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I had a close call yesterday. After collecting the mail, I was walking back to the van when I tripped while stepping off the curb. I fell flat forward, including my face, on the asphalt parking lot. I remember trying to spread the fall over as much of my body as I could and to try not trying to break the fall with my hands. When I hit the ground, I felt my glasses fly off my head, and feared that I'd just broken my new glasses. And of course, falling on my stomach made the whole area where the surgical scar is still healing hurt a lot.
For a moment I just lay there saying, "Ow, ow, ow." By then, one of the other people parked nearby noticed me and got out and asked if I needed help.
Pulling myself to a seated position, I said, "No, I don't think so. Just give me a moment to recover."
I found my glasses. To my surprise, they weren't broken. They weren't even scratched! However, in the process of coming off, they'd put a small gash near my right eyebrow. It's not that visible, as you can tell from the post-laser photos yesterday, which were taken a few hours later.
I slowly got back to my feet. I know from another fall I took a long time ago (1980!) that getting up too quickly from a fall like that is a good way to fall back down again by fainting. However, by doing things slowly and carefully, I found myself back up again.
There was a nasty looking scratch on my left thumb. It felt like I'd also torn up both knees, but there was only a bruised spot on the left one and a tiny scratch on the right. All in all, I seem to have gotten off lucky.
However, the slight wooziness I had suggested that I'd just slightly concussed myself. I was very careful getting home, concentrating carefully and not doing any "automatic driving," because I did that once with a concussion and I'm lucky I didn't drive right off the road.
Once I got home, I cleaned the cuts and went back to work. The fuzziness in my head cleared after a while, and I was able to go to my laser appointment as planned. But it was a scary moment.
For a moment I just lay there saying, "Ow, ow, ow." By then, one of the other people parked nearby noticed me and got out and asked if I needed help.
Pulling myself to a seated position, I said, "No, I don't think so. Just give me a moment to recover."
I found my glasses. To my surprise, they weren't broken. They weren't even scratched! However, in the process of coming off, they'd put a small gash near my right eyebrow. It's not that visible, as you can tell from the post-laser photos yesterday, which were taken a few hours later.
I slowly got back to my feet. I know from another fall I took a long time ago (1980!) that getting up too quickly from a fall like that is a good way to fall back down again by fainting. However, by doing things slowly and carefully, I found myself back up again.
There was a nasty looking scratch on my left thumb. It felt like I'd also torn up both knees, but there was only a bruised spot on the left one and a tiny scratch on the right. All in all, I seem to have gotten off lucky.
However, the slight wooziness I had suggested that I'd just slightly concussed myself. I was very careful getting home, concentrating carefully and not doing any "automatic driving," because I did that once with a concussion and I'm lucky I didn't drive right off the road.
Once I got home, I cleaned the cuts and went back to work. The fuzziness in my head cleared after a while, and I was able to go to my laser appointment as planned. But it was a scary moment.
