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Cracked two ribs...OUCH!

dheffley
Fell off a ladder in the garage two days ago and cracked two ribs.... Dang! That hurts!
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Danny...

    This post just confirmed what I have been thinking...

    You sweetiekins, are your own worst enemy...[}:)][}:)][:o)][:o)]....
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  • Old-Colts
    Then it's my guess it's a little late to say be careful![:D]

    Hope you heal quickly those rib injuries have a way of telling you they are sore every time you move.
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  • Warbirds
    Falls kill more people in the U.S. than guns do.


    We can lobby the feds to ban ladders, and call it "Danny's law", let me know and I will meet you in D.C.

    I really hate ladders. It sounds strange, but I always think to myself "It's 2008, technology is everywhere, why am I forced to climb up a 20 foot tall, 18 inch wide, collapsable piece of Aluminum. There's a better way to make those things I'm telling you!
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  • D1
    I hope it wasn't one of those dreaded black assault ladders.
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  • Sav99
    Hope you get feeling better soon Danny.
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  • asop
    I got a great joke let me know when you heal up!
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  • dheffley
    I ccked some ribs thirty years ago, but I don't remember it hurting this bad. I guess the advanced age has something to do with it.

    When I heal up, I'm going to take everything off of the top shelves. I can just imagine if this had happened to Sandy. I would never forgive myself!
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  • Kodiakk
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    Falls kill more people in the U.S. than guns do.


    We can lobby the feds to ban ladders, and call it "Danny's law", let me know and I will meet you in D.C.

    I really hate ladders. It sounds strange, but I always think to myself "It's 2008, technology is everywhere, why am I forced to climb up a 20 foot tall, 18 inch wide, collapsable piece of Aluminum. There's a better way to make those things I'm telling you!


    They never seem to be rated for enough pounds. The one I got on to put up the Christmas lists on my second story was rated only 200LBS and I weigh around 300LBS. That was a edgy climb for me. [:o)]
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  • Colonel Plink
    Stay away from "The Odd Couple" (The original movie, not the TV series)
    Especially if you've been drinking.

    I know. Oh, how I know.
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  • Gregor62
    Breathe deep, no matter how painful. I am still recovering from pneumonia, after "bruising" my ribs in October. (At least that's where Doc says it came from). Good Luck!
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  • FrancF
    quote:Originally posted by dheffley
    Fell off a ladder in the garage two days ago and cracked two ribs.... Dang! That hurts!


    I have done that. Trying to breath, sleep, and move sucks! 3 weeks of torment for you my friend. Hope you heal faster-[:)]
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  • kristov
    My sympathies. I cracked three ribs in a fall over twenty years ago so I've BTDT. Not much you can do but tough it out.
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  • cbxjeff
    I have more bad news dh. Slipped on ice 2 years ago and fell on my back down 6 stairs outside at work. Fortunately I kept my head up but cracked 2 ribs and brused a kidney. Doc said that there wasn't much he could do for me but what really s**ked was telling me it would be 6 months before I felt better. He was wrong - it was about a year but I was in my mid 60's and maybe a younger guy would heal sooner.
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  • mongrel1776
    It's amazing how pretty much everything you do, from walk to breathe to -- anything -- ties into your ribs. You don't realize that until you crack or break one or two, and EVERYTHING hurts.

    I broke two when I was in my early twenties, cracked another one about ten years later. I don't think age has anything to do with it, we just sort of forget how bad it hurt. And, when we're younger, toughing it out is maybe a little easier -- or a little more a matter of pride -- and maybe we heal quicker. But it does still hurt like hell.
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  • fishkiller41
    Friend of my pop stood on a wood bar-stool, to change a "pocket-light bulb in his kitchen ceiling. The stool broke, and one of the legs went CLEAN THROUGH him.They had to remove his spleen...[xx(]Damn-near killed the guy.
    Hope U get to feelin better, real soon...
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  • Rosie
    Cracked 3 ribs in a fight once and it only hurt when I laughed. [:)]
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  • rustyh
    Been there done that......just don't sneeze.
    Hope you heal soon.
    And stay away from the hiccups too.
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  • ElMuertoMonkey
    Man, that's no good...

    Hope you get better soon!
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  • mateomasfeo
    Remind me not to stand next to you in a lightening storm.

    Lucky you didn't kill yourself. You're not supposed to fall off them...
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