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[ewt]

Just fell down the loft steps. It is slippery and the socks are also slippery.

To my credit, myback and neck are okay, and I didn't hit my head at all. And my leg has stopped hurting already and my shoulder was very tense but a bit better now, anf will continue with chamomile tea, which my housemate kindly made. He also hrlped with the sling and fetched my phone and other useful things, and it is a lot less scary being injured when someone else is around.

But my right arm is very painful. I've got it in a sling with some ice packs for now. Lifting and grasping stuff is possible but very painful; typing hurts terribly so I'm LH only for now, hence the errors. My fingers are slightly swollen and rathre tingly. Everuthing seems to move in all the directions it should, though.

I'm going to have some very pretty bruising!

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

This is not the right way to go about becoming more purple!

Hope you feel better soon!

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Try not to die!

Look on the bright side, you'll have very pretty bruises.

[pfy.livejournal.com]

Eep! *hugs, but careful ones*

Those loft steps are nasty. They're even slightly tilted to make it even more likely that you'll fall.

[karen2205]

ouch. *more careful hugs*.

Compression bandages and/or ibuprofen might be worth considering a bit later on (if you haven't already), if it continues to be very painful.

An email to the landlady mentioning it might be an idea (not sure there's much that can be done to fix it, but maybe she ought to be aware of it)

Yay for your wonderful housemate!:-)

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I said ibuprofen too.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I think she might point out that lofts aren't really meant for living in...

[karen2205]

This is true, but you're also supposed to be able to access them (whilst carrying heavy/awkward items of the type one stores in a loft) without injuring yourself.

:(

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

*comforts*

[corto.livejournal.com]

gah!!! I hope you're ok sugar-ewt...

[yady.livejournal.com]

Ow!

*hugs*

[403.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better soon.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Meep!

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Meep indeed. But it's enough better now that I can type; hopefully by tomorrow I'll be able to play horn. And do washing up, which won't work today because I can only hold things in one hand and can't really apply pressure with the right at all.

And I'll have to be very careful at Aikido tomorrow evening. But I think without the Aikido I have done, I may well have hurt myself far more badly than I did. A bruised elbow and thigh isn't bad going for falling down nearly an entire flight of stairs.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Did you get it checked?

Much getwellwishes.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't; it has continued to improve over the course of the afternoon and I can now type, though lifting things is still very dodgy.

If it gets worse or if it's still very bad tomorrow I will probably go along to a walk-in centre, but as I'm pretty sure it isn't broken I don't much see the point of several hours waiting to be told to keep it in a sling some of the time and use rest, ice, compression and elevation.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I used to think that, until I went to A&E because something was still hurting and was told that it had been broken, it had set a little awkwardly, and they could re-break it to fix it if I wanted! (I didn't.)

Improving++

[sci.livejournal.com]

Oof! Glad you're still alive and kicking Ewt!

[kake]

Eek, poor Ewt!