what is the worst fall you have ever had?

[AnnaS]

I have definitely noticed that I don’t bounce like I used to! Remember falling and just getting the wind knocked out but popping right back up? Now I feel like the I’ve fallen and I can’t get up lady or a Prolia ad!

Definitely know the feeling!!!!!!! Just playing with the grandchildren is a huge reminder.

(I forgot I broke my pinky and toe/separate occasions for being clumsy. But it did not compare with the broken foot and ankle).

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Down two flights of stairs - concussion
Was a little kid at the time

The one I remember slipped walking into the garage barefoot of course foot fell into the crack between the garage floor and the driveway twisted fell over backwards broke my foot two days before I left for Walt Disney World also smacked my head

Technically I could be on the subject all day because I’ve had so many slipped in the front yard cleaning the cooler up in the air the cooler went landed on top of me I was pregnant at the time

Dusting the ceiling fan standing on top of the coffee table slipped landed on top of the coffee table oh my back pregnant at the time

Because of an injury I have I don’t have a really great sense of balance So I often will trip over air

 

[Meriweather]

At my son's house, missed the bottom stair, fell on my hip (the bad one) and broke it.
Hip replacement, and was in the hospital for 3 days (one being my birthday).
I now have to hang on going up and down stairs.....scares me I might fall again.

 

[snowwite]

Down two flights of stairs - concussion
Was a little kid at the time

The one I remember slipped walking into the garage barefoot of course foot fell into the crack between the garage floor and the driveway twisted fell over backwards broke my foot two days before I left for Walt Disney World also smacked my head

Technically I could be on the subject all day because I’ve had so many slipped in the front yard cleaning the cooler up in the air the cooler went landed on top of me I was pregnant at the time

Dusting the ceiling fan standing on top of the coffee table slipped landed on top of the coffee table oh my back pregnant at the time

Because of an injury I have I don’t have a really great sense of balance So I often will trip over air

Good Lort you sound like me. My dad used to call me Grace. It’s not my name but I am not like a graceful swan. More like a drunk penguin!

 

[snowwite]

At my son's house, missed the bottom stair, fell on my hip (the bad one) and broke it.
Hip replacement, and was in the hospital for 3 days (one being my birthday).
I now have to hang on going up and down stairs.....scares me I might fall again.

Yikes! Be careful! I fell down the steps really hard last year while away only had a hematoma. If it was broken I don’t know what we would have done. DH did not think the medical insurance for travel was worth it and did not buy any!

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Nothing ever broken from a fall, but the worst was probably either off a horse or off a mountain bike. The horse fall knocked the wind out of me really badly, and the mountain bike fall scraped me up and left me with some whiplash.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Good Lort you sound like me. My dad used to call me Grace. It’s not my name but I am not like a graceful swan. More like a drunk penguin!

We are two peas in a pod !!!

 

[MamaMermaid]

Broke my elbow tripping over a box of diapers when my son was a month old on New Years Eve. I couldn't do anything, it was awful!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Fell down some steps a few days before my 3rd birthday and broke my arm.

 

[tony67]

Hmm, that I remember....

Walking out of a hotel in Budapest, stupidly looking at my phone, and missed a step.
Some random Brit tourist was quite amused, at first.
Lots of blood and a scraped knee, but it's never been quite the same since then. Still have a scar.

I learned my lesson though.

 

[sheilafri]

Slipped on a stair and rolled my ankle—a week before a cruise! It’s very disconcerting to see your foot in roughly a 90 degree angle to your leg. Used a boot through departure, got a wheelchair transfer between airplanes at Heathrow, and was good without a boot from then on.

 

[Rogue1677x]

Add me to the klutz club.

A month before my 1st wedding I was at work and twisted my ankle. When I fell, I landed head first into the rounded corner of a desk. The plastic surgeon who stitched up my forehead said the impact was so hard had the corner been square, it would have killed me.

Then December 2022 on the walkway from Beach Club to Hollywood Studios, I face planted on the cement. Broke my prescription sunglasses, cuts, scrapes all over my face, legs, a small pool of blood from my face and my dental crown is marked up from contact with the ground. But I will say there were so many people stopping to give me bandages, water and get help, it was amazing. I was wheeled to first aid, cleaned up and we made quick work of having some fun for the rest of the day.

 

[BrianL]

I have fortunately never been seriously injured or even broken a bone. I did fall off a small stepladder on my front porch and wanged my elbow pretty good - it hurt for a long time! I also fell ice skating and caught myself, bending my wrist. The doctor looked at at ans said, "It's broken." The x-ray came back - NOT broken, but a really, really bad sprain! She was shocked. It took a while for that to heal too - even after the pain was gone my wrist clicked when I turned it for more than a year or so.

 

[SueInBoston]

Sept 2018, missed a step at home and broke right ankle in 2 places, 3 surgeries and 5 years later, still not the same.

 

[lynxstch]

Eons ago, I had broken my kneecap in a car accident. Cast for 6 weeks. The day after I got the cast off, I somehow tripped in our apartment and fell and broke it again. Another 6 weeks in a cast. I use that knee as a weather barometer now. The funny thing is, I was reading my medical history after finding out I had A Fib, and I got down to the bottom, and it said I had a total knee replacement. They never asked me about it. I guess they saw the 2 scars almost on top of each other and just assumed. It took me forever to get it removed from my medical record.

 

[xjillianpaige]

I'm lucky that I've not had bad falls, I'm still young so my balance isn't off yet. But I did slip going down some stairs a few years ago and landed hard on my leg. I had a bruise larger than my fist for a few weeks that was a pretty dark purple.

 

[5kidsmommy]

Years ago I fell down a small staircase. Our bedroom was in the attic and it was the middle of the night. I didn't turn on the light because I didn't want to wake anyone as I made my way to the bathroom. But I fell, bruised myself pretty badly. Woke all the kids up and the worst part was I was not wearing anything. My kids and husband still laugh about it.

 

[maxaroni]

You are asking for the worst? Ugh, probably either of these 2.

I was carrying laundry down the stairs, tripped at the top and fell down the full flight. Hit my head ending in a gash, broke & disclocated my shoulder.

On vacation in the Caribbean and tripped, put my hano out to break my fall. I broke my wrist in 3 places and needed surgery. Waited to get back to the US for surgery.

I have also had some falls where I broke an arm. Did that twice, once breaking my right arm, the other breaking my left. Slipped and hit my head ending with a concussion.

 

[Disneyland1084]

5 years ago when I was one month pregnant with my DS, but didn't know it. I fell FLAT on my face at a shopping center the Saturday before Christmas in front of hundreds of people, lol. I got up really quick. Then last month, two days after a huge snow storm I took my dog on a walk. Two minutes into it, I slipped REALLY hard and banged my head on the ground. My dog was fine, but as I'm falling I yell holy *moly*. Luckily no one else was outside.

 

[amcnj]

Fortunately no serious injuries so far, but have had two ice related falls, one on a driveway and one on a sidewalk.

The winner for me could have been when I was around 25. I was painting the exterior of my parents’ house, sitting on the pitched roof to paint a dormer that ended in a narrow triangle at the roof peak. Suddenly I started to slide, was rapidly approaching the edge of the roof, but managed to get one foot into the gutter and keep myself from flying off.