General Discussion & Chat: Your worst injury in the garden?, 1 by crystalspin

crystalspin wrote:
Great idea for a thread, Dinu! I'm pretty clumsy so this might not be the worst, but it is the most recent so it comes to mind:

Last spring, Blooms and I ran out of time and/or energy before we finished the whole backyard plan which involves arranging stepping stones and ground cover in an oh-so artistic design... we settled for landscape/weed cloth with a brick path just to a faux-door in the wall (mirror). Now, dead center in the area withOUT the path is an unused sprinkler head, about 1.5" tall; I didn't want to trip on it, so I cleverly positioned a half-size paver just to one side of it, on which I placed a cute statuary of two mice munching raspberries (small, ab. 6x8").

About 6 weeks ago, I was out watering when (okay, predictably) I tripped, not on the sprinkler head of course not, ON THE PAVER! I was leaning, probably, to reach with the watering cane, and threw out a hand which latched onto a branch of the fig tree... which is all this year's flimsy growth and did nothing to stop the fall, but instead caused me to swivel in mid-air, twist my right knee and my left ankle, and come down HARD on the outside of my left thigh DIRECTLY on the brick edging of the berrypatch. To add insult to injury, my flailing arms BOTH managed to end up tangled in the rasp- and blackberry brambles-n-thorns (after I let go of the fig)!

Another piece of Blooms's painstaking handiwork, the bricks are arranged on their long-narrow sides, tipped 45-degrees, and more-than-half buried (pic is before bed was planted, 2002 or 03) -- so not only did my thigh bruise the shape and size of a brick, the bruise FILLED with blood from landing on a point! It musta stood out an inch from the flesh, and was 2 or 3 weeks before the black-&-blue was absorbed; fortunately the twists were not sprains and healed faster in 2-3 days.

~'spin!~

This message was edited Sep 7, 2004 11:15 PM