Oh, shit....

[davidgillon]

... {splat}

aka I just flipped myself out of the chair backwards.

I think I was a bit energetic in decoupling from Asda's wheelchair trolley when I took it back after putting my shopping in the car, and when I stopped my wheels the chair pivoted on them. I flung myself forward, but couldn't quite get the momentum to stop it, but it did make it a fairly slow motion flip. And curling forward also meant my head missed slamming backwards into Asda's plate glass windows by about an inch.

Of course people came running, and I had to stop them from trying to pick me up, which wasn't helped by the fact they were a bunch of foreign schoolkids and didn't understand what I was saying!

Amazingly the two bottles of spirits in my back-bag also survived, though the two loaves and sadly the box of Magnum icecreams may never be the same again. (Doubly amazing for the spirits as there is a very prominent projecting bar across the back of the chair)

I'm okay, just literally a bit rattled. My neck hurts a bit, but it wasn't exactly happy before I left the house.

Comments

[legionseagle]

Thank God that you've saved the spirits so you can use them For Medicinal Purposes Only.

[alatefeline]

I'm glad you are okay if rattled!

[yhlee]

Oh man, glad you're all right!

[capri0mni]

I hate when that happens!

[davidgillon]

Very large Pernod and lemonade already applied internally!

[legionseagle]

Not an aniseed fan myself but it certainly bears out the medicinal theme!

[lilysea]

Ack!

That sounds really scary!

Glad you're ok!

[rachelmanija]

Owww!

[davidgillon]

Applause for icon choice!

I'm actually in less pain today than I was before I left the house yesterday, so it looks like I survived.

[davidgillon]

Slow enough to have time to think "This could really hurt!" isn't my favourite, but fortunately it wasn't actually that bad.

[davidgillon]

Yep, haven't done it in a while, but not my favourite thing. First time I've gone over backwards in the new chair and it actually protected me fairly well. Just as well I asked for the back to be a bit higher than standard in an active-user rigid.

[davidgillon]

Shaken, not stirred ;)

Well, actually pretty stirred up, but not broken.

[davidgillon]

Thanks!

[capri0mni]

Or when I'm in a motor chair and it tips over sideways -- haven't done that in years (like going on 20). And luckily a motor chair is like an armored tank, and protects me from injury, and I've always done it when there were plenty of people around. But it's a major hassle to get upright again.

...That's why I don't "Go for walks" in any place without sidewalks. I don't trust the shoulders of roads to be free of sudden dips/potholes, and I don't trust drivers to see me.

Which means I'm basically homebound, since suburbs in America don't have sidewalks, even though the library and grocery store are technically within motoring distance.

*sigh*

[alatefeline]

Listening.

[capri0mni]

Thanks.

(If only I could design cities with the power of a Sims player!) ;-)

[shehasathree]

Damn! Glad that you're mostly-okay.

[davidgillon]

Thanks, mostly it aggravated existing aches, and I was fine by Friday morning.