[nagdu] Fell down

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Mon Nov 23 16:18:33 UTC 2015


Oh yeah!  Krokus learned very fast to look out for those places where tree
roots have lifted the sidewalk.  I think the parallel cracks are less
obvious to him.
Glad you were basically OK from your fall.
Tracy


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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Craig Heaps via
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Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fell down

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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