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seticat3 shelf particle board bookcase =/= step ladder.
Finial count: books shelf = KIA, gravity = 1, carbon based humanoid unit = big fat 0.
The mantra for tonight is "Well, *that's* gonna leave a bruise." Upper right arm, right kneecap and right big toe. Simple bruising to the first two but I'm holding off any chance of a break to the toe until tomorrow. Basically, I was an idiot and went to adjust a curtain rod by kneeling all my weight on the bookcase with my right knee. The top pancaked down to the floor taking all the shelves with it. I hit one upright side with my upper arm, I landed smack on my patella and I have a feeling that the toe tried to bend backward, but as I said, I'm going to hold out a final judgment on more than a sprain. Everything moves in the directions it's supposed to & there's no new & interesting ways things are moving. I've loosely compression wrapped the big toe with Coban and then 'buddy splinted' it to the next next to it and am icing it on and off.
I just can't believe I was that *dumb*!
UPDATE: . No swelling this am, a tiny-tiny bruise and really no pain, not even point tenderness. I'm going to keep it buddy taped for another day or so, but I think I lucked out on this one.
That's what happens when you open a 6-pack of Dumb-Ass...
Finial count: books shelf = KIA, gravity = 1, carbon based humanoid unit = big fat 0.
The mantra for tonight is "Well, *that's* gonna leave a bruise." Upper right arm, right kneecap and right big toe. Simple bruising to the first two but I'm holding off any chance of a break to the toe until tomorrow. Basically, I was an idiot and went to adjust a curtain rod by kneeling all my weight on the bookcase with my right knee. The top pancaked down to the floor taking all the shelves with it. I hit one upright side with my upper arm, I landed smack on my patella and I have a feeling that the toe tried to bend backward, but as I said, I'm going to hold out a final judgment on more than a sprain. Everything moves in the directions it's supposed to & there's no new & interesting ways things are moving. I've loosely compression wrapped the big toe with Coban and then 'buddy splinted' it to the next next to it and am icing it on and off.
I just can't believe I was that *dumb*!
UPDATE: . No swelling this am, a tiny-tiny bruise and really no pain, not even point tenderness. I'm going to keep it buddy taped for another day or so, but I think I lucked out on this one.
That's what happens when you open a 6-pack of Dumb-Ass...
