[nagdu] Fell down

[Craig Heaps]

I'm sorry to hear about your fall. I don't know if it's any 
encouragement, but I'm partially sighted and I fell last May.

Chase and I were striding along when I caught my toe on a place where 
the tree roots had elevated a section of sidewalk at the expansion 
joint. Bloody nose. Two black eyes. Eight stitches above the eye brow 
where my sunglasses cut in. Nothing broken.  Some nice people saw me 
fall, stopped their car and called 911 for me.  Chase just watched me 
sitting on the ground. He seemed to be waiting for the next command.  He 
did enjoy the ambulance ride though.

I'm really not sure what to tell you. In my case, I walk a little more 
slowly now. I'm not quite as cocky as I was before.

Hope you heal fast.

All the best,
Craig and Chase
craig.heaps at comcast.net


On 11/23/2015 5:24 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu wrote:
> Yesterday, I went for a nice walk, but I took a bad step on one of those
> treacherous cracks that run parallel to the sidewalk, turned my ankle, fell
> down, and skidded along on my face.  Owie!  I've got quite a shiner, and I
> spent yesterday afternoon with my ankle elevated, putting ice on it.
>
> Krokus was upset when I fell, but I don't think he knows what happened.  At
> least, once I got him going again, he worked the same as always, so far as I
> could tell.  I don't know if I'm more wobbly, or he doesn't look out on the
> right very well.  This is my third fall since I've had him, a little more
> than a year.  The first was in the first week of our association, when
> accidents are likely.  The second was when I tripped on the edge of an ice
> bank getting out of the street.  The third was taking a bad step yesterday.
> All of them involved some little thing on my right. I don't want him hugging
> the left, but I don't want to trip on stuff, either.  I want him to walk
> down the middle of the sidewalk.  But I thought he was, and I still fell
> down.
>
> I know I have weak ankles.  I know a yoga exercise that's supposed to help.
> Guess I better start doing it.
>
> Two Indian girls came to help me when I fell down, though I didn't really
> need help.  But it was nice of them.  When I fell in the snow, no one came
> to help, even though I heard people nearby.
>
> Tracy
>
>   
>
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