Oh golly gosh,that hurt!

[rovers90]

Or words to thar effect! I decided as it was a lovely bright day yesterday I would visit a few villages to post leaflets advertising my fledgling firewood business. On the third village I was about to post my second last leaflet when I walked down a clear drive, passed the parked car and on to a sheet of ice. No sooner had I thought "Be careful sonny jim" then I was lying on my left side.

 

Could not move my left arm but everything else seemed to work fine. Managed to get on my feet, was in a state of shock, nausious, etc managed to walk twenty yards to the Land Rover and drag myself in. Thought I would be okay in ten minutes but wasn't. Telephoned my friend who lives locally and luckily was at home so he and his wife came to collect me and my car.

 

Long story short, dislocated my left shoulder, got it put back in last night (great drugs - knocked me out for about an hour so felt nothing and could not tell what they did!), visited fractures department this morning, have to keep arm in a sling for two weeks, the hospital had left the needle and drip in my right arm last night so was pleased to get that out! So no driving means no log deliveries or splitting. Luckily I have only recently started so have not been very busy.

 

I would just like to say a big thank you to my friends Ian and Helen who dropped everthing yesterday and ferried me from hospital to hospital until my wife could get to me. (taken ages to type this with one hand!!!)

 

So take care everybody when you are out and about, the A & E depts were full of people who had fallen.

[Stephen Blair]

heal quick mate, it is so easy done.

[likeitorlumpit]

do the physio

don't cheat yourself:sneaky2:

[IanBrown]

I did a similar thing and dislocated my shoulder, make sure you do the physio and rest it well.

When they put my shoulder back in it felt fine after and I decided to just carry on as normal, did it on a friday, went clay pigeon shooting on sunday and was banging fence posts in on monday but a couple of months later i picked up a fence post on my shoulder and set off walking and the shoulder just fell out of joint no warning or pain just fell out and I had to go back to hospital, another couple of months later and i was climbing onto a trailer to unload at a hire shop and same thing it just fell out of socket and i was stuck at the hire place, then ended up having surgery on it and 3 months off work not being able to move my arm, all becasue i didn't leave it to heal properly when i first did it.

[Dave Martin]

Thats pretty rubbish for you `Rover 90` just as you should be hitting your busiest month ... hope you find someone to cover deliveries whilst you heal.

[mr kipling]

As said before do the physio did my shoulder snowboarding didnt rest it or do the exercise and had a nagging pain for years..

[ad15]

do the physio

don't cheat yourself:sneaky2:

 

what he says..

[rovers90]

Thank you for all the messages of support guys, really picked my spirits up when I just realised I cannot go pheasant shooting on Saturday. Ironically, I have just had confirmation through I managed to gain a place on a subsidised emergency first aid at work course!

 

Will certainly follow the quacks advice and do whatever they tell me.

[scottythepinetree]

Similar thing happened to me on Sunday. Out walking the dogs in the sand dunes when I saw a path down a hill slick with ice. Thought to myself "ooh that looks like fun!". Bang splat! Nothing broken luckily enough. Bruised ribs, shoulder, and behind. Keep forgetting I'm not 18 anymore. Long may it continue!

[armchairarborist]

theres a load of people falling at the mo, we saw an old guy proper slap and banged his head on the road lastweek:thumbdown:, the missus rang me two days ago from sainsburys to tell me she'd falled on the ice and landed on two bags of bottles on the way to the bottlebank, she had broken a couple of bottles and was on the way to A+E, xrays and stuff later and she is all bruised and still not able to drive:thumbdown:, i don't mind the stuff, its usually me making a slide across the carpark:thumbup: