When was the last time you flat-out busted your ass?

[Maddy McCall]

Or your tits, if you fell forward?

Well, my mother didn't name me Grace for a very good reason:

Last night, I was sneaking some Christmas gifts in while MMjr was upstairs. One of my Crocs caught on the edge of the step, and I landed on my face on the front porch, after falling up the steps while trying to maintain some warped sense of balance. Both of my hands were gripping bags, so I landed face-down (or should I say boobs down?) on the porch, with the Deal or No Deal board game under me. The corner of the box drove into my rib cage and left a nasty scratch and bruise. And my knee looks like a big blue softball.

MMjr heard the commotion and came running outside with my first responder kit. I screamed "Don't look at your gifts!" and he helped me inside and patched me up. LOL. He swears that he did not see his gifts.

I'm sore today. :(

I'm just glad that no one was watching me last night...except the dogs, who looked rather perplexed that their mom was down on the porch for some crazy reason.

So when's the last time you took a spill?

[Sugar Smack]

1. OK, This isn't the last, but it was the worst-

I was in the sixth grade on a balance beam. I got to the middle of it and I slipped and fell. You can guess where I landed!

I'm not a guy, but I do know how it must feel to get kicked in the nuts. I actually saw stars. OMG, worst pain ever.

:scared:

[Maddy McCall]

4. God that just made me cringe.

OUCH! :(

[Sugar Smack]

65. Actually, I made myself cringe a little writing that.

EGAD!!! Of course, that wasn't the exact language I'd used.

[BarenakedLady]

6. I did that on a bike once

OUCH!!!!

[amitten]

23. Me too. Horrible, nauseating pain. But no worse than

menstrual cramps! I don't even want to THINK about what labor must feel like.

[Maddy McCall]

40. Two words: back cramps.

Followed by one word: epidural.

:D

[Sugar Smack]

68. Oh, my god. See, we DO know what it's like

to get kicked in the nuts, don't we???



:hug:

[cwydro]

71. Me too

in college. Did not know you could turn black and blue there. Hurt SO bad and my girlfriend at the time was an athletic trainer, who insisted on treating it...and no, that was not fun.:evilfrown:

[some guy]

2. ouchie...

I'm sorry you fell and got banged up. :hug:

Me - last time was in May. I was staying at a hotel in the mountains, and went out about midnight to take some pictures of the hotel all lit up against the dark night. Like you, I had stuff in both hands, and it was really dark out. Bunged up a knee and an elbow.

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

5. Did you get any good photos?

After all of that, I hope you got at least one decent photo.

:)

[some guy]

14. eh, no.

I did get good pics during the day. I shoulda settled for that. :)

[Texasgal]

3. AWWW!!! You poor baby!

I hope you get to feeling better soon!!!

I am constantly busting my ass... not long ago, I broke my wrist in 3 places falling in the parking lot of my office. It was a good thing it was early and no one saw!!!

I've never been...*ahem* graceful!

[Maddy McCall]

7. How's that arm doing?

:hi:

:hug:

Good to see you!

[Texasgal]

9. It's better... the soft cast is off!

Good to see you too... :)

Miss you sweety!

[Maddy McCall]

12. Does your arm feel funny without the cast?

After I broke my knee several years ago and had first a hard cast and then a flexible cast (had a hinge at the knee), I felt weird when I had it all off and no crutches anymore. My right leg was smaller than my left leg. LOL. Took a couple of months to get it back to normal.

[Texasgal]

13. Oh yeah... My hand looks pasty

white without the cast, you can also see where the bone "buckeled" at my wrist. Uggg... it's gross!

[Maddy McCall]

19. Maybe when you build your muscles back in that arm...

it won't be evident.

:)

[buddhamama]

8. a couple of weeks ago

i fell down the basement stairs, the last few steps on my bum. i was soar and black and blue for a while.

:hug: feel better, dear. :hug:

[Maddy McCall]

10. Oooowwww.

That had to hurt. You're lucky you didn't mess up your buttbone.

:hi:

I'm ok today...I took some aleve, so it's not too bad.

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

11. Yikes

Sounds painful. :hug:

I fell not too long ago, probably tripped over a toy or dog or something. I got the worst bruises. I bruise soooo easily too. Look at me funny and one appears somewhere on my person. heh.

[Maddy McCall]

18. Awww....

I bruised easily when I was a kid, so I can definitely sympathize with you.

:hug:

[ulysses]

15. month and a half, maybe.

I'm generally able to avoid going all the way down, but I walk quickly and this particular day hit a puddle of milk in the school cafeteria with my heel. Straight down on my side. Had the cafeteria been full, I would still be hearing about it, but fortunately no one was there.

[Maddy McCall]

20. Lucky.

Yeah, kids wouldn't let you live that one down.


And your baby--every time I see your posts--I just love your avatar. Cutest baby eyes in the world :)

[ghostsofgiants]

16. This summer, skateboarding.

Spun a heelflip a little too hard, the board landed on its side, I fell on my ass. Not fun.

[Maddy McCall]

21. I skateboarded when I was a kid in the seventies...

My brother and neighbor had this excellent idea. One would get on his skateboard and the other on his, and they would be side by side. And I would put one foot on my brother's board, and one foot on my neighbor's board, and we would ride down this huge hill on an asphalt road by our house.

Well, the two guys becan to diverge from each other on the way down. My legs spread further and further apart...I was literally doing a split--and then my face hit the road. My bottom teeth went through my bottom lip...and I was quite bloody.

And this was before school, and my mom had already left for work. So I had to go to school bloody with a hole in my lip.

It was a trauma that shaped who I am today. :silly:

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Ouch!

I've been skateboarding for 8 years, but bombing hills is something I'm still terrified to do. But the whole foot on each other's board thing is just asking for trouble, haha.

[Omphaloskepsis]

35. Ahhh the old ankle breaker..

Those are about the worst.

[ghostsofgiants]

41. Actually it was a tailbone buster.

Though I hurt my ankle the week before with a varial heelflip. Heelflips are the devil.

[Omphaloskepsis]

56. They are, I have only landed about ten.. On carpet.

I can do kick-flips in my sleep. Backside half cab kick-flips are my favorite trick.. And backside 360's are really high on the list.

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. I skateboard every day.

I hit the ground over 30 times per month. I'm low-balling that estimate. Last night I did a Nollie kick flip to nose manual and fucked it up. I hit the ground so hard and fast that I didn't have time to get my hands down. It was brutal. My old ass skinny body takes a healthy beating.

[Maddy McCall]

22. Oh man.

You must have a high tolerance for pain.

:scared:

[hfojvt]

25. are you hoping to hear from

Southlandshari?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4597931

I thought there was usually another definition of "busting a$$" - as in 'working it off' which I do on a regular basis. No big wipe outs for a while. Although a seemingly minor trip and fall a couple years ago has kinda disabled my right knee, even after surgery.

Oh, since you mentioned dogs, I remembered another one. I have this game I play. When I bring my dogs in, I send the small puppy down into the basement. Then I race around the living room and upstairs and dive on the bed - with the puppy chasing me all the way. Only this time, as I turned the corner in the living room, my other, larger dog was right in my path. I tried to dodge, but was tripped and went 'WHAM!!' on the living room carpet. Didn't hurt too bad though, although it kinda dinged my bad knee.

[Maddy McCall]

30. I can assure you that...

I am not hoping to hear from her. :)

Ouch to both! You seem to have a penchant for damaging your knees. From one hurt knee to another, I'm sorry about your knee injury.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

26. I met a DU'er this past summer

and fell pretty hard...

:9

RL

[Maddy McCall]

31. Really.

Spill the beans. Let the cat outta the bag.

Who'd you fall for?

:D

[RetroLounge]

34. I cannot tell a lie. It was you my dear...

:hi:

RL

[Maddy McCall]

38. Well...

I have a thing for guys with books.

So we're good, right? Do you want to wear tails to the wedding? White really isn't my style...I'll wear gold.

:P

[RetroLounge]

42. Tails and a top hat, of course...

The gold tipped cane to match your dress is a must...

:hi:

RL

[Connonym]

27. October the dog tripped me and I landed head first on my patio

The knot on my forehead was pretty scary. I actually still have slight lump and pain in the area. Wait...you said busted ASS not head.

Dogs seem to be a common reason for falling, eh?

[Maddy McCall]

32. That hurt me just reading about it.

Thank god the Deal or No Deal broke my fall. But head first on concrete? Man, you are lucky you weren't really really hurt.

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. This past March, when the steps were icy...

...I was being VERY careful but ended up slipping anyway. I fell flat on my ass and had a bruise on my bum for a couple of weeks. :yoiks:

[Maddy McCall]

33. I'm glad that we don't get much ice here in Mississippi.

I'd be on the ground more than I'd be off of it.

:D

[tigereye]

29. that's sweet that your son came out with the first aid kit....

I've fallen on my face more than a few times, since I'm a bit of a klutz.

Once when I was working at a shelter for difficult teens, I turned around and blam, right into a wall. (I also seemed to have really poor space relations at the time!)That really inspired some serious confidence. ;)

[Maddy McCall]

36. He heard the fall and heard me crying.

I know, I'm a big wuss. The fall knocked my breath out of me, and then when I could breathe again, all I could do was cry. I was afraid to move, because I didn't know if I had broken something. Like I said, big wuss.

:D

I hope, when you hit that wall, you had not just finished disciplining one of the teens. :D

[tigereye]

44. oh, no

I don't think I'd worked there very long, and it made me look even less in charge than I already did as a newbie. (in settings like that, you really need to project strength). :rofl:

Anyway, it was a long time ago, and I graduated to seeing problem kids one on one - much easier that way!

[SPKrazy]

37. I've Fallen Off My Porch Twice

busted my ass good

I fell walking with my son, broke a bone in my foot, he started laughing because he thought I did it on purpose (he was 4)

I'm a Klutz for the most part

[Maddy McCall]

39. Good gawd.

Were we separated at birth? :D

And, about your user name. Do you kick southpaws? Or are you a kick-ass southpaw? (...asks a very nervous southpaw :scared: )

[SPKrazy]

43. It's A Goofy Name

I was coaching my son's soccer team and I kick primarily with my left or south foot.

so I was thinking of a name, and Southpawkicker came to mind. I am right handed although you can't read my writing right or left handed very easily nowadays.


I might be have been separated at birth if you are as klutzy as me. Somehow I've only broken the foot and a finger in my life (knock wood)

:)

[Maddy McCall]

47. I've broken my foot twice...

and my tib-fib at the knee in a go cart wreck several years ago.

:D

You don't have any relatives in Texas do you? We might have to look into this "separated at birth" thing.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

51. Texas?

May have relatives there.

I have them in Oklahoma, Tennessee, other parts of the country, I am pretty sure Texas too!

The first time I fell off the porch, I locked the door, turned around and boom, I was laying on the ground (about a 3 foot drop is all) I lay there for a minute because it knocked the wind out of me and I was trying to decide if I was okay I looked up and my dog was looking out the windows on the sides of the door (kind of a colonial style older house with windows that go all around the door) wagging his tail watching me.

I got up, dusted myself off, "I meant to do that!"


:pals:

[Maddy McCall]

54. LOL

Ok...glad that you weren't hurt. But I bet your poochie was thinking, "And this is the guy who feeds ME??"

:rofl:

:pals:

[SPKrazy]

55. No Doubt!

I was wondering the same thing

The second time I did it a few years later I realized that I've got to slow down, I lucked out both times and didn't fall on the concrete but the grass.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

46. I Live By The Choctaw Nation

I live in Fort Smith Arkansas which is just across the state line from Oklahoma from the Choctaw Nation. I was reading your profile. Interesting.

[Maddy McCall]

49. The Mississippi Band of Choctaws is about 100 miles from where I live...

as the crow flies.

They are casino rich these days. We love to visit their casino complex in Choctaw, Mississippi.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

52. They Have A Casino Just Across The Stateline

and they are casino rich here as well

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

58. Reminded Of Another Incident

about 10 years ago

wife and I were getting the artificial tree (I'm allergic to real trees) down from the attic, it's a big tree and was in a huge box. She was above me so I could lower it down once she got it going. The ladder broke and the tree fell on me, she fell on me, and I fell on the floor,

it did bust my ass, my back hurt for quite a while after that but neither were hurt really. Luckily she fell on me since she fell the farthest:shrug:

[Maddy McCall]

60. Ya know....

If you had video'ed all of these accidents, you'd probably be a millionaire from prize money on America's Funniest Home Videos.

:D

[SPKrazy]

62. Maybe I Should Just Hire One Full Time

it might pay off rather quickly the way I'm going!

:rofl:

[hyphenate]

45. I've been doing it a lot lately

and seriously it has me worried by the frequency. However, the most recent time was last week, when I tripped on a piece of paper on the hall stairs, and ended up taking the bottom four steps with my ass. Thank the stars it's amply padded. :)

[Maddy McCall]

50. Tripped on a piece of paper?

Kudos to you! I think I've found a bigger clutz than me! LOL.

[uppityperson]

48. Poor Maddy, glad you are ok, not broken

for me it was 1 yr ago. Pulling something which broke and flung myself backwards, skull hit edge of windowledge. Week off work, major concussion, still have gaps in brain and neck still not right. I hate falling. Have done the miss the edge of the porch step and gracefully fall onto knees while trying to roll thing myself also. How about walking down a grassy hill and foot slips going into semi-splits? That is always a good one to try.

[Maddy McCall]

53. OUCH...the window ledge accident.

That had to REALLY hurt.

A couple of years ago, I was raking, I mean really getting into it, and the rake broke, and I hit myself in the face and gave myself a black eye.

But HOLY SHIT you were lucky that you didn't hurt yourself worse than you did. A concussion's bad enough, but you could have seriously, permanently hurt yourself.

:scared:

[uppityperson]

57. I did, but minorly so far

memory gaps, have always had trouble with names but it is worse and I keep finding closed boxes in my memory that I don't know are there until I find them. Glad it is not worse.

You hit yourself with a rake? Never did that one.

[Maddy McCall]

59. Awww....

I didn't know this about you.

:hug:

[uppityperson]

61. huh? Who are you?

It has happened a few times, don't know I don't know something I should until it comes up. Stuff I've already thought of is accessible, but stuff I haven't thought of may not be. Meeting a friend I haven't thought of, may have no clue as to who they are until they say their name and then bammo, box is opened and I remember everything I should. Odd. Oh well, trying to get past being shy about telling people since once they know it can explain why I am, um, more spacey that usual. Wonder what I'll be like when I'm 80? Probably close to the same but more so.

Edited to add MrUP's busting ass. Got knocked down rollerskating at a rink at a family gathering (was abut 40) and broke tailbone. Had a painful time sitting for a while. Truly busted ass.

[jus_the_facts]

63. From a dead sleep...I jumped out of bed at hearin' the doorbell....still half asleep...

....tripped over a pillow and came _____this close_____ to my head landing in the cat box...got a nasty carpet burn on my left knee as I landed on it and slid a'ways before almost endin' up covered in *clumps* of kitty litter. x(

:hi: MM I feel yer pain!! :hug: :loveya:

[Maddy McCall]

64. Oh SHIT!

I mean literally!

OMG...I am sorry I am laughing, but BWAHAHAHAHA! That could have been tragic! :rofl:

How are y'all doing over there? I am hoping to make it that way at least once through the holidays to camp at D'Arbonne.

:hi:

:pals:

:loveya:

[jus_the_facts]

70. LOL...the pain wasn't so bad after avoidin' bein' covered in cat poop......

....it left a nasty scar but I didn't become a shit-head to boot!! :rofl:

Ahhh the lake looks absolutely beautiful this time o'year...one of my dearest friends and his fiancee just moved up there...they got an awesome place with a dock and boathouse...very peaceful and gorgeous sunsets from their porch! :)

[skygazer]

66. Double post

oops!

[skygazer]

67. Today at work

Pulling a very heavy tote (that's a large plastic bin with a cover on hinges) off the top of a sky-high pallet. It got hooked on the tote below it and they both came down. I got beaned in the face, the tote I was holding pinched my arm in the hinged lid and left me with a combination cut/blood blister but I didn't break any of the liquor bottles that were in them! :bounce:

I beat myself up all the time. :eyes:

[Maddy McCall]

69. Save the liquor...that's what I always say!

Dang...sounds like that pinch hurt! Are you ok??

:hug:

[skygazer]

73. Oh, I'm fine, thanks

Hazards of the job and all. The pinch hurt when I did it but is just ugly now. And I'm putting some liquor on the inside to make up for the stuff that bashed me on the outside. So it's all good. :hi:

[Kali]

72. goddam gophers

Walking with a basket of laundry, not watching. Step in hole. weeee! Where'd that patch of gravity come from?

I fall down a lot. Have always been a total doofus. The only thing I have ever been remotley "graceful" at is riding a horse, and you better beleive I have taken spills from doing that too!

[last_texas_dem]

74. The last one I can think of

was a couple of years ago. I was getting ready to sit down in this flimsy plastic chair at a campaign office where I was working. Apparently, the movement from me walking by had caused it to fall over behind me without my knowledge. So I sat down, while holding a plate of food, and landed pretty hard on the floor. It wasn't too bad; I just had the air knocked out of me for a few seconds and my butt hurt for the next couple of days. (And I had to get a new plate and clean up the mess from the food that I had flying everywhere!) But it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as it could have been 'cause I was working with a bunch of nice people who all seemed worried about me and kept asking me if I was alright; I found it amazing that no one laughed or picked on me about it as I'm sure it was a pretty goofy sight to see.

In the last couple of years I've had a couple of falls or slides going up or down stairs but I've managed to catch myself pretty quickly and avoided any injury.

I'm sorry about your fall, but I'm glad that it wasn't worse. And that's cool your kid helped take care of you without sneaking a peek at his presents! :-)

[Broken_Hero]

75. December of 2002, and I fell three times in a row...

I was up in Kansas, and an ice storm just hit...I fell first, by a fire hydrant...got up quicker than hell, and then took another step...fell flat on my back...popped right back up...took two more steps, and fell flat on my back again...I was figuring I might have to crawl to the dorm...but I got up and made it in safely.

[u4ic]

76. The last one I recall

was about 9 years ago, when I flipped on a very icy parking lot and broke my wrist.

That isn't because I haven't had one since, just that I'm the type who basically needs their entrails hanging out before noticing something's wrong. If I don't break anything, I just dust off and forget about it. It comes from years of riding, I guess, where I had some pretty spectacular falls, albeit being very lucky I only broke my nose during all that time (that time I landed on my nose...). If you fall off, you just get back on your horse and keep on going.

I tend to have lots of scrapes and bruises and cuts and have no clue where I get them. :silly:

I hope you feel better soon, Maddy. :pals:

[auntAgonist]

77. Mid March 2005

I fell down the stairs. I don't remember it happening though. I was ill, didn't know just how ill I was, I blacked out momentarily and banged up my right leg quite badly. I STILL have a slight bump and a large bruise below the knee. Because of my blacking out so much, yes it had happened before, the Dr ran some blood tests and found me to be malnourished and dehydrated. :yoiks: He admitted me to hospital where I stayed for almost two weeks on IV feedings. (not fun at all). He also aspirated the hematoma that was on my leg to remove the blood so the swelling might go down. He did that 4 times and once he hit the bone with the needle :cry: owie. My leg was almost black from the knee down, all around and even the sole of my foot and underside of my toes were bruised.
Anyway, the fall down the stairs could have been a lot worse, we'd just renovated and changed the configuration of the staircase from 13 steps straight down to a staircase with 5 down to a landing and five more to the main floor .. a return I think it's called. So, I only fell the first 5 steps.

busted my butt good I did.

aA

[ChoralScholar]

78. About 4 months ago.

I have a condition called 'cough syncope' where, if I cough (or vomit) too much, and can't get my breath, my blood pressure bottoms out and I pass out. I don't even know it's coming. It's happened 4 times, and here is the most recent.

I was taking the dogs outside for their evening potty, and I stepped off the back porch wrong and heard a 'SNAP' in my ankle. I hobbled back inside and sat down on the bed. The pain was so excruciating that I hobbled back outside to vomit off the back stairs. I heaved 3 or 4 times. The last thing I remember thinking was 'I think it's almost over'. I woke up in the yard, with my wife over me - saying "Thomas, honey, do you know where you are?"

I opened my eyes and saw the neighbors dog and trampoline, and said "I guess I'm laying in the yard but, I don't know why."

She filled me in. I felt a lot better, but that was scary.

[hedgehog]

79. I didn't really bust anything, but I did a spectacular swan dive off the

porch last summer. I was standing on a chair, hanging plants and I reached out just a bit too far trying to get the planter on the hook. The chair started to go over, there was nothing to grab , so I ended up jumping so as to land on the crushed stone driveway in preference to the sidewalk. I cut my knees and since I am a bleeder I scared my kids. I said to them - See, that's why you should use a step ladder!

My favorite accident - the time I was night supervisor in a warehouse and someone put a staple through his thumb at 3 AM. He ran up to the office to get help and was waving his hand all over because of the pain. It wasn't a bad cut, but it bled like crazy. He just got a bandaid put on it at the urgent care center, but we spent three hours wiping up droplets of blood with the hazardous materials team!