Author Topic: A superb nose dive  (Read 3416 times)

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
A superb nose dive
« 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
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

omnipeasant

  • Joined May 2012
  • Llangurig , Mid Wales
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #1 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:

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 09:59:42 am »
Thanks for that kind reminder omnipeasant  ;D
Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #3 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  :)

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #4 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:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #5 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  :-*
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #6 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)
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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #7 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:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #8 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.)

Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2012, 01:19:48 pm »
Will do mum  ;D
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2012, 01:26:13 pm »
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Dans

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • Spalding
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Re: A superb nose dive
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2012, 01:29:15 pm »
Glad you managed to avoid any damage!

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