chiron

Getting top heavy, I never gave much thought to falling until I fell this winter on a light icy snow. Grounded, I lost both my feet from under me and hit the deck with a a full body slam. I never knew it was in the making. I hit hard and flat on my back and not on an arm or hip. My legs jerked with the impact. I lay there for a long minute before I gathered myself together taking inventory to see if I had broken anything. My right wrist twisted and my left leg hurt from the snap it took at the knee joint. Afterwards I took a hot bath and I rubbed down my back and wrist with myoflex. The next morning I had two equally distanced red-spotted bruises across my shoulder blades and my wrist and left knee hurt noticably. I know many who have fallen and broken a hip or leg or arm, but I never understood the full impact of such a fall: it happens lightning fast! And when it happens, snapping an wrist, arm, leg, or hip does not take much force if you hit just right. It takes a few days to get over the impact and the soreness. As we get older, it pays to pay attention to the possibility of falling! Prevention is the best measure.