I just knocked myself out while raking.

I was raking some of the Katrina debris away from my house. Leaves, sticks, stuff like that.

Well, the stick on the rake broke, and I gave myself a left hook to the jaw. I fell onto the ground, saw stars, got a terrible headache, and couldn't move for about two minutes.

Then I got up, and my head was swimming. I'm still woozy.

I'm laughing about it now--give myself a TKO. I could never be a boxer.

Hope you're feeling better - hope both eyes are the same size tonight....

She got a big ole bump in the middle of her forehead. I felt sooooooooo bad because I fell on the ground laughing, I couldn't help it. I'm really glad she wasn't seriously hurt because I could not even get up to help her.

Luckily, it just glanced off the side of my head and knocked my sunglasses askew. Idiotic -- I put the rake down tines up, and I have no excuse: do you know how many Looney Tunes I watched as a kid????

I hope you're okay and feel better!! :hug: :grouphug: And I hope from now on, you have only the bestest of the best of things heading your way.

You may want to have someone check on you often being you were knocked out.


Wake you up etc....


be careful

Dad was up on the roof, raking off leaves and limbs and stuff. I was on the ground under the eaves raking debris away from the house as he pushed it off the roof.

He didn't see what happened, but he saw me on the ground. He came down the ladder in about two seconds. We're laughing about it now.

I wasn't totally out--just very disoriented for a couple of minutes, and I still have a pounding headache.

My kiddo is here. Dad will be here for awhile. I really feel guilty for not getting back out there and helping, but I feel weak.

So much for cleaning the yard today.

...it was GREAT!

Glad to have you back with us... :D

and in the other corner Craftsman "garden implement" Rake.

It was a hell of a punch. I was trying to move a huge pile of leaves with this rake, so there was much force behind my old left when the rake cracked.

I wish I had a video of it. It had to be funny to see.

no doubt about it.

I have a couple of similar experiences but they involve my horse and electricity.

I could use 10K.

A horse and electricity? You didn't pee on an electric fence while riding bareback, did you?

watering trough beside the electric fence, which I grapped while airborne.

Put me out for almost ten minutes and KILLED my digital watch.

Then, being an idiot, I tried to lead her out of the paddock a second time once I'd recovered myseld AND SHE DID IT AGAIN.

I would have paid 10K to SEE that! HAHAHAHAHA!

too damned funny

Hope you're feeling better. :hug:

You got in a fight with a rake and you lost?

Take better care of yourself, dudette. And have someone check you for a concussion.

LOL.

... for finding mirth in your plight. Particularly given what you have only recently gone through.

But hellfire... I laughed like a drain when I read that. (And this from a man who managed to run himself over with his own tractor...)

Wonderful image!

Seriously though, if you still feel woozy after an hour or two it could well be worth getting yourself a quick check-up. Just be prepared for some stifled sniggers from the med-staff examining you!

Hope you get better soon. But whatever you do... be very wary of those garden implements. They're buggers when you startle them - ONLY ever approach them downwind.

When I began to gather my senses, while still lying on the ground, I laughed at myself. My dad laughed, too.

I'm ok. My doctor already rolls his eyes anytime I visit, because he knows he's going to hear something he's never heard before (I love him...we have a good doctor-patient relationship). I will not go to see him today. :D

You've got to love a Doc like that. Who has a "ye GODS, what now???" look on his face when you walk into the consulting room.

Well... if you want a good giggle I'll tell you the story about the tractor one day... ;)

He put me back together after the go-cart wreck a couple of years ago. I ran a go cart off of a bridge into a river, and tried to absorb the impact by sticking my leg out to break the fall. After he patched me up and sent me on to a bone surgeon, we had a good laugh about it.

Before that, he treated me for a psychosomatic response to lecture notes. Yes, lecture notes. I couldn't study for an exam I feared because every time I picked up my notebook, I started trembling and breaking out in hives. Oh, he loved that. He told me that he went through medical school with less stress than I was having over this one history exam.

And before that, he patched up a toe I broke when running through my house. I nailed my foot on the bedpost. Of course, he still ribs me about whether I told the truth to him about that one.

The time before that, I fell out of my jeep and fractured my elbow. While driving. Down a road.

Yeah, we have a good relationship. I've paid for his home to be remodeled. :D

So now it's your turn. Tell me about the tractor. :D

He is right on....you just might have a concussion.....

And those are nothing to fool with, OK?

If that headache doesn't go away, or if your pupils get unequal, get thee hence to an emergency room stat!

I mean it!


:hug:





edited for correction re: which line was quoted....

I nailed myself in the jaw. I didn't hit my head. I fell into the leaf pile, so they absorbed my fall.

I'm ok...just stunned at my bad luck. :hi: :hug:

... and more a sign of addiction.

But a healthy addiction... if that's not a a hyperbolic tautology... or summat like that... ~ahems~

I have a rake you can borrow! :hi:

I sure hope you are okay, I don't know what I am more impressed by, the strength it took to break the rake handle or the strength it took to knock yourself out! :shrug:

:hug: :loveya:



And answer your phone! :freak: :pals:

What's up? We've been trying to clean up around here, in between going to grass and woods fires. We're under a burn ban, but for some reason, some idiots still feel the need to ignite great piles of debris.

Did you see I won the great, beautiful blue flute in the Katrina auction? Can't wait to get it!

How are you?? :loveya: :hug:

I got my clutch fixed on my car, Winston is doing better and now I am just hoping TS Wilma doesn't cause us any troubles. :scared:

Check it out when you can, your sources are the best.

And I just wanted to chat to catch up on things.

:hug: :loveya:

And my normally calm, cool, and collected father wants to get the debris off and away from the house before Wilma nears.

I want to chat with you, too. I will call you tonight, I promise. I'm going to go charge my cell phone right now.

I don't think I could take another one, Maddy. :scared: Rita had me on pins and needles - my sleep patterns aren't right yet since Katrina.

I look forward to chatting with you tonight. Rest that jaw and take good care of yourself. Give my love to MMjr and Daddy McCall! :grouphug:

I need a road trip soon, maybe I'll come visit one weekend soon. :hug: :loveya:

Let me clean up this disaster of a house, first. Would love to have you visit for a weekend of cookouts, movies, hanging around the firehouse.

I'm going to go check those links right now. I'm not liking what the models had this morning. If it looks like it might head your way, you pack your trailer, hook it up to the jeep, and come up here, you hear?

would be.

Not sure if the jeep will make it pulling a trailer - I'll just get it to Saucier -- but do want to come visit if not in Oct, then in Nov.

I'm getting off line -- have to go -- give a call later if you can.

:hug:

the thick, hard head usually breaks the rake. And they blame liberals in the neighborhood for banning leaf blowers and other power equipment they feel is a God given right.

Whether it is true of not. ;-)

How are you feeling now?

But I'm ok. I've been through worse.

Actually, I feel kinda like that smilie in your post. :D

I'll get redneck on its ass for taking a shot at you, Maddy!




Glad you are ok, darlin'!

:hug:

The rake is history. What is it about 11 year old boys. My son, seeing the broken rake, determined that I don't need it anymore, so he bashed it against a stump until he broke the handle into at least ten pieces.

Boys! :D

Are you feeling okay now? You must have really whacked yourself hard.

I had to clean up all this tin roofing and kept slicing myself. My back yard must have been like a blender with all that metal circulating between the shop next door and the house on the other side.

Look out for Wilma. She may be heading your way. I'd hate to see all that rubble become shrapnel. I'm sure I will annoy my children to pieces if Wilma heads towards Mississippi.

keeping a thread in LBN updated. Can you believe the coast might see ANOTHER cat 3 or above storm this year?

concussion, but definitely continue to monitor symptoms.

Headaches, neausea, light-headedness...

It's funny the little curve balls Life can send you... or broken rakes, for that matter! :)

Hang in there,
Shine
:hug:

down the middle of my face. I was pulling on a peice of corner molding and it broke and the part I had in my hand up and slapped me in the middle of the face and wrapped over my head. OH LORD WAS THAT A SURPRISE!!

My father laughed for a week while the welt healed.

I am sorry your lawn kicked your ass.

The simpsons episode <9F22> Cape Feare, where Sideshow Bob continually keeps stepping on a rake, and it keeps smacking him in the face.



At least you only got hit once :D hope you are feeling better too!

:D

:hi:

Even my father laughed AT me. I can be such a clutz sometimes. :D

*ba dum crash*

i'm gLad you're ok though. :hug:

:hi:

a knockout like you . . .

goo dluck with the clean up.

Make sure you don't have a concussion. Those can be nasty. Have you seen a doctor?

Don't need the doctor. I'm ok. Just moody, as I told sundog. But the doc can't help me with that. :(

I fought the rake and the rake won,
I fought the rake and the rake won!

:hide: :yoiks: