Falls.

[rivka]

Twice in the last week I've fallen and hurt myself. That seems a bit much.

A few days ago I tripped on the edge of the plastic floor protector under my desk chair at home. I fell sideways towards my desk and landed hard on my right (small) wrist. It hurt so badly that I felt intensely sick to my stomach, and for the first few minutes Michael and I thought that I might've broken my wrist. I've still got a large, painful bump there, although curiously it didn't bruise much.

Then, just this afternoon, I headed out to lunch and apparently tripped over a sidewalk crack or something. I fell hard enough that when I landed my laptop backpack actually flipped over my head to rest on the sidewalk in front of me. And I scraped my left palm, left elbow, both knees, and the tops of both feet above my sandal straps. The elbow, left knee, and left foot scraped deeply enough to draw blood - the others just lost the top layer of skin.

This encounter wasn't as painful as the wrist injury, except for the part where I had to scrub the deeper scrapes with alcohol wipes. (God only knows what germs are lurking on a Baltimore sidewalk.) My elbow still aches, and it's bruising up pretty well around the scrape.

This seems kind of excessive, doesn't it? It's not as if my center of balance has really changed, yet.

Comments

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I think the balance can shift just enough to matter this early. I mean, your bosom alone has a gravitational field now, right? Also, the ligament-loosening can mean that sometimes you lean and where previously you'd have caught yourself, a joint is looser and you go over.

[mizchalmers.livejournal.com]

In my second pregnancy the relaxin hormone effect kicked in MUCH earlier than it did in the first. And with this being your third (I am so sorry that it is) it wouldn't suprise me if it were kicking in earlier again.

I am still unreliable in the wrists; I drop things when my joints unlock unexpectedly. And the little one is nearly three.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

just a bit ole ditto to the above.

And I hope your recovering from your falls!