Well I tripped over my own gardening tools last night when I was weeding....I feel REAL hard on my left arm. I ended up in ER today and I did break my arm (oh great!) My radius bone is fractured so now I am on some good drugs and will be seeing the bone dr Thu morning so see if I need surgery or a cast....hopefully I won't need either..... I can't believe how this happened - I feel so stupid!
Ouch - my first real gardening accident
Oh - so sorry to hear that, Dawn! Hope you don't need surgery. Good luck. You are right-handed, I assume?
OMG - so sorry to hear of your injury, Dawn - but at least you have something interesting to say about it. I hurt my ankle three weeks ago and all I did was stand up - how geeky is that???
BTW, why can't I make happy faces anymore? ^_^
Ohhh! So sorry! Don't feel bad though. Last week I got up, opened the front door to let the dog out, took a step outside and fell off the porch hitting my head on a perfectly placed rock.
I blame it on not being totally awake yet, but I certainly felt like a klutz!
Wow - good thing you were not seriously injured, Bynde! Sounds like an injury thread starting!
I guess I am not the only one who is clumsy.....I am right handed so at least that part is ok.
You know what my first thought was when the dr said it was broken "OMG how am I going to dig a whole for my new Betty Corning clematis" LOL LOL!!!
Dawn, hope those drugs are working. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Hee hee - that's what husbands are for!
Using the shovel...
Oh my, so sorry to hear of your injury. I hope you will be back at two arm strength soon, but until then take Victors advice and ask for some help with the digging and other hard tasks.
Dawn - so sorry you have a broken arm. Bad time of year for you to hurt yourself (anytime of year is bad but when you want to be outside working in the garden it's even worse). Hope you don't need surgery and that you heal quickly. Seandor - don't feel "geeky". It's probably more common than you think. The other day my DH took a hanging basket down for me and when he handed it to me I fell down twisting my ankle and dumping the flowers. Neither one of us (the basket or me) were hurt. DH picked me up and put me back on my feet and I picked up the flowers and put them back in the basket!!! It's a little bit embarrassing but my family and neighbors are used to seeing me fall down. I wacked Colin's head on the car door yesterday trying to get him in his car seat - now that is really bad when you start hurting someone else with your clumsiness. Both of you, Dawn and Seandor, take care of yourselves and let the DH's wait on you arm and ankle!! Eleanor
Sorry to hear that Dawn, tough break! (no pun intended). Its not a stupid accident, its a common one and even worse at night! Got to be real careful with tools lying around they're always potentially dangerous! - guess you know that now...
- feel better! ☺
I nearly cut off the tip of my finger a few years ago while dead heading salvia. Didn't go to the er, and it did eventually heal, but it could have used stitches. Some nerve tingling still when I touch it. The bird still flips, though...
I am gonna fess up. My friend got me into planting veggies in 2004. Ok. Then he got me into canning them.. Ok .... So I was trying. Get jars in pot, boil and get them out with the jar removal thongs. Ok.... did it and kept trying.... got burnt and burnt. Cant get the jars out of the pot, got burnt. They came in and watched me. Come to find out I had the jar removal tongs upside down where it could not grasp the jar. DH and freind still is LMAOLOL. and I feel Stupid Stupid Stupid. Still.
Ouchie wowie Dawn. Sorry to hear about the arm. If you end up in a cast you could use that arm to balance the camera while taking pics of your clems!
Your middle finger I assume Victor??
Yes, Weeze. On the left hand - the driver's side.
OK here's my sad tale - (oh boy I shudder and blush just thinking about it) It was a bright summer morning a few years ago. As early as it was ---it was already getting hot and steamy. I had just finished showering and had thrown on a summer shift. Rosie was waiting at the door to go out to do her business. While we were outside --and before it got really hot---I figured I'd check out was was blooming in the garden. Rosie was snuffling around trying to find the 'perfect' spot for her morning business. All of a sudden I saw Rosie jump back. She had gotten into a nest of bees in the grass. I saw/heard it happening and "TAWANDA" took over! (I loved that dog and would do anything for her ---including braving the wrath of a hundred yellow jackets.) Rosie weighed ~ 60 pounds and I realized that to pull her away... I would have to tug really really hard. Anyway, I have this metal 'yard bird' - made from recycled tools. It's toes --about four feet long (OK ... 7 inches but it seemed then that they were four feet long) are really the rusted tines of a pitch fork.. it's got some kind of long spokes coming from its head and very sharp 'wings.' Long story short --- it is DANGEROUS ! As I grabbed Rosie and jerked her back (with the sound of very agitated bees filling the air) I threw myself off balance.. Immediately behind me was that darn yard bird --ready to impale me! I started to go down right on top of it.... and somehow (STILL DON'T KNOW HOW) I flipped over it (like a somersault). I believe that it involved defying nature and the laws of physics..no kidding. The worst thing was that --as my legs went over my head and my shift followed immediately after ---all I could think about was that I DIDN'T HAVE ON ANY UNDERPANTS! Neighbors cover thine eyes! Yellow Jackets careful where you plant those stingers!
The looks like one dangerous bird!
You win - 'hands down'!!!
Victor - yeah...and 'feet up' right?
Yes!
I'll be back....im still laughing!! SORRY!!!!!
Get well soon Dawn!
Wouldn't that be a YouTube moment?!
Sorry if I am being to honest here but that is one ugly bird and dangerous at that!!! Gosh you are so lucky you didn't fall into that thing!!!!
Yeah - I didn't feel lucky at the time...but in retrospect...(and during the tumble, I managed to forget about the bees and apparently they were amused enough to forget about me. Now THAT'S lucky!) Anyway, my effort to help you feel a little better about your arm~ hope it mends quickly.
Sorry Dawn, hope you're back to digging soon.
I was trimming hedges one year with an electric trimmer, reaching too far and the trimmer was too heavy, ending up slicing the cord halfway through along with a nice cut through half of the tip of my thumb. Could have been much worse.
Wow, Victor mentioned how he "flipped the bird," but i bet he didn't do it quite like Missingrosie!
Dawn, i hope you feel better, and heal quickly.
Can't touch that...
Wouldn't even try. Someone might get hurt...
Thanks everyone for your sweet words and sharing your stories as well.....I guess we all do things we feel are just "stupid" or that we can't believe that happened!! I actually enjoyed reading this thread....thanks folks.
That's awful Dawn!
Wishing you an uneventful recovery.
oh hope you mend fast! I sprained my ankle and tore tendons one year on the only patch of ice still left in the state. Took two years to heal. I saw it too and decided to step on it anyway! Love the stories...I don't feel so alone in the silly injury reason department. My sis called me one day and told me she broke her toe parasailing. I said wow...really? She said noooo....but it sounded better than I stubbed my toe and broke it....
Oh Dawn, anything that handicaps Spring chores is terrible. Hope you can adapt quickly.
Missingrosie...we do have a nack for yarn spinning down here. Wish I could still cart wheel around my yard. Takes some 'shine to bring out that talent! I was puzzling over how you were young enough to do calesthentics and old enough to wear "shifts". Great story! Maybe next time you'll summer garden as I do. Skip the shifts and put on DH's Snoopy boxers.
Laurel
Laurel
How did I do it? Easy ... it was the sight of those very pointy prongs getting closer to impaling me --kind of like when we read about people picking up cars or doing some other type of near-impossible physical feat in times of high stress or fright. You're right of course about the inappropriate gardening garb --- in my defense, I was only trying to let the darn dog out to do her 'stuff.' I don't think it would have been all that much better in DH's boxers.. "North Carolina woman found impaled on garden ornament wearing boxers shorts decorated in little pink pigs... "
Dawn:
Your mishap tale reminds me
How I became a screamer
When slipping on a garden rock
I fell and broke my femur.
So I can just imagine
Of how you serenaded us,
When working on your weeding
You fractured your left radius.
I can only offer one small
comforting parameter.
Snapped radii hurt just half as much
As a pulverized diameter.
GROAAAAN :(
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