19/11/2024
"Suzi Slow down"!! Yes mum.
This post is to acknowledge how fast things can turn, I was lucky.
Well it happened, I had a fall. I took a step off sidewalk which was uneven, fast to cross and outrun a car, wow, I stumbled and my running momentum carried me to cross before car hit me but knew I would hit the ground, I was being watched by all my angels though as a pole and cement block was directly in front of my fall and I somehow managed to fall and grab onto it . A grazed knee and hole in my fav pants, (will look underneath later when I get home) a hit to the collar bone but happy that's all, my emotions and vulnerability took a harder hit.
It was scary that I could not stop it and the outcome if the pole was not there terrifies me to think.
I truly would have been in big trouble. Amazing group walking past helped me up, embarrassed, vulnerable, humiliated, silly old woman but grateful, all of those emotions in seconds. Then the shock hit me. I had a cry 10 mins later, embarrased..How can a simple thing like walking to yoga, taking a wrong step turn me so unnerved, scared and relise Im not as tough as I thought I was. Ageing is hard enough and being in another country scary but people were not short of helping.
I was scared of getting on a bike more than anything and a simple crossing can do damage too.
I'm so lucky, it's nothing compared to the serious injuries many have every day, what upsets me most it the what ifs. I will go on and try to put those thoughts away and just be grateful.
I'm only sharing to remind us all to be careful. Yes mum, I know "Suzi slow down" .