Glad you were not hurt or even worse, suction cupped to the bathroom floor!

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Originally posted by OldMick:
Life lesson: sit on the edge of bed when changing pants or stand near something you can hold if needed. You’d think I would know that by now.

There's always foregoing the pants altogether.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by OldMick:
Life lesson: sit on the edge of bed when changing pants or stand near something you can hold if needed. You’d think I would know that by now.

There's always foregoing the pants altogether.

No can do. Wife points and snickers.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

I’ve been thinking of putting grab bar in the shower…

Our house had them when we bought it. I thought about removing them as we really didn’t expect to need them. They’ve actually come in handy a half dozen times.

Any chance at all you use a water softener ?


I have to take my own bath mat when I stay over at the place where I dog sit.

I can't stand soft water.
Literally!

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A couple years ago I had a fall while I was doing a sales call at a house.

I stepped off a level to a sunken living room I didn’t see.

Took a step and the floor was not there.

I’m a big guy and I slammed the floor good.

Nothing broken but I pulled my calf bad.

Glad you are ok Para.

Glad you are alright!

As Sheldon told Penny, you need some rubber duck stickys on your tub floor.

Three weeks ago I was trying to catch a frisbee, tumbled down a steep 15 foot embankment
to a dry creekbed. The scabs are just about gone, still have some deep bruises.
For a couple weeks I felt like 82 instead of 62.

I was in a hotel in Seattle and it was time to pack and leave. I was in a hurry

Started to Step into the shower, "oh I forgot . . " turned around to quick and BOOOM down I go.

It was like slow motion on the way down. I knew it was going to be bad, 300lb man, nekked on the floor, broken. But somehow I came out with nothing other than a bruised hip.

Glad you are ok.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
My most recent close call was with a running mower at my feet, as I slid down the ditchside behind it.

Points for style

Since I turned 50, I have fallen more than I have in my entire life. Stairs, ice, bathtub etc.

Like a few others here that are in their 70's, I took a hell of a fall a few months ago. My nine year old grandaughter was here with me, just the two of us. Playing catch out on the court yard I turned to grab a ball and tripped over the one foot concrete border which surrounds it. My leg caught the top and I crashed down hard on the crushed rock behind it. I could hardly move with the pain. My grandaughter ran up to me scared stiff and trying to help me up but I told her I was OK but needed to just stay here for a bit.

She was having none of that and ran into the house and called her mom (my daughter) at work and told her that grandpa was hurt and can't get up. She ran back outside and told me that her mom was coming. Oh shit, I said, and pulled myself up and limped into the house and caught my daughter just as she was getting in her car. Told her I was fine but the kid just got really scared. I still am getting scolded over that to this day.

Getting old really sucks.

I’m thinking that you’re going to be feeling this Wednesday, it typically takes that long for me to have something like that catch up with me.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Coincidently I fell in the bathroom a few days ago. Unlike you Para I had on my undies and a bathrobe. Nothing broken, just a sore ass and elbow. In my case it's not the fall but the getting back up that's the issue. Thank God we have a boarder that's 30 years younger and strong as an ox to help with that dilemma. At 75 I realize that it's only going to get worse.

Jim

“In my case it's not the fall but the getting back up that's the issue.”

This is similar to what my father said to one of the nurses that came by to say hello when I was having dinner with him at the assisted living center several years ago.

She had come to his room when he called for help after a fall. She said something like “We’re going to have to do something about these falls you’ve been having lately”.

He responded as only a crusty old World War 2 Navy veteran could. “Falling isn’t the problem. Getting up is the GOD DAMN PROBLEM!!”

There's something about falling that is just humiliating to be. That, and bumping my head. I freaking hate that. Glad you didn't hurt yourself.

If no one saw you fall, it never happened. And that's all that matters.

If s not the fall that hurts, but the sudden stop at the bottom. Don’t ask how I know…

Glad that you are okay Para.

I recently tripped over a new growth of some vine that keeps trying to get started in our shrubbery and mulch. I kept trying to regain my balance but finally did a nice tuck and roll into the grass. Didn’t even have a sore spot, but I am not 75 or so as some of the posters above have stated. I immediately got up and looked toward the road to see if there were any witnesses to my stretched out stumble. It would have been a hilarious video.

Glad for all who have taken a tumble without serious injury. For any that were injured, I hope that your recovery went well.