News tonight reported that Hilary Clinton broke her elbow in a garage. It will require surgery to repair. Glad I'm not alone in the klutz department, but sorry it happened to her. She has canceled her schedule. Ouch, I know the pain!
guess i am in the same boat then with you klutzs kitty. my elbow and lower back are what hurt most after my fall this am on marble. the wrist is fine. except for typing. divvi and yes, pain and stiffness show up much later:) advill and i am doing pretty good so far.
Hilary and I are about the same age - one year difference. Sorry to say, but for women our age, the personal trainer I had when I was working up North, emphasized balance exercises relentlessly for us older women. She made me work out on a wiggly balance board - I hated it, but she was right. When the dog was in my way, and I ALMOST tripped, I was able to right myself and not fall because of those balance exercises. I even managed to keep from falling on the ice because of those exercises. I desperately need them again - I can feel my balance being off sometimes. I don't have to worry about falling on the ice here in Florida, but my tile floors are a killer.
As most of you know, I fell the fourth day into our vacation in Longboat Key Florida and fractured my right elbow. It hurts like HECK, still, but is beginning to loosen up a little. For weeks, I couldn't lift my arm higher than mid chest. Needless to say, putting on makeup, combing my hair, dressing...was a huge challenge. Hillary was never one of my favorite people, but I do feel sorry for her and "feel her pain". How old IS she, anyway??? Much younger than most of us, I'm sure. Just goes to show that it's not only the older people who slip and fall. My fall was the longest "fall-down" I have ever experienced. I feel like it was all in slow motion. I'm so grateful it wasn't as bad as Hillary's. I understand she will have surgery on hers. The doctor in the ER indicated it could be a possibility - for me - and I wanted to kiss him when he decided to put an elbow brace on it instead.
I decided that the elbow is connected to every part of my body...everything on my body that moved hurt my elbow the first week! :-)
I fractured my elbow in Feb. 2008. Boy, did that hurt. I didn't need surgery to repair it but did have to do a bunch of exercises so I wouldn't lose mobility. I fell off a curb after dinner for our wedding anniversary (margaritas might have had a little to do with it). This was when I started to notice something really wrong with my husband. I asked him if I thought I should go to the ER and he said he didn't feel like it and it could wait. I waited three days and the pain just got worse so I took myself to the doctor. He didn't care one bit----very unlike him in the past. Six months later we had the diagnosis of FTD.
Nancy, I've done the broken elbow-exercise thing also (indoor roller rink), and I agree with how it is connected to everything. I can't even imagine two! And then the shoulder to boot-Kitty I have really been feeling your pain. They say ribs and collar bone are some of the most painful since you can't "mobilize" or isolate the part. And the elbow feels the same. It is amazing what we take for granted until it is broken/sprained. It takes two hands (assuming one was smart enough to leave one hand/wrist intact at a time) to do so much more than we can imagine until we have to do with one. I broke my foot once and I couldn't believe how much ankle movement it took to go up stairs or walk an incline.
Several years ago I was on a ladder helping take snow off the roof when the ladder slipped. I fell and broke a rib. My own darned fault! Took forever to heal completely. I've never been on a ladder since--winter or summer.
I've broken both shoulders in the last three years - not at the same time. No fun at all. The only good to come of it is that I'm the only patient for whom my orthopedist has worked on all four limbs! I had both knees replaced also. It makes me feel special!
What is going on here??????? I just spoke to my cousin (age 63), who slipped and fell on the tile in her condo. Chipped elbow, bruised achilles tendon, and hit hard on her bottom, which did something to some body part I cannot pronounce, and the MRI showed bulging disks. She is in physical therapy.
Don't forget I managed to total a car (and fracture my pelvis) about 1 1/2 years ago and my DS totaled his car on the way to the ER to see us (in front of the hospital). And, my car was going to replace his a little down the road. PatB
well my tailbone is ok due to lots of padding:) but the soreness in my wrist and elbow, well advil is never far. i learn quickly, i will never do wet floors without NEW tennis shoes and lots of treading...and feel for the floor with each foot!!! am very thankful to be spared broken bones this time.divvi
When we built this house 3 years ago, I debated about ceramic in the kitchen and bathrooms, but my daughter thought at my age, her dad s illness and my 93 yr. old Mom they would be more dangerous with a fall. So, I did laminate all over the house and vinyl in bathrooms and laundry room. I am so clumsy, now I am glad I did and I love my laminate.
I'm sort of like you Imohr. We have a 100 yr old house - original hardwood floors downstairs, except for kitchen and bath. We pulled up carpet upstairs, put in laminate in all rooms, vinyl in bathrooms and Flexitec (soft vinyl) in kitchen. It has worked out really well.