say the least. Glad your husband was with you and you're ok. Blessings.
Just to let you know, the concrete in my garage is Ok too... Seems I'm hell bent on inspecting it regularly! Once the MonSter found my spine, all the falls became pretty regular happenings... My Rollator is my BESTIE!!! XO Cj
So I'm not alone huh. That concrete is hard isn't it. I think we Might need to pad the floor like I suggested earlier. Or just pad the garage like Jennie62 suggested. Lol.
Thanks for the laugh. Glad to hear you're OK. I've done a few close inspections of my bedroom and bathroom floors. Last time in my daughters bathroom. Later that same day she asked everyone what happened to her pedestal sink in the bathroom as it had been moved. I had to confess it had to be me falling against it when I fainted. Fortunately I fell after I'd finished relieving myself. BTW, her bathroom floor looked to be in pretty good shape and was clean. 😊
Mine was not on concrete, it was bark and DG (decomposed granite) in the walkway. I have the right arm is scrapes to prove it. I had my little walker but the left leg said "Done" and to the right I went!!. After years of this, I'm pretty good at falling with minimum damage, never broken a bone, but the body looks pretty scraped up. I think at this age, it would any way.
Avoid those little walkers, the metal ones with the tiny 3 inch front wheels. I don't know why anyone uses them or why they are sold. I put it outside because I won't use it inside. Mistake. Recycle would be better use.
I have to let you know I use the walker they call it a rollator the wheels are 3-4" wide and about 1"thick they have less opportunity to fall over but I have fallen due to me not paying attention to what I am doing. It also has a seat which is a saving grace. Be safe.
Haha. Sounds like you've gotten pretty good at falling. They always say practice makes you perfect. But I think I want to find something else to practice. Haha. Be safe. Whatever the surface it hurts. God bless.
No i don't like falling when I go down I can't get up by my self back in 2014 I fell 3 times in one week ended up in the hospital 2 of those times one I thought I broke my foot no I didn't but the last time I hit my head and cracked it open I ended up getting two staples not good when I had them taken out she ended up pulling a hair out by the root I think that was really bad. So I try with all my might not to fall.
I do have to say I have a neighbor who pays for the alarm button around your neck. I have not had to use it. Thank goodness for good neighbors
So true good neighbors are good to have. I thought I broke my hand when I fell the other day but luckily it got better. So sorry for your falls. Be safe and God bless.
So, I take it falling is a “thing” with MS? I haven’t fallen for any reason in decades but I’m determined to catch up on that this year. So I’ve had 4 falls. Two no issues, one nailed some muscles in my back and the big one was falling off a ladder 15-20” high, bouncing off the deck railing hitting something with my head. I woke up like over turned turtle. No one around and left my phone inside. That got me a couple broken ribs, a rotator cuff torn in two places. The ladder is still where it was and will e until I get some help getting it back on the wall in the garage where it willlive out the rest of its life. I still don’t know how I fell, just waking up in a fair degree of pain and a baseball sized knot on my head.
Add one more thing to the growing list of things I’ll never do again!
It’s a club I don’t encourage you to join guitarguy .😅😂. But I’m afraid many of us have learned Is a part of this disease. By reading the old post you’ll see that many of us have joined the club.
I fell of a ladder last fall but was only about 5 ft up but again on my concrete floor.😂😅. Luckily all I had was a dislocated fracture on my hand.
But if you keep it up you can join with me and jimeka and several others and have earned their membership the hard way.😜😜😂😇.
I stumble here and there. I haven't fell hard yet but I was taught to fall gracefully at physical therapy. Lol 😂 My Neuro sent me to that when I first came out of the hospital. But I imagine it's hard to fall gracefully if the fall takes you off guard. 👀❤🌷
RoseySawyer . Take it from a voice of experience there really is no falling gracefully. I’m sure I’ve had some more graceful than others but gracefully no way.😂😅🤣🤪
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