Thread: I had a fall yesterday - was stuck getting up again.

Hmm,thats no good

My mother carries a device around her neck that alerts someone,i don't know how it works.

If you need to know,i can find out.

No good at all Mario. I hope the old body isn’t too bruised by the experience.

Carrying your mobile is a good idea. I’m starting to do the same when doing physical jobs around home as a safety precaution.

cheers

Steve

Originally Posted by scarry

Hmm,thats no good

My mother carries a device around her neck that alerts someone,i don't know how it works.

If you need to know,i can find out.

they are part of the medic alert items and detect falls. Been trying to talk a mate into getting one as his blood pressure drops if he gets up to quick, normally he just sits back down but has woke up a couple times on the floor. Always a worry he will hit his head in such a case. But like all of us stubborn old farts, ya can only talk about such things and only when people are ready will they accept the help
Take care Mario
cheers
blaze

I well know the feeling. I was stuck under the County when my back problem decided to have a rather unfunny joke with me. I had to somehow roll over onto my front and use elbows and toes to creep out from under. Then came the problem of getting upright. After what seemed like a lifetime of loudly calling out my wife decided that the noise may have indicated a problem. She called out from upstairs "what are you yelling about. Do you need help?"

About a fortnight ago I was in a similar situation. I had gone up to the top of the hill above the house at the request of RFS to look for smoke (there was none), and on the way back, climbing through the house yard fence, my foot caught on the fence and I fell heavily onto rock. I was carrying my glasses and phone in right hand and binoculars in my left - and none of these were damaged.

But my left knee and elbow, and the outside of my right hand took the brunt of it. As the rock sloped so I was head down, I could not easily get up. Having my grandchildren here, and only being twenty feet from the house, I yelled, and eventually the 17yo came out and helped me up.

The hand and elbow are just about healed, but the knee is still playing up.

Lesson - don't climb through fences with your hands full!

The latest Apple Watch is a good solution.
78 year old fit bloke in my Probus club fell over in his kitchen. Line phone was out due to lightning strike. Took him 3 hours to crawl to his mobile.
He lives alone so his daughter bought him an Apple Watch.
apparenly nobody wears the neck thing as they are a nuisance.

BTW “ had a fall “ is patronising talk used by aged care nurses. You bloody fell over. There is no disgrace in that! If any youngish woman ever says that to me I will reply “ yes dearie I fell over”
regards Philip A

Hi,
I was pulling garden rubbish out of the trailer at the tip using a long tyned potato hoe.
Something in the load let go unexpectedly and I miss stepped, landing on my back and somewhat winded.
No worries I thinks, there's blokes either side of me if I really need assistance, so I waited a bit to get my breath back and expecting to lookup to some kindly concerned faces any second now.
Nope!
They both drove off, leaving me lying there.
I had only been retired a week or so. I didn't think I was that disposable.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
I was pulling garden rubbish out of the trailer at the tip using a long tyned potato hoe.
Something in the load let go unexpectedly and I miss stepped, landing on my back and somewhat winded.
No worries I thinks, there's blokes either side of me if I really need assistance, so I waited a bit to get my breath back and expecting to lookup to some kindly concerned faces any second now.
Nope!
They both drove off, leaving me lying there.
I had only been retired a week or so. I didn't think I was that disposable.
Cheers

Crickey thay sux, that's a bit sad if they had seen you fall.