Brick is not good....This may sound stupid, but, you may want to pad those area with cow mats. I have a cow mat outside of my patio door. If I do go down, at least I hit a rubber surface.

My daughter suggested I tile my kitchen floor (oh so trendy).....I gave her that look....I think 'Cork' is more up my alley.

Given you broke some ribs once....maybe you should consider having some xrays??? You know how bad it is to hit the ER on a weekend.

So sorry to hear this. Do you think you tripped, or is there a chance you fell from low blood pressure (hypotension)? Hypotension does cause a lot of falls.

So sorry to hear about this fall. If you remember, I posted about falling
by stepping in a pot-hole in a crosswalk a few months ago.
My doc had me do an MRI to make sure nothing was broken.
It took at least a month for the pain of the pulled muscles to finally subside.
See your doc. Get some pix of the area for him to check you out.
Falls are a real bummer!!

I am very sorry to read of this Cathie, i hope you aren't in to much pain and i also think its a very good idea to get checked out properly especially with Xrays as even small fractures can be nasty.

Brian

--given your previous history. It's not hard to re-break bones that have been broken once before, even with "perfect" healing . . .

Please do rest and ice--you'll certainly need to explain this to the puppies!

I hope you can get through this with pain kept to a minimum.

Oh my! I'm so sorry and I hope your ok. Please your in my thoughts and ask for help. You don't want things to get worse. Maybe take a bath with epsom salt? Please hang in there and many hugs!!!!!!!!!

BUT how it is.... Last year I fell in the house fractured a knee cap once going down, another way trying to get up! Year before was worse and entailed an overnite hospital stay [YICH!] But that time I had put a good dent in my head which was NOT detected by the EMT's the ER folks or anyone...I still think I've 'gravel pebbles' in there which will likely be found on my 'next' MRI? I don't know if you remember but last fall...late about late November? I was asking Rose and Mrs D a whole lot of questions about the Calcium, Vitamin-D, Magnesium connection. One thing I had learned at that point was that the 'anti-seizure' meds and other pain meds we take are notorious for bone loss. These meds that are supposed to 'help' us come at a substantial cost, for sure!
Then there was my Early winter-spring encounters with the Endocrinologist...I had NO recordable Vit-D, Calcium or Magnesium levels in the tests that the endo had ordered...I MEAN NONE! And I was taking a really good multi-vite and calcium tabs...Many. THEN there were the results of the 'autoimmune' thyroid tests...they were very high...but not like others I have encountered on this board or others..However, scary enough to almost put one into a panic.
As for any FRACTURE? I hope you called your doc and got instructions? For me it was YES a Friday and spent 6+hours in an ER 'outpatient' pod....one where they 'immobilized the knee' and sent me home...I was lucky to see the Orthopod [tho with difficulty and some funny moments?] and got the real skinny as to treatment...mainly MORE pain Pills and more x-rays, and a scrip for a wheelchair that I used for more than the 60 days allowed.
Most important was that I called ALL relevant docs and really LET THEM KNOW WHAT had happened! I knew the end result would be "Not Much" But I was sure it got on record ASAP...I have to tell you that it wasn't until the 3week mark that the second fracture showed up. Some/many/most hairlines do not so up until CALCIUM in the healing starts to show up really...IN THE CRACKS. Soo, I guess from my own experiences, chomp down all them thar calcium chews that you can? I know that at least they taste good....tho there are times when I just go WHAT?! Another fruitcake PILL! Enough already!
It was the re-learning of the 'bedpan' that was the hardest really tho...It seems to be something we truly would rather forget...Cannot IMGAINE WHY?

That all is beyond humbling...those who can walk and have not had this experience cannot relate AT ALL! However, we recover, re-learn, forget, and stubbornly proceed on. After all, what are the options? Give up? Who of us has an available 'person' to wait on us endlessly?

Hang in there good person! We know you have the spunk and that this is just one big whomp in the gut...so to speak. When you are up and about next, it's just gonna be a bit slower and more cautious. HUGS 's - j

The last fracture, I went to the ER, they gave me Morphine, which I am allergic to. They X-Rayed me, told me there was nothing they could do for fractured ribs, and sent me home. So I thought this time, since lungs seem OK, it would probably be a repeat. I thought I would just take some pain pills, ice the area, and see how I fared. The area in the rib cage hurts, but I am fine, other than being bruised and irritated with myself.

I fell because I didn't like the way the bricks looked, so last week had someone come raise and relevel them... Not used to the new height... Dumb mistake...

I did not hit my face because I was carrying a big, black trash bag full of trash and my face got buried in that... Never thought I would be thankful to have my face in the trash... This has to be a first...

Thanks to all!

Cathie

What is a cow mat anyway? Is this something you get at a farm supply? This may be a warning sign to do something about this area. This is the second time I have fallen out there in the last week. I backed up over some potted plants and fell over backwards. That time a hanging basket broke my fall...

Cripes, it is challenging getting old, though it does beat the alternative...

Cathie

P.S. MrsD: I may have this all out of balance. Is 1672 mg of Calcium OK w/below? Thank you...

Calcium Citrate & D: 800 IU D, 1260 mg Calcium (4 gag size pills)
Vitamin: 400 IU D, 200 mg Calcium
Biotin: (has calcium in it) 73 mg Calcium (dr. said for fingernails-doesn't work)
SloMag: 212 mg Calcium, 128 mg Magnesium (2 pills)