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I would love to say that I am perfectly safe out in the big bad world but the reality is that I am beyond clumsy. I literally trip over flat ground in flat shoes.

Last week I had to take the Aussie’s Brother to hospital and I texted my mum to point out that I had been in Australia for more than 7 months and this was my first visit to the Hospital. This was indeed a milestone as I am a frequent visitor to the local hospital where I live in the UK and so the expectation is I would be the same in Australia but wasn’t….

Last time I was in Australia I stepped down a set of just two steps and landed on my ankle. This was literally about 2 hours before I had to leave the house to board the plane back to the UK. Luckily the plane was pretty empty so I could lie down and rest the ankle but I felt pretty sorry for myself on that journey home.

I did the same thing a couple of times but it wasn’t so bad but last May when walking to work and talking to my friend I fell over and was in agony. I swore I heard something crack and after admitting defeat, hopping on a train home (literally) I went to the hospital and was told to come back in the morning for an X-Ray. The X-Ray suggested I had finally broken the ankle and I was put in plaster.

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Now not only am I lethal when walking, I am deadly to myself when using crutches. I had been given them before and stopped using them because I almost fell over, a lot. This time I had no choice due to the plaster and thankfully when I went back to the hospital the next day they confirmed no break but wanted me to have physiotherapy because of the frequency of my tumbles. I did that and all seemed well.

Sadly my run of good luck ran out last night. When walking out to the “lovely” outdoor loo (this morning I discovered a huge brown spider possibly a wolf spider, a St Andrews Cross spider and another spider of unknown species) I stepped off the concrete stand the house is on and found myself on the ground with a grazed knee and throbbing ankle wondering how exactly I was going to stand up.

I managed to stand and walk on it pretty well and today it is just a bit sore. I am of the view that I have tripped over on the ankle so many times it just bounces back! Of course this evening when I got out of the car I dropped my iPad on the ankle and the throbbing returned, Ouch!

Hopefully I will now return to my non dangerous self but if not…

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