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I fell down my stairs the other day...

Posted: Oct 17, 2009

I'm fine now, just had a very sore neck for a couple of days and some bruises. I got a head CT and a c-spine x-ray, both were negative.

I was headed upstairs to my office, near the top, when my knee just gave out on me. When I realized I was going to fall, I rolled up into a ball and shifted left toward the nearer wall. Then i ended up doing a series of backward rolls or tumbles down the steps. I think this is what saved me from breaking my neck or back, which is what I thought would happen if i just fell straight backward down 12 steps.

What amazed me is how everything went into "slo-mo" and I was actually able to think about what was happening and develop a plan. I still had time to flash on Joan Crawford in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" lol.

Just wondering if others have had similar experiences?

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Glad you are okay..sm - Bookworm

[ In Reply To ..]
and did not suffer more than you did. What a horrible feeling as one goes down. While I never fell down stairs, I have fallen from other things, being the klutz that I am, and, yeah, things seemed to go in slow-mo, but I never had time to flash on a movie. : )

FYI, everyone, heed the posted warning not to push a very large, wheeled trash bin without the lid closed. At least I did not end up IN the bin as my brother did. LOL.

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