LOL….no falls. Hmm, I’ll have to put that on my To Don’t list. Unfortunately, I will always fall. FORTUNATELY, I almost never get injured….I fall well. I did get a quick chiro adjustment today. I heard my neck crackle last nite as it was jarred sideways when elbow landed. But after taking one Nuprin, I slept thru nite and woke with no pain anywhere.
Due to my disease, I have balance issues. There is a very odd deal when I catch my heel on something: Immediately all my joints go loose from my hips down. I flow to the floor/ground. “Flow” is much safer than “tree fall” type of falling. But it’s also a very helpless feeling. There is no stopping it. Any contact to the back of my heel will trigger it. I can ALMOST ALWAYS reflexively direct where I flow….and avoid contacting anything else besides floor/ground. That increases safety. Aging does often mean worse results in a fall. I’m so thankful for training my reflexes in younger years, how to fall correctly. Still….I do tend to get going and just barrel into my projects….
Would you believe I even tipped a wheelchair over backwards? Years ago…I was hurrying and kicking backwards is faster for me than using weak arms. I was ok….but crawling out of a tipped-backwards wheelchair is extremely awkward…..no dignity left! Uff tah! My new wheelchair has the anti-tipping devices…LOL
Well on the subject of falling, today was all about ice! It was trying to invade my domain. I spent two sessions with shovel. Scraping melting ice away from pathways. Pouring dirt/grit onto melt water to make safe “islands” to walk on when that location has no way to drain the water away. I made mini canals in places that will be awkward to avoid stepping on the small crevasses…..but the only way downhill.
I ran into blockades of frozen dirt or thick ice….and could not make the water flow downhill. In one case I dumped fluffy snow at the blockade to soak up the melting water. It’s quite absorbent and will even draw the water into it. But like any absorbent ‘diaper’, it will have to be ‘changed’ or it will turn to a lump of ice…and/or leak it’s melting water all over again.
As you can tell, I do take slipping on ice very seriously. Even with my reflexes, ice falls are so very fast, I can’t be sure I’d fall right. And DH has repeatedly proven NOT very good with ice falls. So I spend time/energy to prevent injury in pathways we use all the time. It’s taking up most of my energy but an injury would be worse. Mountain living means water runs down….every sunny day. And each nite it freezes again. Mountain living also means we and our animals are perched on those hillsides in tooo many locations to be convenient in this season.
OldMtWoman G’nite all