I took a fall last week coming down the steps. I’m OK, just banged up a bit. I tripped over a box on the third step and next thing you know I was down in a heap. I asked people at work how many steps you had to fall before you could say you “fell down the steps”. They said it had to be at least four steps before you can say “fell down the steps”, but for a senior they said it could be three steps. The nurses I asked said that there was no set rule for that in the medical community.
I didn’t turn the stairwell light on and that likely contributed to my fall. I had asked an eye doctor a while ago if, as I age, my pupils adjust slower to the darkness or light, say, when I go in the closet. His response to me was, “Why don’t you just turn on the light?”
I bumped into the eye doctor last week and I told him about the stairwell fall. He said if it happens again he’s gonna put me on a twelve step program.
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