I may have talked about this before, but my accident-proneness and klutziness is taking a toll on me! Being 5'9" tall with long limbs, I have always run into things, banged my head on stuff, slammed doors on fingers, forgotten to take one extra step around things, therefore resulting in many thigh and hip bruises over the years, etc, etc.
Sometime during the Wholefood years I fell on the ice outside when on a smoke break and hurt my back and shoulder (but it did get me to quit smoking). The summer of 2015 I fell down my steps back in Michigan which resulted in breaking my big toe badly, and with severe bruising and wrenching of every other part of my body. Spring of 2017 I fell while hiking and tore up my left knee which resulted in a knee arthroscopy later that fall. Then the wrist stuff started happening. When we moved into the house in late August I tripped on the loft stairs and fell on both wrists, then three hours later I fell out of my new office chair with wheels when it squirted out from under me, landing on both wrists AGAIN!
Fast forward - I had the right wrist surgery 2.5 weeks ago even though my left wrist is messed up again (confirmed by latest MRI). I have been healing up pretty good on the right side, so much so I was spending some time out of my brace so I could do light housework, the dishes, etc. Last night I was going up the three steps into the living room when I caught my toe and tripped, landing me on the scar site (still very tender) and on top of the metal plate on the ulna bone (outside bone of fore arm ). I also smacked my left wrist and hand really hard and bruised up my shin.
It is getting really embarrassing how accident-prone I am and it makes me worried as I get older. The new house is like a split-level, three or four steps up to each level. One of the problems is the steps are either really old large wooden beams or stone (they DO look really cool!) and are slightly uneven. The seller did put in handrails that I use *most* of the time (but apparently not last night). We also have a lot of night lights illuminating potential problem areas. But really all of this is due to my carelessness? not having a sense of where my body is in space? a visual perception problem? I have no idea, and now I think I have sent my wrist healing back quite a few notches. Anyway, I go back to see my orthopedic surgeon on Nov. 11. Whenever I go to the doctor anymore they always ask if I have fallen "due to a medical condition" and I tell them, yes, I have fallen, and is general klutziness a health condition now? Or sometimes I catastrophize that maybe I have underlying MS or something drastic that no one has caught yet....