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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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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | :eek: Day-um Willa...!!!
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.
Not a great way to start the new year. Here's hoping that this is the end of your negative medical reports!  |
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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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Location: Upper Left USA | Willa,
Do you need a couple of "Good Luck" TRCs? |
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Location: Jet City | You know in this day and age you can just do all your voodoo electronically...
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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!
It doesn't matter what ya look like; we still luv ya, lady. Here's to your quick recovery!!!  |
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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.
My physical therapist said playing guitar was good therapy for my left arm and wrist muscles. That part's fine, but the right shoulder is giving me fits. |
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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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Location: South of most, North of few | I've had one of those, so I don't need to buy it, but someone will be very happy with it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Q: What do you tell a guitar player with two black eyes?
A: Nothing! They didn't listen the first two times!
Willa, flying is easy, it's those landings you have to watch. Be careful. |
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Location: Utah | Ouch, Willa!
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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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Maybe someone's got a voodoo typewriter!
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: Upper Left USA | I'll surprise you... can you PM a mailing address or send an Owl? |
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Location: Vernon CT | Damn Willa!!! I think you're done for a Looooong Time! :eek: :) Things gotta get better! |
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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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Waaay off topic: So ... who's got the voo doo doll?
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