It has been thirty years since I proper fell over

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Fixed that tonight out on a run. Somehow tripped over my own feet and went down like a sedation-darted elephant. Now nursing all my bruises and grazes, with a particularly fetching peppa pig plaster on one elbow. FFS.

Please tell me some of you have achieved similar feats of elegance and grace?

Fell over today and reopened a scrape that was just healing up. It hurts!!!!!

Oh.my.goodness. I'm morbidly fascinated watching my thumb change colour but that's NOTHING compared to that bathroom story.Glad I didn't risk a bath tonight or possibly ever again now I have that thought in my head

The bath story reminded me of when I was little, I slipped getting out of the bath and cut down below. It was awfully painful for a few weeks.

I last fell rushing for the train, fell down 8 steps flat on my face. Bust my knee. Conductor got off the train to check I was ok, bless him, then let me on.

@Spanielmadness ouch, how did you do that in the first place?? Looks sore!

oh no yorkshireteaspoonie! i was told the 12 weeks as well.
but i doubt it will be that long for me. week 6 and i can walk BUT look forward to seeing the dr. and finding out if i should be walking.
it took off the air cast two weeks ago at least and haven't slept with it on since week 2.
positive thoughts it goes by quickly.
i'll have to look up this jones fracture.

I totally feel your pain I tripped and fell out my back door a few weeks ago, there is a high step down onto some paving, I landed with such force I was surprised nothing was broken. Felt really sore for a few days and my right shoulder still doesn’t feel right.

Im terrified of the slightest bit of ice outside in the winter because Ive fallen so many times. Broken my arm once and also chipped a tooth another. Most times though it's just my bum and my pride that are hurt.

@Notapheasantplucker I fell over just under a week ago........ fell over in exactly the same way, scraped he same place today.......

@Spanielmadness ouch

This may be seriously outing but a few years ago, I managed to somehow trip over my cabin case whilst going down the spiral ramp at Gatwick, on a very, very busy morning. I fell flat on my face and kept skidding down for quite time. People just stood aside and left me to it. I scraped the side of my face and bruised my arms and legs. I was absolutely mortified - hubby still thinks it’s hilarious, I don’t.

I always wear slippers after going down the stairs on my back when I slipped in socks. It's a horrible feeling, and my back looked like a bar code, because it bruised in stripes where it had hit the edges of the steps.

Fell over right in front of a newsreader who was outside my office live in tv. Was extremely embarrassing but noone messaged me to say they saw me enlightening the whole of London with my great moves so I think I escaped fairly ok because only the general public were laughing at me which I could just about deal with it had nothing to do with leaving the pub just prior

I gel down the stairs about five years ago when we lived in Oz. My foot slipped on the step (damned big feet ) I put my right leg out to stop my tumbling down around the corner, instead I heard a crunch like a branch snap. I broke my tib and fib and was in hospital for two weeks awaiting an op. I ended up with two metal plates and nineteen screws.
My leg looks ugly with scars on both sides

Fell down some stairs which were 15 stairs, platform, 15 stairs. In one go
Landed sat on my ankle and quickly realised it wasn't meant to be facing that way. Shattered my ankle, foot and all the ligaments

I broke the other foot and ankle a year later. Getting out of bed

Tripped down the bottom step at my Dad's house while holding baby DD2. Saved her, but landed with my entire weight on my shoulder and popped the joint at the top. Was absolute fucking agony and needed a trip to MIU. They gave me some amazing floaty painkillers and Dad had to drive me and three children home. 250 miles. And then get the train back. I couldn't move it for a week and ended up doing a hideous public transport journey to work for another week as I couldn't drive. Still plays up now and she's 7!

@NoParticularPattern it's 1.35am I can't sleep and I now also can't stop laughing at your "non grippy heels" I hope you were ok.

But that's why I'm keeping my feet crusty!

I fell on a slippery drain cover , went down forwards and fractured my knee cap. Absolute agony but didn't realise what I'd done. 6 years on its finally healed up and doesn't give me pain, it was only when I had physio for a sports injury that the physio asked about what treatment I'd had for my knee cap fracture, he could feel the crack in it and said it had healed appallingly to the extent of medical negligence.

Few months ago doing a bit of window shopping, minding my own business.
I fell over my own foot and fractured my ankle, also think I have a broken pinky finger it's very painful and out of shape at the tip God knows how I done it.

Ever since having dogs, I must fall/slip over badly at least once a year. The worst was somehow getting both of my ankles caught in some barbed wire and literally being taken down, hit my head and think I briefly passed out, that was a nasty bruise! I'm always quite shocked and almost offended whenever I fall over

I seem to have somehow edged into the 'had a fall' territory. I slipped over when out with the family on some decorative but unevenly spaced steps. Didn't hurt myself but was shocked.

I was most upset by the man who came sprinting over saying things like "SO LONG AS YOU'RE ALL RIGHT" in a slightly too loud voice. I'm not even 50

@Nomorewine77 yes! Offended is absolutely the word. How bloody dare the universe not prevent me from body-slamming the pavement?

The more of these I read, the more I consider bungalows on rightmove....

Commiserations @ProfYaffle - he probably needed glasses. Or had just been on a first aid course and was desperate to whip out his triangular bandage.

Oo, oo, maybe he INSTALLED the unevenly spaced steps and was volubly preventing a future injury claim?

Last year fell over twice

1st time was more of a trip and fall downstairs landed with my hand under me and ended up displacing the knuckle on my left middle finger and tearing the ligaments. Still get residual pain almost a year later

2nd time was tripping over a paving stone that had sunken in, according to dh it was like watching somebody flying through the air until I landed heavily on my right arm and scraped all my knee, there was witnesses and dh was trying to get me up but I was so embarrassed that I just lay there for a minute trying to get my breath back

Turns out a local street cleaner had reported the broken stone 3 times in the past few weeks and he told me to report it which I did, funny enough it was fixed 3 days later, apparently I was going to get compensation because the broken stone was below their guidelines or something stupid like that

*not get compensation

Tripped and broke my ankle in two places a couple of years ago when away at a festival with friends, had to be ambulanced to hospital, put in a cast and given a Zimmer frame and then taken home, missing the whole thing.

Felt like such a twat. And it really really hurt. My friends were a mixture between empathetic and highly amused, and still use the word legendary when talking about it. The photos of me returning with my jeans cut off at the knee, my cast on, and clearly hung over to fuck are still laughed over.