Officially a geezer now .....

sdandrea1

The rite of passage. While we were staying at daughters house last week (sitting the grands while they traveled), I was coming down the stairs (in the dark) at 0615 to take Jesse to school. I made the turn at the landing and missed the entire last 4 steps. I rolled to avoid breaking any bones in my arms/hands, and landed on my left side ribs on the foyer hardwood floor. Caught my left shin on a step on the way down. Knocked the wind out of me so I couldn't speak to Jesse. He's got his phone out ready to 911 me. I waved him off, and he helped me up. Caught my breath and started poking around to see if any ribs were busted. Nothing obvious so I just rested a few minutes to see if anything else presented. This is day 4 after. Got a 12" strip of skin gone from my left shin and some sore ribs that only hurt during certain movements. Gets better daily. Gravity is a BITCH!!!!

johnnydoom

sdandrea1 Glad it wasn't serious. I've done something similar, although not that many steps as I'm almost a foot shorter than you, and end up stumbling forward without falling, but it's only a matter of time.

KCee

sdandrea1 The fact that you were able to roll with it and didn't break anything means geezerhood is not here yet! Glad you are only bruised

Bravopilot

sdandrea1 Not good, I am a single floor old man myself now. Tough staying in places not your own in the dark Glad all is well now. Hope you have a good laugh with the grands a year from now.

Par4QC

sdandrea1 that only hurt during certain movements

As far as any medical advice concerning this......do not make those movements, and you will feel better soon.

sdandrea1 The rite of passage.

Could have been a lot more true than you think. Lost my boss in this manner.
Be damn careful on any stairs Steve. I could probably still run up and down all mine(on a bet), but use the hand rail every step, every time. And never hurry.
And never in the dark.😉

azgreg

Glad you're OK Steve.

professor

Laundry day and the stairs keep me sober.
Time for more Grape Nuts (flakes if you don't want to crack teeth too).

azgreg

On a side note, we're currently living in a two story house and that's not ever happening again.

Walterjn

Next time, handrails are your friends! As is turning on he lights!!

SMT

sdandrea1

Spuzz

SMT
He doesn't need any trans advice, just geezer advice.

mulegolf

sdandrea1
I had a similar experience on the stairs recently. Mine was because my wife "booby trapped" me. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 😉 I don't know about the rest of you but my wife "puts things away" by placing them in a manner that I
would never think of and if I did, I couldn't do. We recently had our 50th anniversary and we brought home several gifts. One of them included a bunch of small (about 1/2") Styrofoam balls wrapped in gold foil. I called them marbles. She placed a bowl containing them on the steps but it was too large to set on one step so she let it hang over a step and braced it up by putting a couple of towel like items on the step below it which the bowl of marbles balanced on the edge of. I needed to get something at the top of the stairs and happened to bump it just a little. The bowl and marbles proceeded to tumble down the steps. I decided to back down the steps just one step so I could remove the marbles form where I was standing. Wrong thing to do. I was the cartoon character who stepped on marbles and his feet went out from under him. I fell face down on the steps catching my fall on one knee which struck a sharp item that was on the step. Yes, it not only hurt when my knee hit the step but quite severely cut me just below the knee. I made a trip out to the hospital emergency room and got put back together but it necessitated me going to wound care for three weeks. I feel for you brother.

LBlack14

Strong ass, diet cokes!! Geezerdom hasn't anything to do with falling down steps, believe me. Just don't ax how I know. 🙄

propman

Yesterday afternoon in the parking lot of my physical therapist, I reached into my car and banged my head above the driver seat. Banged it pretty hard. I then proceeded to my pt appt. At tail end of appt, the phy therapist noticed a stain on my baseball hat. Turned out had a pretty good gash on top of my head.
Nothing serious but a friendly reminder of the niceties of being old.

SMT

Spuzz They, Them

johnnydoom

Spuzz He doesn't need any trans advice, just geezer advice.

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Eguller

sdandrea1 The rite of passage.

Step one of many to come.. 🙄😉

azgreg

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Giphy - Fall Lol GIF by theCHIVE

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Spuzz

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