SD>I finally pulled a nearly Darwin Award-winning move last night: I was
  >eating at the computer watching a video, choked, coughed so hard I
  >passed out, fell, smacked my left ribcage on my floor fan, and am so
  >very sore.  Thankfully I had some laundry sitting where my head landed
  >else things could have been much worse.

SD>Gotta pay more attention to things.

SD>I'm so careful not to fall standing up, but I manage to do this while
  >sitting down!

Wow.. that's a bit scary.. I haven't really tried to kill myself in
a few years other than the odd time going through the ice on the bay,
although I'm careful that the water is not deep enough to do much
more than soak my legs..

But one year I was crossing some rough bedrock in winter with
a little bit of snow on the ground. I was here alone, no one less
than half a mile away and in one spot where I'd hop across about
a 3 foot wide gap in the rock a couple of feet deep, as I pushed
off, instead of my foot launching me forward, my foot slipped on
the snow and I just dropped forward. I started putting my hands
down to break my fall but, due to the 'hole', before my hands
touched the ground, my head hit the bedrock on the other side.
It was well below freezing and it very nearly knocked me right
out and that could have ended up a lot worse than a headache..

That's the one that could have killed me.. It's a dangerous place
at times for the most part. I once split the skin over my kneecap
right to the bone and in another fall I broke my shoulder, and
I am virtually always on my own when these things happen..

In my misspent youth I had 2 motorcycle accidents, one at over
70 mph and one at about 110 mph, and I more or less walked
away from those

Sometimes I wonder how I survived to this age...    B)

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