Reminder to be careful out there...

[375supermag]

Hi...
Yesterday I went to the gun club with my son.
When we got home, I was helping unload our stuff and was carrying a four gun hard sided pistol case in one hand and a leather shooting back in the other with eight revolvers in it.
Walking through the garage, I tripped over the discharge chute on my lawn tractor and took a hard fall onto the concrete floor.
Fortunately, when I face planted my forehead hit the plastic hard sided pistol case and not the concrete.
Still, I have bumps and bruises on my left knee and shoulder, a twisted lower back and a bad strain in my arthritic neck along with a couple of scrapes on my left hand and wrist.

After my son helped me get back on my feet he insisted that the 67 year old antique set on a chair while he finished unloading the truck.
I didn't argue...

I woke up this morning with aches and pains pretty much from head to toe.
Living proof that old guys should not be bouncing off concrete floors.
So...be careful out there, guys.

[super6]

I gave all my ladders away.. @ 67 I cant take the fall anymore.

[osage]

It doesn't take much to get tipped over and banged up. Glad it wasn't worse.

[Polymath]

Yep, I slipped twice on the ice this winter. One was a complete summersault. Shopping cart emptied out and the oranges rolled away. Got a scar to remind me.

[dverna]

You had me worried for a bit...thought someone had passed...

Sorry to hear of your accident. Take some Naproxen for the pain. I find it is the best for me.

[jim 44-40]

I'm still learning how to manuver in my basement,to much junk around . Well my wife calls it junk it's treasure to me.

[MUSTANG]

Wife insists I drive the car to the Mail box instead of getting one of my many "Mini" walks in each day. She's afraid I will fall on the ice even with Ice Clampers on my boots.

[BJK]

375Supermag, yes, that could have ended much worse. Glad to hear that you came out of it with as little aftereffect as you got. Pain tells us that we're still alive.

Wife insists I drive the car to the Mail box instead of getting one of my many "Mini" walks in each day. She's afraid I will fall on the ice even with Ice Clampers on my boots.

That's what I do. There was a time when I was superman, but I've since learned that the superman thing was all in my head. One morning I went out to start the car to warm it up. When I went to bed it was above freezing, but during the night we had some rain and freezing temps. I hit the stairs without a care. My feet went out from under me and I was horizontal in the air. I tried to fall the best I could. I didn't want to land on my back and maybe break it. So I rotated in the air and came down with my lower right arm and wrist between the stair and my body. It was like a pepper grinder effect. I turned my bones into ground bones. I was in an erector set for quite some time. I had a nurse call me to suggest I not follow the PT that I would be given or I would lose most of the use of the arm. I took her advice and have most of the use of it, 95%. I found out that the PT they wanted me to do is recommended for someone in their 80s who doesn't need to use their arms very much. Phooey on that! I did my own PT. If what I was doing hurt I stopped doing it and came back to it in a few days. I did more and more each day. Anyway, superman? No. Now 25 years later it's even easier to see that I'm not superman. So yes, I drive the car to the mailbox even if I have cleats on my boots.

[centershot]

I can confirm that at 67 you don't bounce very well. Slipped on an icy sidewalk 3 weeks ago and broke a rib. Still can't lie down and sleep in bed......

[super6]

Wet grass and a wheelbarrow took out my ribs. Never again.

[Bmi48219]

Yep, I slipped twice on the ice this winter. One was a complete summersault. Got a scar to remind me.

An older brother slipped on a small patch of ice by the mailbox last week. Fractured his pelvic bone.
We left the snow & ice behind a long time ago. I’d rather face a hurricane every decade than deal with snow and ice four months a year.

[Froogal]

I gave all my ladders away.. @ 67 I cant take the fall anymore.

I hear you. Tried using my 36' extension ladder a couple of days ago. Needless to say, that project is still needing to be done, and the ladder is for sale.

[Handloader109]

It ain't just you old guys. (Yeah, I'm 63 and right behind and yah). I saw a post from an ex employee this morning on FB. She had 15 stitches above the left eye. Wouldn't talk about it, but I expect a stupid fall or something falling on her. She and her hubby are good, so no abuse.. just something she's ashamed of doing. Just be careful. I've been lucky, tripped over a big rock this fall and thought I'd broken my ankle, just sprained. Wife has tripped over our two terriers this past year and almost killed herself in doing so. Ribs fractured and elbow dinged up pretty good the last time.

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[pworley1]

Growing old ain't for the timid.

[CastingFool]

It's not the fall that hurts you. It's the sudden stop afterwards.

[Txcowboy52]

Glad you ok supermag! We all know it could have been much worse! I can totally relate, I’m a little younger than you, I lost my leg roughly 15 years ago from a iron horse accident, no fault of my own, and I deal every day with the pit falls of falling, the older I get the worse it is .

[lightman]

Glad you are mostly ok and not seriously injured. Yeah, us old guys don't land so good anymore!

[Buzz Krumhunger]

Whoever named these “the golden years” was full of bovine excrement.

[Rapier]

I have no idea when I stopped bouncing well, but now I do not bounce well at all and I do not jump up either.
When I decided to replace our in place analog camera system with a new 4K digital system, I got a contractor, he got old too, so I told him we better get us a pretzel-acrobat, to go through the trusses, great choice, that.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Welding leads got me.