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Location: Right now? | OK, about a month ago I fell and almost killed myself when I hit my head against a beam in my basement. My eye and cheekbone are still purple.
Then, a few days ago, I tripped over my Fender Acousta-Sonic amplifier and once again almost knocked myself out ... superstition says these things happens in "threes", right?
Well, last night, I was standing in my kitchen, minding my own business, turned around, and the next thing I knew I was flat on my back, dazed and wondering if a poltergeist had just come through the house and knocked me down!
I sprained my left hand and most of the fingers on it, and I must have landed on my left hip before I went down because my entire lower back and @ss are killing me! I twisted the ankle of the only foot that wasn't hurting from the last two incidents, and my black eye now has a match!
I rarely drink, I am not bipolar or schizophrenic, and I (sort of) eat healthy. I've just had a physical, so to the best of my knowledge, I have no disease or affliction that might cause such incidents. I've never been clumsy before.
I admit I was a little hyper-excited about Povation scoring that lovely, blingy CA the other night, but I wasn't even thinking about THAT at the time of the um, "accident". To top it off, just before the incident, I ran over the telephone wire with the vacuum cleaner and cut it in half ... I guess the 'curse' doesn't want me to be able to call an ambulance if need be ... my cell's in the car!
So, maybe someone's got a red-headed voo doo doll out there with my name on it? Please, whatever it was I did to offend you, I'M SORRY, OK???
Ouch ... I'm typing with one hand, so please excuse any errors. Be careful .... "IT" is out there!
  
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Location: Right now? | Sorry, gang ... I meant to post this in the "General" forum ... gotta banged brain, so please excuse the error ... btw, I was ALONE when the last two incidents happened, even though I now can't leave the house (which I don't dare do anyway, all things considered) because I look like a victim of domestic abuse!
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Oh Willa, I'm so sorry! I had a run of falls like that back in the 80's. In a period of about two months I slipped on ice and broke my tailbone, tripped over a tire on someone's lawn and actually did an end-over-end, landing flat on my still sore back, tripped over a cane someone had left leaning against a table, and one time I even tripped over a seam in the floor! (By then I was so nervous I saw the seam out of my paripheral vision and was sure there was something there trying to trip me.)
I went through another bout like that a few years ago. That time the fall on the ice chipped one of my vertabrae, and the next one hyperextended my knee. There was no third fall at that time.
I hope you can stay on your feet (pun intended) and start feeling better soon. I know that no matter how it hurts, the worst part is the left hand. Here's hoping you're back to playing all of those beautiful guitars soon. AND BE CAREFUL!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I broke my left arm a couple times when I was in my 40s. Until then I never had a broken bone other than a toe and ribs. I asked my orthopod whether my bones were getting brittle in my old age and he said laughed and said I was just getting clumsy in my old age. I'm much older now.
For the second time in a year, my right shoulder has been causing me pain. I can't find a cause, but it might be due to poor guitar technique. Anyway, I complained about it effecting my guitar playing and SWMBO suggested I just switch hands and turn the guitar over, "or would the strings be upside down." 17 guitars out in the open and she's never noticed that the strings aren't all the same.
My analogy, which I was too dumbfounded to think of at an appropriate time, was that she should turn the computer keyboard around and try typing backwards. |
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Location: Right now? | Geez, Alison, YOU WIN. Poor baby! My injuries don't compare, but I'd better watch what I say, um, write ...
Mark, ONLY broken ribs and a broken toe? OUCH, OUCH, OUCH!!! Playing the guitar was probably, actually, good physical therapy for you. My shoulder hurts when I play the deep bowls too, but I play them till I can't stand it anymore. I really messed up my fingers, but none of them are broken ... I just can't play without pain, but I'm going to try to anyway, because I'm hoping the extra circulation will help them heal faster. I can't believe my black eyes though. Fer cryin' out loud! Your anology for your wife was a good one! I guess she's not "instrumentally inclined", huh? I guess we are just all getting old ... thank God there are no stories out there (yet) of broken hips ... a real old geezer's classic injury!
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With all you have going on, it's probably just a lack of attention of your physical environment due to your mental activities.
I've noticed that there are times when I'm more susceptible to 'accidents' than normal. I usually find that my mind is struggling with difficult issues which attenuates my situational awareness.
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Location: NW Washington State | For best results, postings in the For Sale section should include pictures.
I'll have to give some thought to the red-headed voodoo doll. Do they make red-headed wives allow more guitars and amplifiers in the house?
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Do you need a couple of "Good Luck" TRCs? |
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Location: Right now? | Damon, thank you for that link. I have a few people in mind, like my ex husband and his girlfriend.
Bill, thank you for your sympathy, darlin'. This was FREE.
Steve, I will indulge your sadism, but just this once. Here ya go ... This photo is from the basement fall. This is all I'm showing! Obviously, I couldn't see very well, so the photo's pretty blurry ... this one was taken around day 20 after the first incident. Uhhh so much for well-groomed, or pretty, lady-like eyebrows. It still hurts to the touch, so I will continue to look like a cave woman for a while longer.
See why I haven't left the house? Is there a doctor in the house, because I have a question:(Texas Doc (Tom), where are you?)? Is my real eyelid every going to re-appear? Reads like a preview from "As the Stomach Turns" ...
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Location: Ireland | Sorry to hear about all the spills. Suggest you use the experience and resulting discomfort and pain to pen/strum a few 'blues' tunes ;) Or even a Country tune - the usually start with opening lines like " I got out bed and fell over the dog, now its not only my heart thats achinnnnng".
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by WillaMuse:
This photo... Oh my gawd, Willa...
That looks so much like an awesome nebula I saw once, captured by the Hubble, except for the eyeball!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | For those of us with aches, when Adrian Legg was here, I asked him why he doesn't use an Adamas anymore. He said he loved them, but either his back or his shoulder (I forgot which) couldn't handle the big bowl, so he had an electric made.
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Location: NW Washington State | Originally posted by WillaMuse:
Steve, I will indulge your sadism, but just this once. Here ya go ... This photo is from the basement fall. This is all I'm showing! Yikes! I promise never to be a sadistic voyeur again. Wait a minute... what forum is this? Hope you are bruise-free soon and post only guitar pictures in the future.
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Location: Right now? | Suggest you use the experience and resulting discomfort and pain to pen/strum a few 'blues' tunes Or even a Country tune - the usually start with opening lines like " I got out bed and fell over the dog, now its not only my heart thats achinnnnng".
Great advice, Patsy, and on topic, too!
Steve ... it's OK ... I've always wondered what Stevie Wonder's eyes look like, so I'm just as guilty ... as for "what forum is this?", does it help if I write that I was holding an Ovation when this photo was taken?
Hell, I WAS holding an Ovation when I fell over the amp. That's how I got hurt; I was trying to protect the guitar from hitting the floor so I sacrificed myself instead ... DUH.
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A: Nothing! They didn't listen the first two times!
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Somebody out there surely does have a voodoo doll hard at work. This week I finished the taxes in preparation for college financial aid applications. First, we owe thousands to the IRS (more than we've already paid). Second, the wife's employer may not make payroll this week. Third, we get the private school tuition notice for next year and they've increased tuition and moved the due date up a month sooner. Fourth, one car suddenly won't run over 10mph. Fifth, college tuition is due for the eldest.
I was starting to warm up the credit card but reality has put a hold on that for the time being. It's been a heck of a week, but at least I don't have a pair of black eyes. |
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Hope you're getting better each day. In the meantime, they say laughter is the best medicine. :p :) |
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Location: Right now? | Q: What do you tell a guitar player with two black eyes?
A: Nothing! They didn't listen the first two times!
HA HA HA .... (ouch) ha.
Willa, flying is easy, it's those landings you have to watch. Be careful.
That's DEFINITELY the part I got wrong. :(
Hmmm... good luck TRC's ... once again, an ingenious idea from the great craftsman ~ you could do zodiac signs too, Mike! |
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Location: Right now? | but at least I don't have a pair of black eyes.
Yet.
Al, Miles, whoever, thank you for moving this to the General Posting Forum.
My eye is healing slowly and more strangely as the weeks pass. Think the forum is 'affecting' me? Be very careful, people:
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| Willa, sorry to hear about your fall. I had a bad fall last January and still feel the effects from time to time.
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Location: Right now? | I'll give ya tree-fiddy for the eye
darkbar, I'm much more expensive than THAT, honey, and until this damn bruising goes away, I um, need to hide in a um, dark ... bar ... but I don't ... can't ... drink ... it makes me STOOPID.
That looks so much like an awesome nebula I saw once, captured by the Hubble
Iffy, I agree ... and I think I can see some planets, and definitely SATURN.
I wuv you, too.
I've had one of those, so I don't need to buy it, but someone will be very happy with it.
Well, thanks, TJ ... at least now I know you're not the one with the voo doo doll!
:cool: <~ yeah, to cover the two black eyes
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Count our blessings. We just learned that our daughter was in a building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake this afternoon. No word other than she was pulled from the rubble by a local and taken to the American embassy, possibly with a broken arm, plus cuts and bruises. Hope she can still come home Thursday, but so far there is no phone contact. She doesn't know about any of the friends she was with, working in an orphanage, and one of her friends' parents called and they have not heard from their daughter. I'll sit by the phone and keep watching CNN. |
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Location: Right now? | Oh, my goodness, Mark. This is absolutely horrible news; you and your daughter are most definitely in my thoughts and prayers as well as all the other people involved in such a horrible situation, including of course, her friends.
I'm putting CNN on now.
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Location: Ontario Canada | Hello Willa,
I am sorry to read about your unfortunate tumbles, I hope you will not have another ever again. It is certainly a big shock whenever the bones break. I have brittle bones (osteoporosis)
rarely found in males but I didn't eat too well as an infant and kid growing up. Doc said probably lack of milk and calcium etc. I have been getting more unsteady on my feet in recent years so I shuffle along instead of stepping out briskly as I used to do. I really look around me before I move. I fell three times last summer before I cleaned up my den/spaghetti junction as my wife calls it. Lucky me no broken hip. Your looks will be back to normal in no time. You need a little chuckle tonight Willa. Here it is.
"My face I don't mind it.
For I am behind it.
'Tis the people out there.
Who get the scare."
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Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Count our blessings. We just learned that our daughter was in a building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake this afternoon. No word other than she was pulled from the rubble by a local and taken to the American embassy, possibly with a broken arm, plus cuts and bruises. Hope she can still come home Thursday, but so far there is no phone contact. She doesn't know about any of the friends she was with, working in an orphanage, and one of her friends' parents called and they have not heard from their daughter. I'll sit by the phone and keep watching CNN. Hello Mark,
I am sorry for the anxiety you are having, I am so slow at typing that my reply to Willa was not placed earlier. Good luck and you are in my thoughts at this time.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Just being funny but now that it got moved over to this side it doesn't make that much sence.
They say these things come in threes.
A friend Darren, his brother died last week, he was 53.
Charley Kelly,52, a friend on the island here died yesterday of a massive heart attack.
And today Joe, from the Florida House called and said he was shutting it down. Not sure if that's the third or not......hope so. It's too bad, I had a good song for the singer songwriter next week. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Rachel had a broken arm, treated by a doctor at the embassey. Don't know which arm or how bad, but it may effect her grad school in physical therapy, which was supposed to start back up next week. I think she'll get the 87C as soon as she gets back into playing shape. Just for reference, she's depicted in Dave's OFC Calendar for sale thread, on the right side of the 2001 Collector, playing it, at the 2006 NW Gathering. Some relief for us, but her friend's parents still haven't heard anything. They have been calling their daughter's cell phone, but it just rings with no answer. Rachel didn't take a cell down there, so we still haven't heard from her, but we get occasional updates from the embassey. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Jeez Willa. I would say watch where you're walking but, ... YOU CAN'T SEE!!!
Seriously, wishing for a speedy recovery from the bumps & bruises.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | She called. Seven stories up when the building collapsed into a pile of rubble. She fell 7 floors, but with the help of 3 guys, she got out. She doesn't know if any of her friends survived. It's doubtful, and a miracle she made it with a couple fractures and a huge gash on her face.
Willa, it sounds like her facial wound will make yours look pretty by comparison. She's OK, so pray for her friends, their families and everyone else over there. |
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Just kidding!!! Hey, Willa! You can rest easy now... you've done your quota of self-inflicted disasters for the rest of your life!
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Location: Newington, CT | Mark, that's an incredible story! Thank goodness she's ok! Thoughts and prayers are with you, her and all the others in Haiti. Sad, sad day yesterday. |
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Location: Right now? | Mark, I'm so glad she is OK and so sorry for the people injured. I pray they find her friends alive and unharmed. My 'stuff' isn't remotely comparable.
Life is so strange and so precious. As Schroeder wrote, I can't imagine what her friend's parents are going through.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Mark, I am so thankful your daughter is ok...we have a United Methodist compound there and it sustained some damage and from the few messages we have heard from our friends there, some are unhurt but we do have a number missing...Port au Prince is devestated from their reports...Please folks, keep the Haitians and all the folks there in your thoughts and prayers... |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Glad your daughter is ok, Mark. Our thoughts go out to the others, including her friends, that may not have been so lucky. All I can say is "Ditto!" They're all in my prayers. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark,
For once, I don't know what to say that hasn't already been posted both in concern, prayers, and happiness that she has been hurt but will be ok.
I hope that her friends will be found and be okay.
Hopefully, this country will do more than send an assessment team immediately. I know the 'community' of the US will assist in fundraising. My praise to Canada who has already pledged $5 million whereas the European Commission, in its entirety, has only pledged $4.3 million. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Long night, but at least we got to talk to her a couple times. I wasn't coherent enough at 4 this morning to ask basic questions. We heard several hours ago that people had talked to one of the 4 kids she was working with, who was still trapped, but the other 2, including her good friend, hadn't been heard from. As Schroeder said, their parents must be going through hell.
They will be trying to locate American survivors that she was working with and will medivac them out, but no estimate of when. Meanwhile, she waits at the embassy.
I don't want to turn this into a Haiti news site, so, I'll just sign off and maybe do a final when she gets back. Thanks for all the hopes and prayers. |
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| Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Mark,
For once, I don't know what to say that hasn't already been posted both in concern, prayers, and happiness that she has been hurt but will be ok.
I hope that her friends will be found and be okay.
Hopefully, this country will do more than send an assessment team immediately. I know the 'community' of the US will assist in fundraising. My praise to Canada who has already pledged $5 million whereas the European Commission, in its entirety, has only pledged $4.3 million. A posting born of ignorance and at the wrong time in the wrong place.
The European Commission is the administrative arm of The European Parliament. Whatever it does out of its budget has to be justified to member states. It cannot spend money voted to anti-terrorist programmes or agriculture or whatever to anything else. The vast majority of help will be given by individual countries not by a central administration.
And given they they had pledged $4.3million from their emergency fund it would seem to my mathematically challenged mind to be more than nothing.
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| Hate to act like a Doctor here , Hell I don't know shit about medicine but you never told us why you fell in the kitchen. ?? If it was not a poltergist and there is no voodoo dolls, then you might have a problem in the old brain box from all the head bangs you have just had. Hopefully without sounding all dramatic...that trouble can kill you and its hard to diagnose.
Did you just black out.?? Again..... don't listen to me but if you have no idea why you collapsed this cold be serious.
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Thank you for your concern ... seriously! All kidding aside, I agree, and when I fell in the basement, I really, really did take a hard blow. I didn't want anyone fainting, that is why I didn't post photos from the first day. I was unrecognizable. My face is still swollen and my eye hurts. I did go to the doctor who said I had a mild concussion. That was before Christmas, and I'm scheduled for a recheck next week. I'm getting cabin fever on top of everything else.
All my very best hopes and wishes right now are for Mark's daughter, her friends and the other unfortunates involved in that horrible earthquake.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Boys, cool it. Does it matter who gives the most money? SWMBO will be flying to Miami tomorrow to pick her up. If G8r Bowl was closer to Miami, I'd fly down and spend the weekend with you guys.
Someone at Gtmo bought Rachel some underwear and a sweatsuit and Blue Cross will fly her to a hospital in Miami. Sounds like she'll spend another night in a hospital.
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Location: Tennessee | I'll bet the powers that be have a lot on their plate. Red Cross is probably throwing everything they have in the area at the disaster areas. Being at Gitmo isn't the worst thing for her, she's in a safe place, it's a pretty big operation, with medical personnel, but they need to get the logistics caught up to the situation. Having the media aware of your situation is also a very good thing. She'll be stateside soon. And if it was my daughter, I'd want her back right now.
Did the Wolf crew make you put on makeup? I would have liked to have seen the segment.
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Location: SoCal | Mark, Rachel is now safe and out of harm's way. She is being taken care of at an established facility and has access to the best medical care currently in that region.
Please keep your faith in those powers that be. They were with her, keeping her safe seven stories up as that building collapsed into a pile of rubble under and around her. They stayed with her, got her out of the rubble, got her to the safety of the embassy, and got her off the island. Once her safety was assured, her guardian angel went back to help others. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Mark,
Other than your in hands, she is in the best hands that our resources can provide at this time. The military at Gitmo will provide her the best medical care, food and lodgings outside of your arms.
Just keep in mind that you know where she is: she's alive, safe and in goods hands. May you and yours find comfort in that!
PLEASE, keep us updated!!!
Prayerfully,
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Location: Upper Left USA | What started as an off topic post has taken more than the normal turns and twists and I think its time to stop the discussion here and take it up in other venues.
My heart goes out to Mark and his family as they go through a very difficult trial, one I would never want to endure.
I think it's time to move away from this thread.
This area had significant problems and now has been turned upside down and shaken. Each of us should continue to pray and help out as we see fit and you won't have to look far to find a way.
Mark emailed me and I see that one of Rachel's coworkers in the building is a local girl (I probably knew her in Youth Group with my daughter) and she is still missing.
Apparently Haiti is not a million miles away as it touches us and we realize how connected and fragile we are.
Words are not sufficient my Brother. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | +1 to Mwoody
Mark, if you would like, please keep me in the loop via eMail and I would be happy to update an informational post that would be locked from response.
We are all concerned and worried, and although this started slightly "off-topic" it can certainly be argued that such a major event affects all of us as members of the group.
As MWoody so clearly states, our concerns have been voiced, but I have no confidence that this thread will remain focused (non ever do) and it will just serve to be thrown in Al's and My face at some future date with a "well you let them talk about that" unfairness accusation.
So please keep us informed, and if you'd like me to make any announcements of information or updates you receive, I would be more than happy to. |
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Waaay off topic: So ... who's got the voo doo doll?