EPISODE 1,010 ; “IT IS EASY TO FALL, REALLY EASY — HERE IS HOW TO FALL”

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From: ALAN SKEOCH <alan.skeoch@rogers.com>

Subject: EPISODE 1,010 ; “IT IS EASY TO FALL, REALLY EASY — HERE IS HOW TO FALL”

Date: February 1, 2024 at 10:18:50 PM EST

To: John Wardle <jwardle@rogers.com>, Marjorie Skeoch <marjorieskeoch@gmail.com>

Note:  This is corrected story..sent rough note earlier..sorry

EPISODE 1,010 ;  “IT IS EASY TO FALL, REALLY EASY — HERE IS HOW TO FALL”

alan skeoch

FEb. 1,2024

So you want to know how to fall,  Well here is an easy way to do it

Any nincompoop can learn to fall,  Here is how I did it,

1)  Complain “Cannot sleep, I’m going downstairs to watch TV”

2) Best if there is no response.  Your partner is asleep

3) Slip put of bed and carefully descend 14  stairs to the main floor

where you have a walker waiting

4) wobble with the walker to the refrigerator and eat a tub of yogurt or make 

a salami Sandwich

5) Decide to go back to bed

6) Do the wobble walk back to hte walker

9{ Park the wobble walker at right angle to the stairs

100 Release the walker.. both hands

11) Feel the rush of freedom,,,Enjoy it for a second or two

12) Twist away from the walker.   Savour the adrenaline rush for a millisecond more

13)  Ask yourself “Am I airborne?

14)  ask yourself  “Am I in full flight?  You will be,

15)  Feel your surgery leg collapse,,,shatter or wobble

16) The rest is automatic,,,you may pivot or you may plunge

17) I pivotted briefly then crashed into the fireplace where an

assortment of  devils awaited,

18) A large tinware fox managed  to slice both hands…hungry fox 

19) My head hit a stoneware duck which we thought was ornamental…sliced

a lock of hair  with scalp along for the ride

20) Still swivelling I conked myself on the bottom stair

21)So terribly weak 

22) raising to my only good knee was a challenge

23) blood 

24) “Marjorie, I am hurt down here…..help!

25)  Crawling up 14 stairs to awaken Marjor she took over …..mopping up the blood…bandaging

 

NOTE:  AT what number did this cease to be a joke?

It was no joke…easy to fall,,,dreadfull

Marjorie recorded it best below

Al’s knee is hard to bend Fell in floor at 3am cut his head and hand on fireplace area just away from railing . Bled more than usual as he has been on blood thinners . Relaxed finally after cleaning up and finding larger bandaids . Back at physio again and only one more time . Need to have a physio for house 🏡. Looking into it  . Got to flatten that knee . 

.Alan fell last night at 3am. After bandaging and cleaning up his head wound and hands and fingers and surrounding blood 🩸 all through stairs and floor , I finally got him back to sleep at 5 am till 8 am and then off to Physio at 9:30 . Anxiety is a dreadful nighttime issue . I had to reassure him that the wounds and bruises would heal and the blood was from all the blood thinnng  pills before surgery . He bled again at physio on chair and floor but got through his exercises better even though it hurt . Reward was after in the lobby for all to enjoy . A coffee and muffin and a piano and bass violin . He is back home at 1 pm.