Tripped over trailer tongue.

etcallhome · Dec 24, 2012

Sat evening had hooked up car trailer to tractor to do Christmas luminary . Just started to walk around my tractor cart that had the sand loaded on foot caught the tongue of cart and down I went . Landed on both knees , more on left knee than the right, plus on concrete, and instead of going clear to the floor with upper body ,right elbow landed on my BIL 200,000 btu torpedo heater, it was not running at time of fall. . Knee all swollen ,black and blue ,grove in middle of knee cap. Elbow about 2 times larger than normal. This morning decided I better find a doctor before lunch being Christmas eve. Went to the Orthopedics office first thing only to find they were closed , headed on to the Emg room. 3-4 hrs later and 9 xrays, no broken bones. One good thing , I think, knowing from past injuries takes a long time to heal. He did suggest taking some pain medicine. That is helping plus icing both about every 2-3 hrs. So setting here doing as little as possible ,till the end of next week and maybe longer. /what a pain HO HO HO.

aczlan · Dec 24, 2012

Ouch. Hope it heals quickly.

Aaron Z

DT86 · Dec 24, 2012

Ouch!!! I'm sure that felt real good! I hope that it won't detract from your holidays too much!

mjncad · Dec 25, 2012

Are you related to my wife? :laughing:

Get well soon!

Thomas · Dec 25, 2012

When we were young whipper snappers after fall as such,we jump right up and continue on.
Strange how older we get the more time to heal.
Take it easy..speedy recovery.

oldballs · Dec 25, 2012

Us old gezzers never die. We just fall apart.

Hope your mending goes well. Getting back on that tractor is the best cure.

300UGUY · Dec 25, 2012

I broke my ankle 2 years ago, it is still swollen a bit, the docs tell me that it may never be 100%. As we get older, we need to be more careful.

Bob77064 · Dec 25, 2012

Ouch, sorry to hear that.

devildog1 · Dec 25, 2012

Hey we all have done something similar and maybe learned from our mistakes, hope you feel better fast. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
DevilDog

Dan Hunter · Dec 25, 2012

My father tripped over a tongue and fell breaking his collar bone, hit his head and suffered a stroke that took his life the next day. Count yourself lucky.

skylarkguy · Dec 25, 2012

Suck! Try alternating heat and Ice...good luck

drivadesl · Dec 25, 2012

Sorry to hear of your accident, sounds like you're lucky you didn't break anything.

I've caught my knee a few times on my hitch, and finally learned to remove it when not planning to use it.

etcallhome · Dec 25, 2012

Don't think so ,,,but maybe....

etcallhome · Dec 25, 2012

Dan Hunter said:
My father tripped over a tongue and fell breaking his collar bone, hit his head and suffered a stroke that took his life the next day. Count yourself lucky.

Oh,,,hate to hear that,, Been saying I'm very lucky it could have been a lot worst.

OneMan · Dec 25, 2012

Neighbor working in his shop trying to loosen a nut with a 1 1/4" open end wrench and it slipped sending him into his table saw (not running) and onto the floor while hitting his head. 3 hours later another neighbor found him on the floor and helped him inside his house. Didn't want to go to the hospital so 4 weeks later he is still bruised and sore. Oh yes he is 89.
Last year he rolled his 4 wheeler on top of himself and spent 2 hours in the woods before we found him and pulled it off him. Same guy that has a Bronze Star, Silver Star and 7 Purple Hearts. Only the BIG GUY knows when its time.

etcallhome · Dec 25, 2012

Thanks for all the postings, feeling better. Still swelling both knee and elbow, but I was able to eat dinner this evening using my right hand and not my left. That has been a pain not being able to bend the elbow enough to feed myself.
Hoping everyone remembered the reason we celebrate Christmas, had a fantastic day, had all the food you could ever want, received everything and beyond of what you needed and was able to help someone you didn't know.
Thanks again to all the members.

Merry Christmas baby Jesus.

etcallhome · Dec 25, 2012

skylarkguy said:
Suck! Try alternating heat and Ice...good luck

Started doing that this evening.. Thanks

etcallhome · Dec 25, 2012

OneMan said:
Neighbor working in his shop trying to loosen a nut with a 1 1/4" open end wrench and it slipped sending him into his table saw (not running) and onto the floor while hitting his head. 3 hours later another neighbor found him on the floor and helped him inside his house. Didn't want to go to the hospital so 4 weeks later he is still bruised and sore. Oh yes he is 89.
Last year he rolled his 4 wheeler on top of himself and spent 2 hours in the woods before we found him and pulled it off him. Same guy that has a Bronze Star, Silver Star and 7 Purple Hearts. Only the BIG GUY knows when its time.

Send him a many ,many Thank You ,for the military time and all the other WWII thru to today veterans.. . Your neighbor sounds like one tough bird.

Gator6x4 · Dec 26, 2012

Sorry to hear about your mishap. Hope you heal quickly and get better soon. My experience with a trailer tongue left me with a huge knot on my shin that took forever to go away. I was fortunate in that I was able to grab the trailer before falling.