WHATSIT!!!!!!!!!!

Tripped over my slippers jings, concussion, lots of blood, ambulance. A&E, head glued. Complete attention seeking.
All ok now, but yes, was out of the loop for quite a few days.
I kept repeating my times tables to check there was no brain injury!

O M G !!!!!!

That must have been so scary! Not to mention painful.

Slippers can be a bu---r!

I hope you are all mended now.

I am always saying to my daughter, "If your slippers were on your feet, they wouldn't be under mine!"

Thanks jings, all ok now.

Bit of a wake up call. Seriously though.... to anyone who wears flippy floppy, slip on mules type slippers...be careful!

I now have properly fitting old ladies slippers. No pom poms.

Oh, notso glad you're OK. But yes, scary. And a fall makes you just that bit more apprehensive too. Do take care. xx

Do you know Notso, that is how I injured my back just before Christmas. Didn't have slippers on properly. Had 'em on like mules, and tripped over the doorway threshold.

Trouble is, it's not easy to get good, well fitting slippers.

This thread had better be a warning for all grans everywhere.

They should put it on the front page.

notso join the club. But I had the police as the ambulance was too busy! Andi had to have stitches! So there!

jeni, I think I must have missed yours as well. Hope you are ok now! for you too.

jingwell I'm sitting here doing a paper tribunal (well ahead of my newly appointed judge. Waiting for him to catch up ) so I presume I'm as ok as ever iam. just taking it very carefully when I move. I've lost some of my self confidence, but I assume it will come back

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

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

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

Thanks nanachrissy.

Firing on all cylinders again.

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.

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!

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?

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

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.

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

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

I'm Whatsit. You're Notso.

I am so sorry!

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

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.

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.