WTF: Almost KO'd myself

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Poor old Geordie's array...
Bent down to pick something from the kitchen floor, got up and banged the edge of my spine right into the corner of the fridge door that Mrs JBJ had opened without my knowledge.

Jesus wept I don't know if I hit a nerve or something but it felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer.

Hit the deck, broke out in a sweat and went light headed to the point I thought I might pass out.

Mrs JBJ has patched me up nice deep serration on my back and superficial one on my elbow where I fell. Told me to chill out so I'm on the couch watching cooking programmes, the housework can wait.
 
Ouch! Take care, mate.

I was sleepwalking last night, and tripped and fell, waking up in considerable pain. Went to the hospital today for a CT scan and I've a fractured rib. It's going to take '2-3 months to heal'.

Thankfully they've given me percocet to fight the pain.
 
Much Mojo.... I did this working outside and was too close to a part of the house that overhangs some landscaping.

I turned on the hose, went to stand up and WHUDDD.... needless to say, the house did not yield to my accelerating skull. :embarrassed:
 
Whacks to the bottom of the spine suck. I was walking down a staircase once and slipped and landed right on the base of the spine. Stood up fine and walked down the rest of way only for my vision to narrow into a point and disappear and I basically passed out standing up. Luckily someone was there and caught me. Gave me a massive adrenaline hit so felt queasy and jittery 5 minutes later. 10 minutes after that I was right as rain :shrug:

I think it just sends a massive overload up your nervous system to the brain and blows a bunch of fuses.
 
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Jeezus... this reminds me of when I was still competing in gymnastics... was working on a handspring front flip off the vaulting horse.... the handspring launch was fine feet in the air, came off the vault and tucked for the front sumi... but when I opened to land I was a little low... landed on my feet but my forehead came down to my knee.... POP...

The spotter at the end of the mat said that as my head whipped back up, my eyes were rolled into my head... :eek:

Apparently my legs still squirmed like I was running for almost a minute... when I opened my eyes, I couldn't figure out how everyone got over to me so quickly. The whole thing was seconds for me... but like 2 minutes for everyone else. :facepalm:

Found this (don't know why the vault is sideways in their gym... men vault lengthways)... the pit he's landing on is lower and softer. I was landing on a 12" crash mat on a gym floor.

Love how the video says "old school vault"... fuckin' disrespectful kids. :wink: (Edit: Oh.. Old School STYLE Vault... I get it... now days, men and women vault off a vaulting table for safety).

 
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bsman said:
Alternatively, mrs jbj may be looking to cash in on your life insurance...
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:grin:
I probably shouldn't laugh but for about a year I've been pestering her about getting the mortgage paid off. I finally sat her down over the weekend and showed her how we could be mortgage free by Friday if we really wanted to, at that point my life insurance would then just be fun money for her if I die before I'm 50 - kinda hope she would hold out for more than the £100k I'm insured for.
 
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