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Title: A superb nose dive
Post by: Bionic on July 04, 2012, 09:16:50 am
Yesterday morning I tripped over in the stable yard.
It all seemed to happen in slow motion. It was pouring with rain (when isn't it) and I caught my toe on a low step. My feet seemed to be paddling in mid air trying to find my footing. I put my hands out to save my face but knowing that I could well break a wrist. I went down hard with both hands and my right knee hitting the concrete.
I was face down but managed to flip myself over and when OH arrived I was lying in a puddle looking like a turned turtle. My heart was racing 19 to the dozen but some how I don't seem to have done any damage. Not even a bruise to show for it this morning.
 
Someone was watching over me  :)
 
Sally
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: omnipeasant on July 04, 2012, 09:31:59 am
What a fright though :o As you say, while everything is in slow motion a milluon horrors flash through your mind. Glad you are okay, but you do know the stiffness usually sets in bu the second day :bouquet:
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: Bionic on July 04, 2012, 09:59:42 am
Thanks for that kind reminder omnipeasant  ;D
Sally
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: jaykay on July 04, 2012, 10:41:30 am
Glad you are ok  :-*
I strongly recommend ibuprofen washed down with plenty of your choice of alcohol, for the delayed stiffness  :)
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: tizaala on July 04, 2012, 10:44:30 am
Isn't life fun, Glad you did'nt get hurt. just think of the cost of straightening out all your metalwork. :innocent:
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 04, 2012, 10:49:42 am
Isn't life fun, Glad you did'nt get hurt. just think of the cost of straightening out all your metalwork. :innocent:
Trust you, Doug!   :D

Glad you're okay, Sally  :-*
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: Fleecewife on July 04, 2012, 11:55:16 am
....and no-one was there with a camera  :innocent:
 
Sounds like a close shave Sally; I'm glad you're ok and didn't have to be carted off in a wheelbarrow like Tizaala, by handsome men in uniform  :o 8)
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: Fowgill Farm on July 04, 2012, 12:25:25 pm
Having had a similar incident involving a pig last year which left me on crutches for a month i'm relieved you're ok, at least you didn't go bum over tit in the pig poo!
Keep taking the tablets :-J
Mandy  :pig:
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 04, 2012, 12:59:27 pm
BH came off the quad bike on the road last year, same thing - used his arm to protect his head, knowing he was risking injury to the arm. 

Had sore weak arm and grumbled for months.  After lambing  ::), went to doctor, yes he'd fractured a small bone in his wrist and it was now too late to do anything about it.  ::)  So it's healed now but will never be as good as it was - or as it would have been if he'd had it seen to in the first place.  ::)

So, Sally - if there's stiffness that persists beyond a couple of days... get it looked at!  (:wagging finger: icon required.)

Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: Bionic on July 04, 2012, 01:19:48 pm
Will do mum  ;D
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 04, 2012, 01:26:13 pm
Will do mum  ;D
:D
Title: Re: A superb nose dive
Post by: Dans on July 04, 2012, 01:29:15 pm
Glad you managed to avoid any damage!

Dans