On The One Hand...

[poliphilo]

Ailz dropped a pair of tights on the stairs. "Don't forget the pair of tights on the stairs," she said. "I won't," I said. A minute later I was going downstairs and trod on something soft and slippy and my feet went from under me and the papers I was carrying went up in the air as I grabbed for the bannister and somehow or other kept myself upright (though slanted) and avoided breaking my back. 

Reactions: still pretty fast

Short term memory: lousy.

Comments

[samhain-punk.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you weren't hurt.

I've slipped down an entire flight of stairs before and then just had to lie there for a bit while I tested that nothing was broken. Never been so happy to stand up on my own two feet in my life.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I fell off a loft ladder once- that was my closest brush with serious injury.

[veronikos.livejournal.com]

And then there was the bicycle into the bush thing.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad you didn't hurt yourself.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

(Me too)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

you are the second person on my flist to have fallen down the stairs.

I'm very glad you are alright.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I had a flashback to when I slipped on wet stairs last year and the bruises lasted for weeks. I'm glad you managed to right yourself in time and that no major damage occured!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was a bit shook up, but no bruises.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I have that sort of short-term memory myself sometimes.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Do you think we should be worried?

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that "should be". I AM worried about my little lapses, which are mostly things I forgave in myself when I was twenty or thirty. I think we are just more sensitive now, watching for signs of dementia. I wonder if this constant vigilance of self might not push people into dementia sometimes? The important thing here is that I am very glad you did not fall. Broken bones in later life take such a horribly long time to heal.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.

I may well have been just as absent minded when I was a kid. I don't know. Absent mindedness is something to laugh at when you're young.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Nah, not yet!! ;-)