Maybe it’s the weakness in my hands and wrists or maybe it’s the general fatigue, but my local A&E department are getting a bit worried they are seeing me so often.
Since I was diagnosed in 2017 I have been in 5 times with burns, 2 times with sprains and 2 times with cracked ribs.
Currently I have two cracked ribs at the side, a very bruised back and my hand and wrist in bandages. It’s like a chain reaction of accidents. And all I was trying to do was change a lightbulb, haha.
I got my foot tangled in my own bedding changing my bedroom light, fell backwards off the bed and hit my ribs against the bookcase. I knocked my head on the chair and managed to get carpet burn on my palm as I tried to break my fall. A few days later, I bent down to get a dish out of the oven, forgetting my damaged ribs, winced in pain and burnt my hand on the oven. I pulled my hand back from the pain and dropped the dish on my foot.
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Flippin' 'eck, Jules13 - you have certainly been in the wars by the sounds of it, you poor thing! Hope you've now got an LED lightbulb in your bedroom so it won't need changing again for a very long time and, when it does, get someone else to do it! As for those times when I catch my hand/arm on a hot oven shelf (or for any other 'minor' burn/sunburn, etc. where the skin's not broken), I keep handy a small spray bottle with diluted lavender essential oil in it - I find it takes most/all of the pain out of the burn, after running it under a cold tap for a good few minutes if I can, to stop it blistering. Never tried it for a carpet burn though. I'm a proper clumsy cluck with my swollen, painful hands and sausage fingers. Get well soon and take care x
Oh goodness! That’s terrible. I discovered (fortunately not in the way you did) that standing on my bed to dust the light shade is not a good thing to do. The bed is definitely not a stable surface.
I agree with you though, I’m much more accident prone these day - I’m 70. I often burn myself on the oven racks as I put things in and out - I never ever used to do that, I feel as if my reactions aren’t so fast or I’m just a bit more stiff when bending I’ve got a few little ‘stripes’ on my hands and wrists where I’ve been burnt.
Have you thought of yoga or - my favourite exercise - Pilates to help your strength and balance? My Pilates teacher is a qualified physiotherapist and she does a lot to help with our balance so that we don’t have falls - I’m 70 and in a group of mostly older ladies, but she still said the same to younger members.
Hope you feel better soon - think twice before you do things that could cause problems.
That’s the thing. I do yoga and Pilates. Have a very strong core. It was getting tangled not my balance. The burns are just me daydreaming I think. Duh. X
Oh dear! Good that your core is strong. Maybe it’s being / feeling strong that makes us do silly things like standing on beds. Might also be that yubpve got good balance to do that sort of thing until you get tangled in the bedding. I was pretty surprised at how wobbly the mattress turned out to be. Doesn’t feel wobbly when I’m lying on it.
Hope you are feeling a bit better although ribs take a serious long time to recover.
oooh ouch ! Hope you feel better soon, might be best to keep away from any jobs for the time being just in case?!
I am much more accident prone these days and my husband is always going on at me to be more careful and that I am being clumsy. Just over a year ago, I had two nasty falls within 10 days of each other and ruptured two tendons in each of my shoulders. I am still suffering from very bad pain in one of my shoulders and arm from it and physio, steroid injections and a nerve block have not helped so I am now waiting to have a shoulder replacement. Last week, I tripped and fell over the lead from the vacuum cleaner. I saw the lead there and was sure that I lifted my leg up high enough to step over it, but I couldn't have done. I fell on one side and now have enormous bruises on my arm and legs from it. I get so that sometimes I am almost frightened to walk.
I remember that my mum used to fall a lot and she had osteoarthritis. She may also have had RA but she wasn't diagnosed as having it.
That was an accident waiting to happen, wasn't it? I was about to do something similar last year but a male visitor offered to reach for me. Men definitely have an advantage in that respect as they do not have to climb, due to the length of their arms. The moral of the story: next time, get someone with long arms to do the job.
I do hope your multiple injuries are becoming less painful. Also, that work demands are less. They definitely need to be now! Take more care of yourself. xx
I know what you mean. FYI I don't live on my own but I might as well; the man who reached above the bed had come to service our security system, so just a random man really. Thank goodness for random men. x
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