yesterday we had some slippery snow falling on the ice patch that is our road - and as I left the house I fell over. Well to be precise, one minute I was standing up and the next I was crashing to the ground banging my hip and jarring my arm badly. I was totally winded and felt completely drained for about 20 minutes afterwards. I now have a super bruise and a graze on my right hip. I have been trying hard for the last weeks for this not to happen and have slipped badly several times but have always stayed on my feet. This time I really went over hard.
It set me thinking what an awful thing it must be for elderly people to fall over in the same circumstances. I am fit and fairly hardy but it still gave me a real shock. A more frail person would not have had any chance at all to react and protect themselves. I was also in the street alone with noone near. If I had been older I could have been lying there in the below freezing cold and growing darkness for ages. It does not bear thinking about.
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Can you imagine what the reaction would've been in the US or Britain?
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Michael, just out of interest have fallen twice more. We have hada spells of zero with thawfreezethaw freeze and the pavements are awful. Luckily no bones broken..
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