Dang! Sorry to hear that this happened to you.

Prayer, and good thoughts for a complete, and speedy recovery, you lucky SOB.

Best wishes on a full recovery. Injuries involving nerves take a lot of time to recover. Take it easy and be patient.

My neighbor was painting the door at the top of his basement steps. He fell down the steps and was laying there with a head injury for two to three hours before his wife, who was on the second floor, found him. He died at the hospital.

I hope you heal quickly.

Glad that wasn't the disaster it could have been.

Get well.

Holy cow, what a story. Glad you're on the mend.

This type of accident is exactly why my wife and I each wear a Series 4 Apple Watch. It has fall detection. We are both 70 and have a fear of falling when we are alone.

A former co-worker, about 45, fell last year on an icy sidewalk outside a convenience store. He hit his head and was out for long enough that he nearly lost his fingers to frostbite. A Series 4 would have called 911 for him.

Get well,
Mike

Wow Bytes glad the good lord was looking out for you..

You're really lucky your hauling yourself up those stairs and back down again didn't paralyze you.

Usually with spinal/neck injuries you aren't supposed to move or be moved except by experts. I watched a Good Samaritan get SCREAMED AT in his face by a paramedic after a car crash I witnessed while at a gas station. The Samaritan took it upon himself to drag the one injured person out of his car onto the curb.

whoa. that's pretty scary.good you are still walking and on the mend

Wow, you lucked out big time. Hope your recuperation is short and your recovery is complete!

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Wow Bytes glad the good lord was looking out for you..

Mustang, somebody was looking out for me or I just won a lottery. Probably both. Either way this was life changing for me. I hope you're doing well my friend.

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Originally posted by Bytes:

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Wow Bytes glad the good lord was looking out for you..

Mustang, somebody was looking out for me or I just won a lottery. Probably both. Either way this was life changing for me. I hope you're doing well my friend.

Thanks Bytes for all your help and for asking.
Guess it would be a little of both on your part. Can't help but think that for all the good and nice things you have done for me and others that you were getting some help in return.
Its been a very long road with all this mess but I just got home from having the drain pulled.
Still have some concerns about it being pulled with it still putting out 9-10ml a day but everyone in the know says its time for it to come out.
Was also a little alarmed to find out that I have a second and third psudosist of which one was 4cm as of a few weeks ago and my GI doc had never mentioned it and wasn't concerned about it. It just needs to be watched but from the time (2 months) of the drain being put in it had grown from 1cm to 4cm.
Anyway it feels good to finally be rid of all this mess hanging off my body...

did the head ram thing about 9 months ago when I missed the last step in the basement with a giant basket of laundry, block walls are Hard!.
did not black out but I was moving slow getting up.
get well soon

Man, that could have been a lot worse. Glad you're healing.
I've taken that face first ride down the hardwood stairs.... my foot was in a cast and I stepped wrongly. some part of me hit and actually snapped the wooden handrail, and I put good sized dents in the wallboard with both my heel and my head.

Luckily no part of me was broken... but I was bruised and sore for the best part of a week.

Stairs are dangerous, man. I've since installed LED strip lighting along the stair baseboards with a motion detector so they light up nicely at foot level.

And here I was coming to complain about my leg boo-boo.

Heal up, friend.

Glad it was not your time. Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery!

I’ll say you were lucky, your injuries are way high up in the C-spine. My neck is a mess from being bucked off my horse, hard, 35 years ago. I can live with it, but arthritis and disc degeneration is a literal pain in the neck. Still, you made it, you can feel your legs, and you can hold your wife and kids. Life is good

So happy you’re here typing this to us bytes. Heal quickly brother.

Damn man, heal up quick!

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Still, you made it, you can feel your legs, and you can hold your wife and kids. Life is good

That is the first thing I think when I wake up in the morning laying next to my wife. Life is very good.

Don't know how I missed this thread before.... Glad you are still with us, brother! How's your hyoid bone?