Have you ever fallen on ice?
Author: Carol anne
I am 40 years young. I'm blind and I have dissociative identity disorder, I also have complex PTSD. I blog about my life with these disorders. I live in Ireland. View all posts by Carol anne
Carol Anne‘s question of the day
Have you ever fallen on ice?
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We used to play ice hockey on this pond in the woods behind my neighborhood. There were about eight of us we all had skates and hockey sticks. The pond was perfect for hockey as it had two natural goals existing, one at each end. They were just tree stumps located just off the ice, but for us they were goals. I had the puck and I had a breakaway goal (situation where there was no defending players between me and the goal) and as I drew back my stick to take my shot, this kid hooked me (used his stick to trip me). The physics of this event seem about as likely as threading a needle simply by throwing string at it, but somehow his stick found its way inside my right skate blade. This caused me to fall forward and my neck landed on the right tree stump which was part of the goal. I laid on the ground in pain, but when I finally got up, I had this giant scar all across my neck and I was not able to talk for several days. It looked like someone sewed my head on like the Frankenstein monster.
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Ouch! That must’ve hurt a lot Jim!
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Yes, it did, but what hurt more was me not being able to talk for a few days.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t enjoy that at all 😉
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Yes, I live in the midwestern US, where it freezes each winter. I really couldn’t count the number of times I’ve landed on my @%#! Walking gingerly in slippery areas, planting the feet flat carefully helps a bit?
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I’ve been lucky, I haven’t fallen on ice yet 💙
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Touch wood, hope you don’t ever! You must be good at walking carefully.
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Oh no, I’m not good at it it’s just that I don’t go out when it’s icy 💟💟
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Caution is very wise!
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I think so. 🙂
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I’ve fallen on the ice many, many times, and I always seem to land on some vulnerable body part (hip, shoulder, etc. ). Miraculously, I have never gotten anything worse than bruises from any of those falls. In fact, at 68 years old I had come to think of myself as essentially unbreakable… until last November anyway, when I tripped on my own feet (indoors), and landed the wrong way and broke my left foot. So much for my supposed unbreakability…
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Oh no broken foot doesn’t sound like fun to me. But I am glad you never broke anything when you fell on the ice. 💖💖
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Several times. I grew up in snowy and icy weather in Minnesota. Although the worst time, I was 27 or 28 and lived in Denver Colorado, I fell on a small patch of ice and broke two bones in my left foot.
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Oh my goodness, I would think that would put you out of action for a long time 😊
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I lived on a third story apartment then without an elevator. 😀
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Oh my, that was really challenging 🤣😁
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Yes and it didn’t result in injury of course I was much younger😄
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Oh Cheryl, I’m so happy you didn’t get injured when you fell 🤣🙏😁
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