Clearly, I don't have flight yet

[annathepiper]

It got unusually cold in Kenmore overnight--and rather damp, too. I looked out the bedroom window and saw a sheen of wet on the street and thought "Surely that isn't ice on the road..." Well, whatever it was, it was on the front steps too. As spazzkat and I were on our way out the door to go catch the bus, he was ahead of me and warned me that the steps were slick--about two seconds before my feet flew out from under me, and I landed hard on the bottom half of the stairs.

Most of my right leg took the impact, both high and low, and I should have an interesting array of bruises by tomorrow. There's also a scraped bit on the outer side of my right ankle. I don't think I hit my head, but my neck really didn't like that jolt to my system. In a word, ow.

I staggered back inside, fell over on the couch long enough to send in email to warn my lead and her lead that I was going to go back to bed for a while to sleep off the ow and would probably be working from home. Which I am now doing. But I will also be going to my chiropractor earlier than normal today, because ow ow ow ow ow.

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Ouch!! Sorry, sweetie. :(

[annathepiper]

Thank you! I think I'll be fine by tomorrow, after a lot of snoozing and ibuprofen and a visit to the chiropractor... but today, I will just be full of ow.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*hugs* ow. Not fun. Fortunately, the steps at the Treehouse, which is a bit further south and also a bit closer to Mean Sea Level, were only mildly slick, and I was more or less ready for them even in my haste to get out the door and catch the bus. But, ow... *hugs*

[annathepiper]

*snugs* Thanks. And it was the damndest thing, the steps have been slick before, but usually it's been ice. This was more like... maybe ice that had formed overnight and had mostly melted but had left the steps really slick anyway.

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

Yeep! Glad you are ok!

[annathepiper]

Thanks! *snugs*

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I'm glad you're mostly OK. I'm going to the chiropractor this afternoon to deal with my own injuries from this week, so maybe I'll see you there.

[annathepiper]

Maybe! Commiserations on your own tumble, too, and I'm so pleased that you're okay as well.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

augh! stop DOING these things to yourself!

[annathepiper]

Working on that, believe me!

solarbird actually wants to make the steps less prone to break our necks, but that will kind of require spring or summer weather, since those will be the times when we'll have long enough dry stretches for her to do the needed work.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Glad you are (mostly) okay tho.

We were in the 90's as recently as last weekend, and the area just below us hit the 100's. The weather juxtapositions are so weird.

[annathepiper]

Thanks! Yeah, I'm a little slow and sore this morning, but more or less okay, and I'll be heading into work in a bit. Hopefully my front steps won't be trying to kill me this time!

The weather's been weird and erratic up here, too. But I don't envy you your temperatures. ;)

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

No, no, no...you're supposed to throw yourself at the ground and miss. *sigh*

Feel better!

[annathepiper]

I totally missed the ground. The front steps, on the other hand... ;)

Thanks, anyway! I suspect I will be spending the rest of the evening off my feet, taking a very hot soak later, and going to bed early. @.@

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

You know, except for the whole falling down and getting hurt first bit, it does sound like a pretty nice evening.

[annathepiper]

It kind of was. :)

A little slow and pokey this morning (and up early, I apparently set my alarm wrong), but aside from being sore, I think I'm okay! So I'll be trying that going to work thing, and hopefully this time the steps won't be trying to break my neck.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Be careful slipping! You don't want to end up with a butt like mine!

I hope you don't bruise too badly (or maybe do so then you can show people awesome bruises, haha, so bruises with no pain).

[annathepiper]

Heh, the one big bruise I have is not in an easily visible place, unless I'm wearing shorts. But it's an impressive shade of purple!

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Ow...

[annathepiper]

In-DEED.

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Let's not have another year of medical problems for you. That would be bad. Definitely take a nice long soak, and if you have anything on hand like a bubble bath sort of thing that takes away aches and pains, add that to your bath. I know that Wal-Mart sells this sort of stuff (since I have to deal with it since it's in my department) and I remember you talking about Lush in an earlier post. Don't know what they'd have, but worth looking into.

[annathepiper]

Ah hell, this is small change compared to thyroid removal, a broken arm, and a bike accident. ;) I'm banged up, but I'll be okay by tomorrow, I think.

Happily, I have Lush stuff on hand: the bath bombs I bought the other day for solarbird and myself. Makes for a nice soothing bath. And I'll be snoozing early tonight!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

How are you feeling now that you've had a couple of days to recouperate?

[annathepiper]

I have an enormous dark yellow-brown bruise on the back of my leg, and my right ankle where I got scraped up a bit still feels a little weird. My shoulder actually also hurts--but I think that has to do with me playing my instruments like mad for the first time in ages this weekend, rather than my fall. ;)

My sleep patterns seem to be kind of screwy, though, as one might guess by me posting this comment at 1:15am local time rather than being in bed when I have to go to work in the morning. ;P But I'm hoping that if I have some nice soothing tea and try not to toss and turn in bed for a while, I'll settle down enough to actually get some sleep!

I've got more chiropractic appointments this week, though. My new chiropractor should be able to get rid of whatever lingering annoyances I have post-fall.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

We hatesss ice! Hope you're better today....

Cathy

[annathepiper]

Slow and pokey (and apparently up 45 minutes early, and I'm not at all sure how that happened, unless I set my alarm wrong last night), and a little sore... but I think I'm functional, so I'm going to try to head into work. And hopefully the steps won't try to break my neck. ;)

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

Sheesh.

I have fallen on the ice and it sucks!

{{ Feel better soon }}

[annathepiper]

Thank you much! I'm still a little slow and pokey and sore this morning, but I'll be heading into work anyway. And hopefully this time the steps won't try to break my neck.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

Hope everything settles down quickly.

[annathepiper]

I'm more or less okay today! I went on into work. I'm still a little sore in certain places, and a bit tired and fried, but otherwise functional. :)

[ssha.livejournal.com]

You know those spiky doormats? The plastic ones? Get some of those and cover the steps with them for this season of iciness. You will slip less. Another option, if the steps ever get dry enough for it to stick, is griptape of the sort skateboarders use so their feet don't slip off their boards, etc.

[annathepiper]

Dara already has a plan for treating the steps to prevent this from happening again. Problem is, we'll have to wait until the weather stabilizes so that the steps will be dry enough for her to carry out said plan.

[ssha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the spiky plastic stuff was a suggestion for an 'in the meantime' sense.

[annathepiper]

Yeah well, we'll see... vast majority of the time it's actually not too bad. The steps have been slick before, it's just that this time around it was particularly impressive. I figure spazzkat and I were coming out at the exact wrong time, when whatever ice that must have built up on the steps overnight was still melting.

A few more weeks and we'll be done with this sort of weather anyway. ;)