Caution slippers

[RC Storick]

They don't call them slippers for no reason. Last year I stepped out onto my front porch in the ice with my slippers on to place salt on my cement steps. I slipped and my back hit every step on the way down. I could not move for what seemed like forever. It took a few weeks to recoup and I vowed to never set foot on the steps again with slippers on.  Nope it happened again only in a different spot. My back is strained again. Bummer

Moral don't go outside in the snow anywhere in slippers period!

[john e. holliday]

Secret to that and other shoes is to slip a pair of old socks over the shoes.   Now the back problem I still get grief from my back from many many years ago scooping snow form my Mother.   Last scoop I could not stand up.   Had to call for help.  The pain is deep in side and still flairs up.

[peabody]

Move away fom snow......it's evil.

[Serge_Krauss]

Oh, do be careful on steps in the winter! A few years ago I stepped back outside to unload the car and slipped on ice on the top step. To prevent what happened to Robert, especially fearing neck or spinal injury, I tried to catch myself with a hand. That splayed my fingers apart, resulting in tendon damage that left two fingers free to sway back and forth, initially preventing me from grasping anything. The damage mended some, and I did exercises to build the adjoining muscles, but there are still some slight affects after a decade. As kids, I'm sure we wondered how people got hurt falling down stairs, but now we know! Good reminder.

[John Stiles]

Did that this very morning, only I had my work boots on...everyone in my house was asleep. Farmer's hours ya knaw! LOL Anyway, after the blizzard yesterday I figured I had it made, and I did, till I tried to stop at the back door....no brakes; kaboom. Everybody woke up after that....almost took out the whole back door! 

[wwwarbird]

Move away fom snow......it's evil.

 It's true, and it's a four letter word.

[Randy Cuberly]

It's not necessary to have ice and snow or even cold weather to make this happen in house slippers.  I did a similar thing several years ago on our wooden circular staircase steps inside the house hurrying down to answer the phone.  Foot slid off the front edge of the steps and I bounced down half a dozen steps untill I managed to get a foot against the railing and stop!
I couldn't move for about 5 minutes and actually thought something was broken...X-rays said NOT...but it took a couple of weeks before I could walk right again.
Just being stupid is usually the cause, certainly was for me!

Randy Cuberly
PS: Glad you weren't seriously injured Robert!

[Bob Reeves]

Pretty sure falls are the #1 cause for old coots visiting the emergency room. Be really careful, our bones can't take the abuse they could when we were kids. We keep a bag of ice melt (rock salt) by the front door when it snows and/or we get ice. It's only 4 steps from our porch to the walk but even falling 4 steps can be catastrophic. Even if the ice melt doesn't actually melt the ice it gives your shoes something to grab.

[rustler]

#1 cause for old coots visiting the emergency room.....

This is terrible. Now that people's age seems to be appearing by their name, everyone seems so old. Wait a minute, the're nearly all younger than me.  
Get well soon Robert.

[RC Storick]

went to the clinic and I seemed to have aggravated a old injury. Its going to take some time to heal. The bummer is I can't stand or sit for long. Maybe I need inversion.

[Dan McEntee]

went to the clinic and I seemed to have aggravated a old injury. Its going to take some time to heal. The bummer is I can't stand or sit for long. Maybe I need inversion.

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      I have been thinking about the inversion thing myself. After spend the last 35 years or so on my feet pound pavement at work, and some other old injuries, time is taking it's toll. It's really a matter of mechanics, all that time your spine compresses, and anything to reverse that has to be of some help. I'm not sure I have enough room in my house for one, but I am looking into it.
    Take care, flying season is coming!
     Dan McEntee

[Russell Shaffer]

I keep a coffee can filled with cheap Home Depot sand handy.  It's easy to toss a small amount on the porch and steps and just sweep it off later.  I find I am much more likely to scatter some sand than messy ice melt stuff.  And my wife doesn't complain about a little clean sand.

[Mike Keville]

It's even worse (and infinitely more embarrassing) when one can't blame snow or ice.  A couple of weeks ago, when re-entering my front door, I somehow tripped over my own feet - - fell onto a TV tray (which shattered), landed on the floor with no idea how I got there.  Nasty bruise on the upper right arm, but no real damage (other than to my ego).

Coming close to age 74, I decided I'd better start moving more slowly - and watching where I put my feet.

Jeez!  Getting old SUCKS!  (Beats the alternative, however.)

[Dennis Saydak]

Slipper, GASP, you can afford them?

[William DeMauro]

Hope you get well fast. Be careful and make sure you don't have any set-backs. Take care!!
William

[Dave_Trible]

Robert get better fast!  I'm sure that hurt.  One icy morning about 4 years ago I went out to start the car for work one morning.  Stepped onto a slight downslope on the sidewalk and my feet shot out in front of me.  I landed on my back on the concrete and fortunately my thick hat padded my thick head.  However I broke a rib right next to my spine.  They can't do much for it other that wrap you up tight and feed you pain pills until you heal.  Now I plod through the grass and stay off the sidewalk.

Dave