:O) sorry about your fall, ladders can be dangerous, when I am up high (3 steps) I am terrified. If I fell I would be yelling....Help I have fallen and can’t get up...even my dog wouldn’t know, she’s deaf...poor girl..:O) GG
As is often the case, it was a self inflicted injury. I'd gone up one extra step to reach some higher branches. (Did I mention I had a chain saw in my hand when I fell? :) ). But then promptly forgot I'd taken that extra step. So I went down to what I thought was the the bottom rung, turned and stepped off. Realized my error too late to stop my forward momentum, but I did manage to toss the chain saw aside so I wouldn't land on it, or have it land on me. Nasty crunch followed. I had to scoot into the house on my backside.. but only my younger daughter was home. I was trying to get to the phone to call an ambulance, when my wife returned, she helped me get up, and hop to her car. Only regret is that it made me miss my grandfather's funeral. OTOH, it meant my brother served as pall bearer in my stead, which I thought he should have anyway, since I'd done that for Grandma. (The funeral was over 600 miles from our house, only about 30 from his.)
That was better than when I broke my wrist after tripping on a shoe string. I had drive myself, in a manual transmission car, to the emergency room. :) Fortunately it was my left wrist, but I still had to release the wheel to shift. :)
Reminds me of what I was just telling #1 granddaughter about my San Antonio neighbor. She was deaf and a graduate of Gallaudet University. She bought a dog, a Boston Terrier, which she hoped would be able to alert her if someone was at the door.. but the dog turned out to be deaf too. :) She had a flashing light system for the doorbell and for her phone. (TTD)