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Date Posted: 06:44:11 02/08/07 Thu
Author: AmyLynn, gravity challenged
Subject: Inside....
In reply to: Meg 's message, "Question for AmyLynn" on 18:29:16 02/07/07 Wed

Well, I wasn't *BLOWN* off the steps by an exploding bomb, LOL. Maybe from that you could be, if you landed on your neck.

But I did fall, head first, on my back, down a flight of stairs. I was standing at the top of the stairs, missed the first step down and somehow spun around, and down on my back, head first, I went, down about 15 steps. Hard steps. I remembered there was a fall at the foot of the steps, so I put my hands out to keep from smacking into it and hurting my neck, and "pushed off" the wall and flipped over. To say my back was hurting and I was sore all over is an understatement. And it takes a second for your insides to settle. (Wonderful thought, eh?)

When I spun around and then actually fell, that *felt* like flying because you have all that time (what, a second at most? LOL) before you fall down to the steps and make contact, and then you just keep going. (Lovely thing, gravity.) Except for the blowing off part, I relived this fall when I saw that scene. Ouch!

(Do you remember old movies where a woman falls down a flight of steps and breaks her neck? Or perhaps she rolls sideways down them? I've never figured out how they do that, because I've fallen down plenty of steps, and never managed the sideways thing. And usually you're trying in vain to stop yourself, which they never do on TV, either. Those old movie falls are very fake looking, to me, the professional stair faller. LOL Some of the newer shows are more realistic, and then I cringe.)

I don't remember if Gibbs bounced down any stairs or was just blown off and landed at the bottom of the stairs, but I can say from experience, you do not just land on your butt/back and leap up and run after anybody. First, you lay there stunned. Then, if you've managed to do this in front people, you are flooded with embarrassment. And pain. It's hard to say which hits first. Then you try and move, and then you get up and moan.

Even when I've forced myself to stand up quickly (at least, it felt like I was standing up quickly) to save myself more embarrassment, it would be pretty amazing to take off running because you're just too sore at first. You'd take a step or two and wobble.

I also have slipped down concrete steps several times, usually bouncing down on my butt. I've done that at home, several times, in school once or twice, and a few times in large arenas. I fell down the last 3 steps to our basement while I was carrying laundry a few months ago -- I twisted my ankle or something and went to my *knees* down those last steps and landed hard on my knees on the concrete floor, almost smacking my head into the concrete wall, but I held on fast to the laundry. Isn't that smart?

As for being ejected off of something, I was on a square-toboggan-like thing being pulled around, and the edge of it hit a bank of snow, jarring my side to a stop, and flung me off like a rag doll a few feet in front of the "sled". My two friends still on the "sled" yelled for the driver to stop, but they didn't, and they ran me over with the "sled". I had the wind knocked out of me when I landed. One friend on the "sled" finally got it stopped, while the other was hysterically screaming, "She's dead! She's dead!" and almost having an asthma attack. I was one who knew where her inhaler was, but I couldn't speak yet because I was still trying to catch my breath and move. When I landed I heard so many snaps I thought I broke every bone in my body. As it turned out, that would have been better. Instead I snapped all the muscles that attach to my shoulders, collar-bone, and neck. I felt like Daffy Duck when he would get hit and have both eyes on one side of his head and his bill knocked around. I still have pain from that accident. Ejecting may only take 2 seconds, but you remember every bit of it because time stands still. Impacts are murder.

I think we need a tripping emoticon. I found this one, it's me on a stretcher. ROTFL



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[> [> OUCH! Poor you! (inside) -- Meg, 11:59:27 02/08/07 Thu [1]

I'm amazed you weren't more seriously injured. And I'm relieved.

The fall basically had the person go flying backwards (sliding, pretty much) and do the flip landing you described, so it was the same type of thing. But it wasn't Gibbs - that's why he was able to get up:) There's an explosion and a person who's dressed identically to Gibbs comes falling down the stairs and flips over, looking like they're probably dead. Viv and Tony run towards them, then the smoke clears at the top of the steps and you see Gibbs step forward and walk down like a normal person.

I'm not sure how they pull off the turning sideways either, I've just slid down forwards. I have had the wind knocked out of me once when I tripped running down a hill - hated every second of it. Yeah, impacts are a real treat.

Love your little dude on the stretcher.

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[> [> [> Inside ... -- AmyLynn, 12:28:48 02/08/07 Thu [1]

First, yes, I know the STUNT PERSON is the one who really fell. (Rolls eyes, LOL) But how do THEY feel after they do this all day?! I'm impressed, but not sure at what --- their bravery or their stupidity (I mean this in the best way possible). LOL

Second, why on earth were you RUNNING DOWN a hill?!?!

And Third,

My pride was injured early in my "falling" career, but now I have none left. I practically warn people when I'm introduced to them. "Hi, I'm Amy and I trip on air." (Not a very good opening line, huh?)

I try and be UBER-careful. (Except for that last fall down the basement steps, LOL) This means I walk like an old person on ice or down the steps, holding firmly to the railing, taking one step at a time -- I trip when I try and take two steps at a time, LOL -- and I go SLOW. I've been known to trip on dry, flat ground.

I think my problem is that my feet can't keep up with the rest of my body when I'm in a hurry, LOL. Though I say this in jest, I'm probably correct: I have moderate scoliosis (and though people say they can't tell, I surely do) and that does affect the feeling in your legs and the way I distribute weight on my hips when I walk, and because one hip is pulled up higher, the affect is my legs have slightly different lengths. Slight, schmlight --- it sure matters when you need to lift your leg to take that last step, or when your weight shifts slightly when you go down the steps.

Combine this with glasses, and you have an accident waiting to happen at almost any moment in time. My friends take it in stride and now yell out helpful little things when we travel or well, go anywhere ---

"LOOKOUT, there's a CURB! Did Amy see the curb? Somebody let her know--"
"Yes, yes, everybody, I SEE the curb."

"Well, there's 300 steps to the lookout point. Do you think she'll make it?"
"Yes, I'll MAKE it, just go ahead and I'll take my time. I do have to hold onto the camera AND the railing, you know."
time passes, and they've made it up to the top and rested, and then I'm there

And then there's ice. I mean, honestly, a person like me has NO BUSINESS having to walk on ice. I will never ski, either. Just break my legs, now, please, and give the doctor the money I saved from the ski rental. I've had good friends invite me to go skiing ...I wonder if they're out to get me.

I have had 2 really bad falls on ice in my own drive-way (it's sloped like a mountain ::shakes head::), and one EXTREMELY funny experience that makes me laugh whenever I think about it (I'm smiling now, in fact): I slipped on the flat, icy ground at the post office, and my legs went half-way under my car, while I was stuck between the car door and the drive-through mail box. I started laughing at the absurdity of this, and my friend in the car with me started laughing, and there I was, stuck, not able to pull myself up until we quit laughing.

I have no grace when I fall, either. I just fall, all over the place, in a big whoosh. It's really quite comical. I usually laugh about it, too .... once I get up and find the icy-hot.

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[> [> [> [> Re The Person Who Fell (inside) -- Meg, 13:46:49 02/08/07 Thu [1]

First, yes, I know the STUNT PERSON is the one who really fell. (Rolls eyes, LOL) But how do THEY feel after they do this all day?! I'm impressed, but not sure at what --- their bravery or their stupidity (I mean this in the best way possible). LOL

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel bad. No, I mean, the character who fell on Meltdown was not Gibbs. It's a terrorist who's dressed like him. This guy does apparently die, because he takes the fall and doesn't get back up. We're led to believe it's Gibbs, until we see he's actually up on the landing. Designed to scare the crap out of us for a second. Gibbs apparently ducked in the other direction.

As far as the stuntmen, I have no idea how they do that. Not my idea of a fun job, but I'd love faking my death by gunshot. That looks cool (ie, Split Decision, or even being in Sasha Alexander - not Kate's - position on Twilight)

Second, why on earth were you RUNNING DOWN a hill?!?!

School track meet - at the end of the day they were holding a tug of war and encouraged some of us watching on the hill to come participate. Limited room, so my friends and I ran. BIG MISTAKE!

Oh, ice is a menace. I consider myself a success when I make it through a whole year without falling. And curbs? I wiped out on one outside my bank and skinned my knee royally. It was such a treat.

But I seem to be prone to the dumbest injuries too. I once cracked my arm falling off the couch while home sick. I was wrapped up in a blanket and the phone rang. I tried to hurry to answer it, got tangled in the blankets and fell with the side of my arm striking the corner of the arm of the couch. Two days later I tripped over a suitcase and hit my other arm in the exact same spot on the corner of the wall. That one didn't get cracked, just bruised.

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[> [> [> [> [> Inside .... -- AmyLynn, 13:54:10 02/08/07 Thu [1]



Re it not being Gibbs: Yeah, I figured out what you meant after I sent my message. You clarified this once before...the fact just hasn't stuck in my head, yet! LOL

Re your dumbest injuries: I'm sorry, but I laughed. I could see it in my mind, and I just laughed. I completely understand how these things happen. And I emphathize, too, if that makes you feel better. (I hope so!) I bet you got alot of grief from your friends, too.

AmyLynn

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Don't apologize! -- Meg, 14:09:12 02/08/07 Thu [1]

I laugh now too when I think about it. And yes, I got a lot of grief. My aunt kept telling me "Watch out for the curb" for months after that. (Until she wiped out three separate times when going up stairs - don't worry, she wasn't hurt)

Even the doctor got in on the act. He's checking my arm and when I told him what happened he said they would need to wrap me up in cotton wool. Thanks so much!

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