[nagdu] Fell down

[Jenine Stanley]

Oh Tracy, sorry to hear this. Ouch definitely. 

Funny thing, I fell today too. we were going at speed and went to make a turn onto a cobblestone path in our neighborhood. I have hideously weak ankles too and my left one sort of folded over while the right one did something else in another completely unrelated direction. I’ve learned to fall over the years and swung myself around so as not to do a full face plant. I picked myself up and we went on our way. Roger was concerned and bopped me with his nose but then once he saw we were continuing on, he lost interest in my klutziness. 

I’ve noticed over the past few years, like maybe 10 or so, that I can get off balance and fall to the right much more easily. Not sure it’s me or the dogs. 

One thing Swap’s trainer taught him, more for fun than anything else as he, the trainer, was learning to use the clicker was to position himself so that the dead center of the handler’s right foot hit the sidewalk craks. This was so awesomely invaluable to me and I never really knew just how much until I didn’t have that. Roger does try, as I did reward him big when my foot did hit those cracks in the beginning but his legs are so short that it’s hard for him to smoothly adjust his stride. 

Hope the shiner and ankle heal soon. 
Jenine Stanley
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> On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Craig Heaps via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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