WHATSIT!!!!!!!!!!

There's nothing like having five cats weaving around your ankles, then stopping, then going and weaving again as you totter downstairs first thing in the morning to put your bones and body at risk. So far, so good… I once broke both bones in my lower leg falling into what amounted to a gutter – and I had had only a glass or two. What did the damage was pulling my over 6-foot then husband over on top of my slightly folded leg as we were holding hands at the time.

Hope you Croc wearers use the heel strap, otherwise they can be as dangerous as any other mules.

I love my crocs; I know they are ugly but they are perfect for me and my crummy feet!

I've given up on slippers and now always wear crocs around the house. Nice coloured ones. And I can go outside to the washing line, the bin or anywhere else without having to change shoes and they are SO comfortable

Ouch to small toes!

I've done that Ariadne only it was the corner of the piano. Who would think such a small thing could hurt so much!!

Ouch! [sympathy]emoticon!

Last time I wandered about barefoot, one hot summer's day (remember them?) I stubbed my little toe, and broke it, on the corner of a pine trunk. Oh, it hurt SO much!

I was barefoot when I fell, as usually I am surer footed then!

Thank you susie. I am now boringly but suitably shod.

Oh my Lord notso - hope you are fully recovered and found yourself a stout pair of house shoes now. Slippers are really only for bedroom wear.

It still found me jings, and was much appreciated.

crimson, there may have been one or several glasses of wine involved in my slipper episode. (It was a family get-together) You are right. Falling over is much more rock and roll.

numberplease, when DH kept leaving his slippers just where I and others could trip over them rather than two feet away out of the way, I spoke to him about it, asked him again, moved them myself about two hundred times, then chucked them in the bin. End of problem.

I said nothing. He has said nothing. This happened about a year ago. He hasn't bought himself some new slippers either.

notso (not nice, falls!) – glad you're on the mend!

Notso. It has just dawned on me that I addressed this thread wrongly.

I'm Whatsit. You're Notso.

I am so sorry!

We all have falls notso so dont be hard on yourself, mine was out of the garage. As long as you are on the mend and your pom poms are ok

I need to have my husband re-educated about leaving slippers and shoes at the side of the stairs. At any given time, there aqre 2 pairs of sandals, 1 pair of shoes, and a pair of slippers, at the edges of 4 steps on our stairs. I`m terrified that I`m one day going to fall over them, but he flatly refuses to move them. Maybe if he falls over them himself he will.

Much more rock'n'roll as people would assume drugs or alcohol related ...

My sisters and I have decided not to refer to having 'had a fall' as it sounds so elderly and pathetic. Instead, we just say we 'fell over'. Can happen to anyone. Right?

DH had a talk about risk avoidance at his Cardiac rehab a few months ago and when he came home immediately removed the bedside rugs in our bedroom as he considered them a trip risk. Personally, I usually trip over the turned back duvet when he airs the bed!

Notso ...It's so easily done [tripping, I mean] I'm thankful that you are in recovery. A friend of mine tripped on the trailing telephone wire and caught her foot in the hem of her long skirt. Sustained compound leg-fractures and spent ages lying helpless on the floor. Now fully recovered having spent an age in hospital.

Thanks nanachrissy.

Firing on all cylinders again.

Notso, welcome back, hope you are all recovered now ((hugs))

Oh jeni, hope you're ok. Your stitches trumps my glue!

Yes. It's a nuisance about the self confidence. It will come back.