I feel like a complete twit , but I am lucky so so very lucky
this morning I had one of my special nose bleeds not to worry it was a small one about 25 min, left me a little drained , but I survived.
My kid managed to get us a new patio couch set for our gazebo on sale and with her employee discount, from her work the box weighed in at 50+ KGs about 112 lbs , no worries I have truck we removed the tonneau cover off the truck and at about 07:00 Pm we decide to go and get it, I'm still light headed after my earlier bout of how much blood i can force out my schnoz. I told her I would prefer to get it tomorrow as we had to prep for the new goodies. we get it home , I back it up to the garage door and after untying the tie down straps the box is standing straight up we decide to drop it on to it's side, this box is 6 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide.
As we are dropping it down flatter on the bed of the truck, I loose my footing and fall off the bed of the truck, as I am going down off the truck bed I notice the concrete stairs, just where my head may hit, or the concrete retaining wall also where my head may hit, neither of these are acceptable to me.
so through some quick thinking I dove to land on the drive way surface, using my elbow to break the fall and just landing on my right side , Keys are in my right pocket they crunch into my right thigh I did bang my head and neck on the drive way but I can attest that was better than the options listed above. I was monitoring my physiology to see if there was more damage than my scraped elbow and immense pain every where, I started to feel shock coming on, but with a little rest I was able to control the symptoms I got really sweaty hot, sick to my stomach, the need to void right now , the feeling I was going to pass out etc. while the pain hit. I was fine I just had to rest. if it did not settle down I would have had my kid call for some help, but I was OK , ........OH how I dread tomorrow's stiffness .
I still feel like a complete twit, If I were 16 I would have shrugged off like nothing , got up and kicked that fricken box into next week!
this morning I had one of my special nose bleeds not to worry it was a small one about 25 min, left me a little drained , but I survived.
My kid managed to get us a new patio couch set for our gazebo on sale and with her employee discount, from her work the box weighed in at 50+ KGs about 112 lbs , no worries I have truck we removed the tonneau cover off the truck and at about 07:00 Pm we decide to go and get it, I'm still light headed after my earlier bout of how much blood i can force out my schnoz. I told her I would prefer to get it tomorrow as we had to prep for the new goodies. we get it home , I back it up to the garage door and after untying the tie down straps the box is standing straight up we decide to drop it on to it's side, this box is 6 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide.
As we are dropping it down flatter on the bed of the truck, I loose my footing and fall off the bed of the truck, as I am going down off the truck bed I notice the concrete stairs, just where my head may hit, or the concrete retaining wall also where my head may hit, neither of these are acceptable to me.
so through some quick thinking I dove to land on the drive way surface, using my elbow to break the fall and just landing on my right side , Keys are in my right pocket they crunch into my right thigh I did bang my head and neck on the drive way but I can attest that was better than the options listed above. I was monitoring my physiology to see if there was more damage than my scraped elbow and immense pain every where, I started to feel shock coming on, but with a little rest I was able to control the symptoms I got really sweaty hot, sick to my stomach, the need to void right now , the feeling I was going to pass out etc. while the pain hit. I was fine I just had to rest. if it did not settle down I would have had my kid call for some help, but I was OK , ........OH how I dread tomorrow's stiffness .
I still feel like a complete twit, If I were 16 I would have shrugged off like nothing , got up and kicked that fricken box into next week!
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