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Author Topic: Falling down the stairs... OUCH!!! Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-06-2005 10:58 AM                        So here I was at home recovering from jaw surgery, and I took a classic hollywood tumble down the stairs. The only thing that didn't get hit during the fall was my face. I had that covered by my arms, which by the way were banged up pretty well. I am a bit of a clutz to say the least. Just a hint... Never let me in your booth! Ciao  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 12-06-2005 11:51 AM                     ouch, i won't let u in my booth, the stairs up there are quite dangerous. watch out!  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-06-2005 12:59 PM                     Hey Dave-- Learn to desend the stairs with "GRACE".  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 12-06-2005 01:21 PM                     Heh, I can't tell you how many times I've hurt my wrist or something catching myself falling down the stairs... Now if you want to feel like a real genius...Try falling UP stairs. I've done it three times.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-06-2005 02:39 PM                        Dave, How long does it usually take to recover from jaw surgery?  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-06-2005 11:27 PM                        Damn Dave.. When are you NOT recovering from something... You are the poster child for accidents anonymous... Hope you heal properly.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-06-2005 11:35 PM                     Well, my booths are on the same level as their auditoria... So if you could manage to get yourself to a handicapped seat, you'd make it to the booth, if not faster Here's to the hope for your lack of scars  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-07-2005 01:39 AM                        Dave, Didn't you get in a car wreck a few months ago as well?! or was that someone else You need to fashion a suit made out of pillows.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-07-2005 12:11 PM                        Yep, that was me last December, getting into a car wreck. The car I was in was hit from behind, I was sitting sideways talking to the driver, and while in my seatbelt, I was tossed around like a rag doll. That took about five months to completely recover from. As for the jaw surgery (which is estimated to be a result from the car accident), there were a series of teeth that exploded below the gum line and into the jaw bone itself, requiring the breaking of my jaw bone to recover the pieces, there is still some reconstruction work that has to be done, however that will not be for at least a year while we get this part perfect first. I am at the tail end of three weeks on this one, and the next surgery will be later this year to smooth out two spots on the jaw bone that did not heal the way that it was expected to. The jaw feels great, to a point, I can chew food on one side of my mouth, and it has to be soft food only. Talking is wierd because my tounge keeps slipping through the hole where my teeth used to be, so I am trying to get used to normal speech. As for the tumble, I separated my right shoulder, sprained my right hip, right wrist, and left ankle, and several abbrasions and deep bruises. Somehow I managed to NOT break anything, other than my pride, which I thought I had lost last year in the car accident when the ambulence drivers nearly lost me out of the back of the ambulence (nothing like hearing "grab him grab him grab him!!!). In all I have broken nearly two dozen bones in my life so far, but none in a while. I have tried to avoid doing too many things that will kill me. I am older ya know! Doing well though. I am just a clutz, always in the wrong place at the wrong time, or doing the wrong things at the wrong time. My mother says I should have been dead a long time ago, especially that time when I was nine months old and managed to push open the screen door and tumble down the concrete flight of stairs (we lived in the UPSTAIRS apartment) and cracking my head open, yet still surviving... She says that either I have a guardian angel, or just the damnest luckiest dumbest person that ever lived. I think I will go with the latter on that one. Ciao Ciao  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-07-2005 12:41 PM                     Good boy, Dave.....  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-07-2005 02:41 PM                        I hope you get better... I hate to say it, but just remember that these things come in threes. Speaking of falling up stairs, I do that all the time! Never fall down stairs though, ever.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-07-2005 05:30 PM                        Dave You're not supposed to do that My friend and wife wre driving down to Bend Or. She was turned around in her seatbelt getting stuff from the backseat. They came around a curve and there was a cow in the road. He slammed on his breaks and missed the cow but the guy behind him rear ended him and broke her back in 3 places. It totaled the BMW they were driving. They are lucky to have survived and so are you  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-07-2005 05:47 PM                     Greg, Glad your wife is ok . So much for me ever wanting to biy a BMW now.... Dave, Now its time for those brews  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-07-2005 06:12 PM                        I should have said "friends wife" (not mine). I think that if it were not for the solidness of the BMW they would have croaked.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-07-2005 07:12 PM                     I have fallen up the stairs too. The last time I can remember falling up stairs I was going up the stairs to bed. I had just put on my jammies and had only socks on my feet. I was able to make a 90% recovery, only ending up on my hands and knees, half way up the staris. But, in the act of trying to catch my balance I smashed my big toe into the stair tread. I cleaned up the blood, pulled out the splinters and bandaged up my big toe. A couple of days later I discovered that the entire toenail had turned black! I had to go to the doctor to have the toenail surgically removed. My toe was a bloody mess for days. I had to take Tylenol #3 w/ Codeine for about a week. It's been several years since that accident but my toenail STILL isn't completely back to normal.  |  IP: Logged

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