Aren't antiques fragile...

[swee'pea99]

Thanks for all good wishes. Um, I don't know what it's called - he did tell me, but it was at least one really long word, possibly two, but it's the one that ends up being your little toe, on the outside of your foot. This is the full pic:

That bulge is the 'knob' on the outside of your foot; the fracture is the slight horizontal line just below halfway up.

 

[Beebo]

So which bit did you bust on that Alpine Descent

It was on Le Col de Escaliers.
a treacherous decent with at least 15 vertical sections followed by 15 plateau.

 

[Drago]

My ex got up for a pee in the middle of the night. Some time later she came round on the bathroom floor with a head wound, probable concussion, and a chunk of the wash basin lying on the floor next to her!

(She had blacked out for some reason(s) unknown, and had headbutted the wash basin on her fall to the floor.)

Not disimilar to my mishap. I fumbled the toothbrush and dropped it, and without thinking bent forward to pick it up and face butted the edge of the wash basin,

 

[PeteXXX]

Can you get those clogs in SPD?

BTW GWS

 

[ColinJ]

Not disimilar to my mishap. I fumbled the toothbrush and dropped it, and without thinking bent forward to pick it up and face butted the edge of the wash basin,

Ouch!

My sister had bought a second buy-to-let in Todmorden and I was helping her get it ready for her first tenant. The kitchen had been reconfigured and one of the many changes was that the overhead cupboard in the photo below had been moved from the other end of the kitchen. Then she'd had fittings put in for the new washing machine that she had bought for the property.

I pulled the washing machine out, connected it, then pushed it back in. I went to stand up, completely forgetting that there was now a cupboard above my head! I hit it so hard that my sister screamed in shock, and my legs buckled beneath me.

I felt really groggy, and I'm sure that I was concussed. (It could have been worse - being on warfarin, there is an increased risk of a blow to the head causing a bleed on the brain!)

The next day, THIS happened, and I'm sure that it was no coincidence...

 

[Reynard]

Ouch! Mend quickly xxx

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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Ouch! Mend quickly xxx

 

[classic33]

Does it affect the value of the "antique"?

 

[presta]

My ex got up for a pee in the middle of the night. Some time later she came round on the bathroom floor with a head wound, probable concussion, and a chunk of the wash basin lying on the floor next to her!

(She had blacked out for some reason(s) unknown, and had headbutted the wash basin on her fall to the floor.)

The woman three doors up the road from me went sleepwalking one night. She had never sleepwalked in her life before, so the first thing she knew about it was when she woke up at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck and a broken back. There was a long list of other broken bones too, but it's too long to remember. She made a good recovery, the first I knew was when I saw her in the street wearing a neck brace.

 

[swee'pea99]

Does it affect the value of the "antique"?

How can you affect priceless?

 

[classic33]

How can you affect priceless?

Irreplaceable!

 

[ColinJ]

The woman three doors up the road from me went sleepwalking one night. She had never sleepwalked in her life before, so the first thing she knew about it was when she woke up at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck and a broken back. There was a long list of other broken bones too, but it's too long to remember. She made a good recovery, the first I knew was when I saw her in the street wearing a neck brace.

Yikes!

That reminds me of when a couple went to stay with a pal of mine. My pal got up before the couple and suddenly heard a blood-curdling scream come from the guest bedroom. He ran into the room and discovered the woman desperately holding onto her partner who had climbed halfway out of the first floor bedroom window in his sleep!

Other odd sleepwalking events...

Someone I used to work with was a sleepwalker. He once sleepwalked out of his hotel room, down the corridor, into another man's unlocked room and got into bed with him ... Apparently the victim was out of bed and standing in the corridor in his PJs in about 2 seconds flat!

My colleague's shoes had gone missing that night. An intensive search eventually located them - buried in a large cactus-plant pot at the end of the corridor ...

I'm now trying to remember who sleepwalked into his parent's bedroom and peed in their wardrobe!

(It wasn't me! I can't remember if it was a friend of mine or someone here on CC ...)

I worried myself about 20 years ago when I went to bed in my room on the first floor and woke up in the guest bed in the attic room the next morning... (And before anybody asks - no, there wasn't anybody else in the house at the time!)

 

[Archie_tect]

GWS Swee'pea. Mrs A_T dis a similar thing a couple of years ago... She doesn't play tennis now... but then again she didn't before.

 

[swee'pea99]

Not disimilar to my mishap. I fumbled the toothbrush and dropped it, and without thinking bent forward to pick it up and face butted the edge of the wash basin

How's the washbasin?

GWS Swee'pea. Mrs A_T dis a similar thing a couple of years ago... She doesn't play tennis now... but then again she didn't before.

I'm sure you were consciously referencing...

"Will I be able to play the piano when the bandages come off, doctor?"
"No reason why not."
"Oh that's wonderful - I've always wanted to be able to."

In other news....

Just spoke to a lovely osteopath doctor who corrected my earlier impression and said very firmly that no, I can't park the vast Space-boot

by the door, for use in the world out there; yes I do need to wear it indoors as well. Basically, I need to wear it anytime I'm upright/walking, inside or out, for 'it can be as long as 10 weeks'.

I'm going stir crazy already, and it's not even 24 hours yet.



Careful on those hairy alpine passes/stairs, folks.

 

[I like Skol]

Did you ask if you could ride the rollers, as long as you keep the boot on?

It's what I did when I was wearing a stout neck brace after my RTA/broken neck episode in 2018. The spine specialist reluctantly agreed that I could....