I am a bit stiff but don't think there's anything seriously wrong. As I tweeted when I got home, "Good gloves and solid pants warm pants are an important part of winter safety, especially when the sidewalks aren't cleared properly. I'm fine, the clothes are intact. #ice thank you @LLBean for still making jeans out of good denim."
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adrian_turtle's place, and headed out this afternoon to run assorted errands. On my way in last night, I had used my boot to scrape some bits of ice off the entryway (it was an odd diamond pattern, as if someone had driven a vehicle over a bit of snow), because what was easy in daylight with the temperature below freezing would likely be difficult later. Indeed, that helped me get safely back to Mass Ave (though the sidewalk on her street was icier); lulled by that, I got distracted walking the rest of the way to the bus stop, fell, and landed on my hands and knees.
I decided that since my gloves and pants were still intact and my palms looked fine, I would keep going. In due course, I bought spices (exchanging one because I had grabbed the wrong thing last week, filled a prescription, soothed myself with hot chocolate, got interesting groceries at Trader Joe's, and went back to Adrian's briefly to hand over her part of the purchases. Thence home, where I took my pants and long underwear off.
It turns out that I not only bruised both knees (which was immediately obvious), I skinned them slightly (no blood), and my left palm is a little tender. This means that instead of doing all my hip PT stuff, I did most of the stretches (my left knee was stiff enough that I did one only with the right leg—I'm doing the same rehab stuff for both hips) and only one of the exercises. The physical therapist has told me that it's okay to skip days if I need to (though try to do at least the stretches every day) but that I shouldn't skip two days in a row. Under the circumstances, I'm not doing the shoulder or miscellaneous exercises either: those I do either standing, or lying down with my knees bent.
It is probably worth noting that my reaction to falling and hurting myself seems to include a strong desire to continue with whatever plans/activity I was engaged in when I fell. In this case, I think that was a reasonable decision, but it hasn't always been.
I spent last night at
adrian_turtle's place, and headed out this afternoon to run assorted errands. On my way in last night, I had used my boot to scrape some bits of ice off the entryway (it was an odd diamond pattern, as if someone had driven a vehicle over a bit of snow), because what was easy in daylight with the temperature below freezing would likely be difficult later. Indeed, that helped me get safely back to Mass Ave (though the sidewalk on her street was icier); lulled by that, I got distracted walking the rest of the way to the bus stop, fell, and landed on my hands and knees. I decided that since my gloves and pants were still intact and my palms looked fine, I would keep going. In due course, I bought spices (exchanging one because I had grabbed the wrong thing last week, filled a prescription, soothed myself with hot chocolate, got interesting groceries at Trader Joe's, and went back to Adrian's briefly to hand over her part of the purchases. Thence home, where I took my pants and long underwear off.
It turns out that I not only bruised both knees (which was immediately obvious), I skinned them slightly (no blood), and my left palm is a little tender. This means that instead of doing all my hip PT stuff, I did most of the stretches (my left knee was stiff enough that I did one only with the right leg—I'm doing the same rehab stuff for both hips) and only one of the exercises. The physical therapist has told me that it's okay to skip days if I need to (though try to do at least the stretches every day) but that I shouldn't skip two days in a row. Under the circumstances, I'm not doing the shoulder or miscellaneous exercises either: those I do either standing, or lying down with my knees bent.
It is probably worth noting that my reaction to falling and hurting myself seems to include a strong desire to continue with whatever plans/activity I was engaged in when I fell. In this case, I think that was a reasonable decision, but it hasn't always been.
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