Are you accident-prone?

I certainly am! :lol3: My father's whole side of the family jokes about it all the time. My father used to be constantly doing something to hurt himself and boy, I can also manage at times. I did it again yesterday by missing a step when walking down the garage steps. I'm hurting, but at least no ER trip this time.



Anyone else accident prone?

Not me!  I've been lucky and had almost no injuries or accidents in my life.  But as "luck" would have it, my first bad fall three weeks ago resulted in a shattered humerus bone.  I'm in a sling for another three weeks.   

betsygee said:

 
Not me!  I've been lucky and had almost no injuries or accidents in my life.  But as "luck" would have it, my first bad fall three weeks ago resulted in a shattered humerus bone.  I'm in a sling for another three weeks.   

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oh no.....@betsygee    did you fall on your elbow?  sending vibes for speedy recovery, then...

I am not accident prone, but have had some spills.....10 years ago, dislocated elbow, from slipping on stairs while moving furniture.  All is good in the elbow, back to usual.  Have tripped and twisted ankle, but not recently,  got stung by wasp.....hmm....maybe I am accident prone......lol               

I am a clutz.  I am really bad with walking on ice and packed snow so I was not amused this past winter.  I took one nasty fall this winter and it took 2 or 3 weeks for my arm to quit hurting.  I didn't go to the doctor but I certainly was beginning to think that was a mistake before it started feeling better.

cat nap said:

 
oh no.....@betsygee    did you fall on your elbow?  sending vibes for speedy recovery, then...

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On my upper arm--where the bone goes into the shoulder.  

cat nap said:

 
.hmm....maybe I am accident prone......lol   

   

     

 

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lol  

i'm 56 and never broken any bones but i am a klutz. in November i was on my way to feed my 'parking lot strays' and while going down the sidewalk i was looking behind me to make sure that Spooky wasn't following me. he's a neighborhood stray, all black, that i'm feeding and i had had him fixed a few weeks prior to this in october. since then he decided my front yard is his new home and he always tries to follow me whenever i go somewhere. well, i should've known better than to walk and look behind me at the same time because my foot caught on the uneven sidewalk and i fell and hit the ground with my right knee. i ended up in ER a few weeks later with bursitis and had to have fluid removed from it..

i really can't have anymore cats because we have 10 already. they do go out in the backyard. Spooky decided to stay in the backyard now so they're slowly getting used to another. everyone in the neighborhood knows me because there's always one cat or another following me.

I've never hurt myself badly or broken anything (well, maybe a toe. . .didn't go to the doctor), but I am a klutz and routinely walk into things or bump myself somewhere. I almost always have a bruise on my upper arm from bumping into something.

I'm very clumsy. I keep having to buy new drinking glasses.
S few years ago I fell and tore my knee. I was off work for 3 months. A work
accident. I then wore a brace for some time.
A few months ago I fell and broke s bone in my wrist. Having physiotherapy and wearing a support bandage.
Last Wednesday I fell. Twice. I tripped and went flat. Lucky I didn't crack the pavement. Nobody was around so I started to slowly heave myself up lost my balance and went flying backwards whereupon I just sat where I was and started to cry. 2 women came to my rescue. I have bruises all over the place.
I'm going out tomorrow and will have to wear my dkiopefdt.i can't get a shoe on my left foot

Slippers. Sorry

I don't know if I'm accident prone... I mean, I don't get into accidents all the time, but when I do it's... well, disastrous.

I lost an eye when I was 5 because I was playing a handheld game and got so excited that I was flailing and my fingernail met my eye.

When I first got my driver's license, I was driving around a college campus, and I was staring at two girls walking down the sidewalk that I rear-ended into a van. 

In college, I walked right into a lamp post and fell down because I was trying to read a signboard across the street but didn't stop walking.

Golly @Fhi09 I didn't know you'd lost an eye..

I'm not clumsy at all, I don't think...  The worst accident I've had was a sliver of wood embedded in my leg, but that was just stupidity while mowing..

Yes! And I have this horrible reaction where if I fall, I automatically bust out laughing, even if I'm really hurt and it isn't funny. It's just some weird, automatic reaction I have, and I can't help it lol.

StarryEyedTiGeR said:

Yes! And I have this horrible reaction where if I fall, I automatically bust out laughing, even if I'm really hurt and it isn't funny. It's just some weird, automatic reaction I have, and I can't help it lol.

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That's me too!  When it counts, I'm not really clumsy (starting IV's, moving a patient).  But just walking around I'll bang my arm or hip on something often...and crack up. 

Karen, I hope you're feeling better now. Betsy and Judy, too. Gentle   for all.

Cody, I didn't know about your eye. How is your vision now? I know, I know, that's a silly question, but wouldn't that affect your peripheral vision while driving? You can drive OK (as long as you're not eyeing girls on campus, that is )? 

I'm so much a klutz. A few years ago, I was up on the ladder, trying to get the Christmas tree bags off the hooks in the basement. Fell off the ladder, slid across the basement floor and slammed into the washer. My hip hurt for a month. I was alone that night, too, so had I been seriously hurt, I would have been there for a while, until Rick came home.

I got out of bed one night to use the bathroom. Walked right into a pair of Mary Jane-type shoes that were next to the bed (and I know not to put shoes there for that very reason). Got my toes caught in one of the shoes and my foot and toes twisted. Fell back onto the bed backward. That was ugly and my foot hurt for weeks afterward. 

Walking down the basement steps with a basketful of laundry and walked right out of my old, floppy sandals. Fell down the steps and crashed into the basement door. Didn't drop the laundry though. And there I sat between the step and the door with the basket in my arms.

The only bone that I've broken (*knock on wood*) is the little toe on my left foot. I was at a convenience store for gas and cigarettes years and years ago. I was wearing a pair of sandals and walked out of them (you know they might have been the same darn pair of Dr. Sholls!!). Smacked my foot against the concrete parking strip and the toe broke....it was out at a lovely angle from my foot. I had driven a manual tranny at the time and had to clutch with that foot, too. Got home and Rick ran me down to the ER. They just grabbed hold and yanked it back into place and taped it to the adjoining toe.

I've walked into stuff at work, simply because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I've walked into people, too, for the same reason. I seem to be lost in my own little world sometimes. 

I could go on and on (and seriously, that's no exaggeration), but you get the idea. My legs are pretty much the problem area of my body. (If you believe in astrology, most Aquarians have leg problems....that's kind of their Achilles heel....pun intended.  )

Winchester said:

Cody, I didn't know about your eye. How is your vision now? I know, I know, that's a silly question, but wouldn't that affect your peripheral vision while driving? 

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I'm blind in one eye, but I've had 20+ years to adapt. The one thing I'd really, really, REALLY like to know is how does it look like seeing with two eyes. It's like trying to describe color to someone who only sees in black and white. 

I've a much narrower field when driving, yep. I have problems with depth and distance perception -- if you close one eye, have someone hold out a finger pointing upwards, and try to use the other finger to meet that finger, you'll see what I mean. My parents trained me to drive for 8 months before they allowed me to go to driving school to get a license. At first we used a parking lot about 20 miles away. After a couple of months, there was this newly developed residential area near our place. The roads were usable, but the houses were incomplete and there were no cars around save the occasional truck and cement mixer, so that was perfect for further training.

My dad would bring me to bars with pool tables (those were 18+ unless you had an adult with you) and he'd teach me to play those -- which really sucked when I could only hit the ball with the cue once every five or so tries lol.

Badminton was another thing we played that let me build on my distance-depth perception. 

I'm SO happy to hear that others are accident prone too! My accidents are always my own stupid fault, I was carrying a coiled up 100 foot hose in front of me, couldn't see, and tripped over another hose and I fell 3 foot off of a cement retaining wall onto a pipe protruding from the ground for a well. It hit my upper, outer thigh and I thought I really broke it, it hurt soooo bad! I turned black and blue from my knee up my buttocks and it was so impressive I took a picture! The only thing that scared me is I had a contusion (lump) there for almost a year, it finally went away. Then I was carrying a box, couldn't see. (again?) and tripped over some wood really hurting my head and my knees. Then I went into a pitch black bathroom in the basement, forgot I had pulled some crates out to sort through from the closet down there and just about broke my neck, I had a contusion the size of an orange on my shin. I seem to fall down a lot in my old age, but it's through stupidity, not a health problem!

Well let me say that in the past 5 or 6 years the big boobs (that go with big everything else) have saved my TEETH & CHIN ..four times ! Does tend to result in a bashed forehead though :O
Each time I tripped while my arms were busy with purse etc. & and I face planted... into concrete patio, gravel driveway (twice) & most recently in backyard over a willow root
... that time I did try to catch myself with my arms, they said are u kidding me? and gave right out!
Guess for me I'm not acquiring wisdom with age, KLUTZYNESS !!!

I was a clumsy kid and my mother used to tease me about it a lot. I'd trip easily, on cracks in the sidewalk, or at home if something was out of place on the floor, like a shoe in the middle of the mudroom. I just didn't see those things, they weren't supposed to be there so I would assume they weren't and keep walking.

Anyway, one time my mother set me up by putting this low cardboard box on the floor of the doorway between the kitchen and dining room. It was brown like the floor. I came home from school, carrying my books and walked through the house to my room, but tripped (predictably) on the box. My mother laughed and laughed and labeled me "unaware" for the rest of my life... It became a family "joke."

Fast forward to my 30's when I was having a thorough eye exam, turns out my peripheral vision up and down is very bad. It's fine to the left and right, but my doctor said, "Oh my gosh, you really have to make a point to look down when you walk! Most people can see part of the ground ahead of them when they look straight ahead, but you have to actually move your head to see it." I had no idea! I was so happy there was an explanation for my clumsiness, it had nothing to do with being "unaware."   

Oh goodness, yes.  I am left-handed and cut corners too close.  The other day I walked into the wall beside the door at work.  I was aiming for the doorway.    I fell off the sidewalk at home and broke my ankle.  I was walking down the same sidewalk to pick strawberries, fell, and went rolling through the grass.  When I finally came to a stop, my pants were torn, my knee was bleeding, but somehow the strawberry bowl was still upright in my hand and unharmed.  Sometimes, inmates ask me questions as I am walking across the prison yard.  On occasion, I have turned to answer and almost fell.  (One day it was icy, but there isn't always ice.) Now when someone has a question I tell them to walk with me.  Plus, I spill things...thank goodness for Oxiclean...I could do a commercial.  

I'm happy no trip to the ER, Karen.  Feel better soon.  

@SwampWitch
Not a very 'funny' family joke.