That'll teach you to brag! I had just sent my cousins an email saying that having the baclofen pump surgically installed has helped me to walk better!
I wrote that email in the very early morning. A couple of hours later I fell, twice in the last month actually, same right side.
I wasn't wearing shoes, I normally don't in the house, no socks, bare footed.
The problem is that we have a tile floor that while walking on it appears sometimes uneven, and so I thought I tripped this time, but sensations are weird with MS.
I suppose it might have been an odd sensation that felt like a ripple in the ceramic tile that has been there for about sixteen years? Alright, but highly unlikely.
Bottom line I tripped and fell wearing my corset thingy, probably a good thing?
Taking inventory of what was sore and what had potential for breaking, sore hip bone but not broken, sore elbow but not broken or bruised, oddly enough I did not recall hitting my knee but it is bruised, and so is my second toe on that right side too, although that I do believe IS broken, so I faired not too badly... oh again on my right ear, I might get a cauliflower one if I keep falling on it!
Got to watch out that doesn't happen, it did swell up last time. Even a couple of weeks later it was still slightly swollen so my neurologist gave it a look- see to verify no damage to the ear itself, A-OK.
All the falls I have taken I do not break most bones, and that I attribute to being extremely active when well, and when not able to do what I used to and on injectable medications for MS, the nurse told me to take calcium with D and I have been taking Caltrate 3X a day as prescribed since 2010!
And so far none of the eight falls I have taken in the last nine months did I break anything!
Also on my bone density tests that I have every two years at nearly seventy years old I have very slight osteopenia that's all. Many my age and younger have osteoporosis, not good.
Uh oh, bragging again, watch tonight I will find out I broke more than my toe!
Interesting notation: * these last two falls I did not go to the hospital as suggested previously to be checked out both since social distancing and isolation at home, I did not stay away due to COVID-19, well maybe... but the ER is not used for coronavirus patients and all ERs are safe and scrubbed and you and they must wear masks, ya know...and that is absolutely true so if you must go heart attacks, strokes, broken hips, etc. GO!
Be smart and be safe!
Happy good night to all!
Count those blessings and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
Aussie shut it down!
(I am an Australian Shepherd, an interesting factoid I was supposed to be a miniature but...as you might know I AM NOT! But I am now 29 months old, so I am the baby HA! I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me.)
No tail/tale publishing circa 2018.
Don't forget us too! 
Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!
And me Chance, I am a Bichon Frise mix, first I thought Maltese but now I am considering poodle? I am pictured here with Mom and Dad at the Port Charlotte Animal Welfare League! I am five years old they think.
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