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Gasp….wheeeze….I’m so stupid. Ok, so the new couch arrives tomorrow, and the recliner needs moved over the gate and down the stairs. I’m already grouchy, stressed and frustrated…so I decide to move the recliner so I can vacume where it was. Stupid, stupid, stupid. SOoooo, I get the back taken off, and that’s ok, it’s supposed to come off. I take that part downstairs, no problem. So, I come back upstairs and find myself looking at the bottom half of the recliner, and after doing a test lift…realize there’s no way I’ll be able to get it down the stairs. I call chris…and he says to wait an hour and he’ll help with it when he gets home. Like I’ve mentioned so many times before, I’m horribly impatient, so I decide it’s being moved NOW. haha…I can handle a little discomfort. So…I get it situated and find myself stuck underneath it….yay. Now I’m stuck underneath a chair….in a bizarre position on the stairs. So I take a sec, blank out my mind, get rid of the pain, and heave it up and then get it down the stairs. Once I take my brain off hibernate mode I flop on the floor and lay there gasping like a landed fish.
I think I pulled something in my stomach…and legs….I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck…. OH, wait a minute…that was a recliner, did anyone get the license plate number?
Chris is gonna be so mad. I’d go hide under the couch if it was here yet.
Girl!! What are you trying to do, kill yourself?? 😯 Chris is right in getting mad at you. You couldn’t even wait an hour?? 🙄
Jasmine wrote:Girl!! What are you trying to do, kill yourself?? 😯 Chris is right in getting mad at you. You couldn’t even wait an hour?? 🙄
Second that Purplecat! 😯 😯 😯 but I know how that is, the impatient part… 😡 We would hate to see our up and coming sculptress damaging herself… 😯 not to mention that your family needs you undamaged too! BE CAREFUL! *get the liscence* heeheeheehee 😆 😆
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I can understand the desire to do it yourself, but after you realize it’s too heavy you try to lift it anyway??? I can relate, though; I try to move all kinds of things without asking for help. Just take it easy, stare up at the ceiling, and take a breather. Is Chris your husband?
I can guess who’ll be sitting in a hot tubful of epsom salted water later on……:roll:
Well, at least you have company. I’m stubborn and woefully impatient too. Been known to do…ahh….ummmm….unwise…Yeah! that’s it…unwise things, too…… 😉
purplecat wrote:I think I pulled something in my stomach…and legs….
Last time I pulled a fool stunt like that I got a slipped disc and was laid up in agony and unable to move for two days, followed by two weeks of only being able to move if I was REALLY careful.
The worst thing is that the two days didn’t start until the morning after, when I woke up and tried to get out of bed. Prior to that, I could feel I’d hurt myself, but had no idea how badly.
On the off-chance that you’ve done anything at all like that, the first thing to do is take something that reduces swelling and pain. Ibuprofen is good. Acetaminophen is not (it only blocks the pain, and it’s the swelling that causes trapped nerves and other damage).
I’m hoping you just stressed yourself. Pulled a muscle or two.
On a side note, while I think about it: I once read that a high percentage of accidents in the home are due to people trying to get stuff from one room to another in one trip, carrying too much, and straining themselves, or losing their balance and falling. This knowledge doesn’t help much if what you are moving is a single item that’s too big, of course… Other than to recognise that the most dangerous thing is impatience.
yeah….I need to learn some more patience. I can excercise a good deal of patience with other people, my kids and my art..but when it comes to getting things done, and with myself…I get very impatient… 🙄 I took some aleve straight off…we’ll see if I can move tomorrow. 🙄
The Castle [Dave wrote:“]a high percentage of accidents … losing their balance and falling.
When you’re 320 lbs and 6’8″ this happens daily. I got this turning around in a doorway two nights ago.
You are so like my mother. She has a heart condition. She shouldn’t be moving heavy things. (Like that’s going to stop her….) She moved a dresser (large, heavy, with a mirror and shelves attached to the back) She broke her shoulder!
Now she can’t move heavy things even if she wanted to. The physiotherapist wouldn’t give her exercises for strengthening the shoulder again. Since my mom was unrepentant, and would do it again in an instant.
I hope you haven’t done too much damage.
You need a bumper sticker: I have a recliner and I’m not afraid to use it!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmYou’re like my great grandmother used to be (back in the day, when she was alive)… My dad would call her on Wednesday, tell her “Grandma, I’m coming over on Friday to mow your lawn (shovel your walk, various other things you would do for your 80 year old grandmother), you’ll be home, right?” Of course, she’d reply with “Yes, yes, I’ll be here for you to get it done, see you then.”
Of course, on Friday, dad would arrive to a mowed lawn (or shoveled walk or whatever he wanted to do). It turned out that she had done it the day before (the Thursday).
Oddly enough, going past what would normally be her limits wasn’t what actually got her in the end. Ah, well, she was always a source of frustration/amusement for our family. 🙄
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