On 2021-04-17 9:59 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/17/2021 10:03 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-04-17 1:27 a.m., Leo wrote:
>>> About ten years ago, we had an ex-governor do a half gainer with a
>>> full twist
>>> off his roof and onto the yard by accident. He didn´t make it.
>>> He was a year less old than I am now. You couldn´t get me on a roof
>>> with a
>>> cattle prod.
>>> I hope Sheldon is OK, and I doubt he was on the roof.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It was more than 15 years ago that I had a fall off a ladder. I was
>> cleaning the eaves trough. I was at the front corner where there is an
>> overhang. I used to climb up the ladder and get in the overhang and
>> could reach the eaves on the second story from there.Â* I had the
>> ladder at what I thought was an appropriate angle. I was just about to
>> get into the overhang when the ladder kicked out. I went down. One leg
>> slipped between two rungs, and when I hit the ground my other leg
>> landed on the ladder shoving it back into the shin of the one that was
>> between the rungs.
>>
>> I was in some serious pain. I thought I had broken my shin bone. I
>> went to the ER and had to wait about 4 hours. As it turned out,
>> nothing was broken. I got some pain meds.Â* Shortly after than I bought
>> some good quality gutter guards so I won't ever again have to climb up
>> there to clean gutters.
>
> I pay someone to clean the gutters.Â* You won't find me climbing a ladder
> for anything.Â* Vertigo.
>
> Jill
With age one's sense of balance deteriorates and whereas I used to feel
OK walking over the roof to clean gutters etc., I now pay someone to do
it. It's usually the window cleaner and, ironically, he's in his 70s.