For those of you that know me, falling is something that happens often. They range from minor tipples to catastrophic and, quite frankly, painful. This is not a fun part of MS, and it is incredibly common for people with MS to be mistaken for someone that is drunk due to falls and the way that they walk. I do not drink so if I fall, it is because my leg cannot hear the message that my brain is sending it. Even I have to admit that on many occasions, I do find myself lying of the floor giggling!

I am tempted to purchase one of those Sumo wrestler suits that you get to prevent bruising as I have discovered that I bruise like a peach!

Now I don’t mean to boast, but I have become a bit of a champion at landing. In most of my falls, I manage to twist myself so I land on something fleshy (my ass for example) rather than something bony (my knees and elbows). I am quite proud of this and of course, the physio did question whether I was good at landing so this must be quite common – there goes my grandeur thoughts of this being my superpower!

A terrible side-affect of falling is the bruising. I land on my ass at least every other day which does leave some colourful marks not much different to a baboon’s ass!

The funny fall story:

I was minding my own business and heading to the loo when out of nowhere, the ground must have risen or something like that to cause me to lose my balance. We have a unit next to the door that is being worked on so I slide down this whilst casually flicking the 12 kilo kettle bell that holds open the kitchen door aside with my toe. Unfortunately, this means that I push the door open further and knock out the stopper that is designed to stop the door opening any further, ripping out three floorboards. I say this is funny, not because I have destroyed my flooring but because there was a pile of washing on the unit being worked on which landed on my head!

Now Super Sarah claims that the delay in helping me was because she was doubled up laughing, not because she was taking photographic evidence. I am yet to believe her!

The painful all story:

I had changed into my pyjamas and had taken a seat on the closed toilet seat to brush my teeth. Apparently my PJ bottoms are slippy as before I knew it I was sliding right off of the toilet seat. Sadly, there was only one way to go from here. The toilet roll holder was next to me and I landed on it side-ways before we both crashed to the ground. Thankfully, there were no cracked ribs, the amount of vitamin D and calcium that I have to take paid off!

However, I did end up with a rather sizeable graze and bruise on my side and I will never look at the toilet roll holder as a friend, only my foe! Super Sarah was much kinder to me on this occasion.

Falling is a pride destroying incident, it can be downright humiliating if you are in a public place, however it does make for some brilliant stories!

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