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**fernykins** · 12-18-2007, 09:54 PM

feel to good...... I decided(as if I had a choice) to take a fall down the steps........ I landed on my knees and right wrist. I hurt my rt ankle I broke last year, my rt hip and now I am starting to feel it in my shoulder. Of course I was home by myself. It took me 15 minutes to get back up. All I wanted to do is cry. I hurt so bad. I know by tomorrow I will not be able to move very well. I told my #3 son and the first of the year he'll build me a ramp. My #2 so has been doing everything that I usally been doing. I don't think I broke anything...... On a better note son#4 will be home from Maryland about midnight.
Fern

**sdrjeolsen** · 12-18-2007, 10:22 PM

I'm sorry you fell. Glad you didn't break anything. Can you take a long hot bath and soak in some epsom salts?

**mikandmari** · 12-18-2007, 11:14 PM

Ouch! You poor thing. You need a warm blanket and some soup, and maybe some Bengay! Hope tomorrow isn't too rough... take it easy...

**Jamauk** · 12-19-2007, 02:13 AM

Be careful and take care of your self! A nice long bath sounds in order!

**Its_Donna** · 12-19-2007, 05:09 AM

I'm glad that you're ok. Take it easy and rest.

**lwlynch** · 12-19-2007, 06:58 AM

I am so glad you are okay.. I am with everyone else take a nice hot bath. Maybe take some advil before you get out of bed in the morning.. hope you feel better

**Nantahala** · 12-19-2007, 07:20 AM

Are you sure you didn't fracture anything? You may want to get an x-ray. I hope you feel better.

**justpeachy92** · 12-19-2007, 07:50 AM

I feel your pain. I once managed to trip and fall in a completely empty room, wasn't even carrying anything. As a result I had what the Dr. at the ER called a Jones fracture in my foot, not a break in the bone but somehow I shifted the little bones in my foot out of place. Hope you are feeling better today and enjoy your visit with your son.

**MarshHen** · 12-19-2007, 08:11 AM

I'm so sorry to hear about your fall, and I know from experiance just how sore you are right now. Please, if you don't start to feel better within a day or two, go see your doctor cause you may have a fracture. I'm so glad you have your sons there to help you. If you are too sore to soak in the tub, maybe do what I do and use a heating pad and take something for the pain.

Big

(Ouch!..Sorry!...gentle ones, LOL) and prayers that you feel better soon.

**jamie79** · 12-19-2007, 08:17 AM

I am sorry you fell. I hope they can get the ramp built quickly

**FrugalMomof3** · 12-19-2007, 08:25 AM

I am sorry about your fall but I sure hope you feel better, thank God for your son, sure hope he builds you that ramp fast

**Cricket1** · 12-19-2007, 08:30 AM

Ouch! Sorry about the fall--hope you're moving freely in no time.

**northernmom2boys** · 12-19-2007, 08:57 AM

feel better soon

**Edna_E** · 12-19-2007, 12:25 PM

I'm so sorry. I'm prone to that kind of thing myself. I even managed to get blown off the porch an catch my wrist between the door handle and the door frame one time. I was dangling from it hanging off the side of the porch for about half-an-hour before I managed to swing one foot up on the porch and then lever myself back up. I could just imagine my poor son going through the rest of his life with THAT story attached - "Yeah, his mom was kind of out there! You know she hug herself by her wrist until dead - most people slit their wrists or hang by the neck, but she always did thing a little different than everyone else..."

Regarding pains that follow, try a cup of epson salts in your bath, and if you can find a little jar of Arnica cream, rub it on the sore spots (Dollar General carries it in some stores, and some Walgreens do).

Hope you feel better soon.