falling on the stairs

Rather than reply to Michelle's comment I decided to put what happened in a new post.

Yesterday I was walking down the stairs squirting fabreeze on the carpet ahead of me. At the bottom of the stairs the hallways is tiled and I got the tiles wet with the fabreeze and I was in bare feet (as always). As I stepped onto the tiles my foot just shot out from under me. My toes smashed into the wall in front of me. I pulled the muscle in my calf. I fell backwards onto the steps withthe bottom of my back and both my forarms hitting the edge of steps.

At first I did think I had properly injured myself, I was just in so much pain in so many places I couldn't focus on any one thing or what was actually wrong. I was just sat there waiting for the pain to start to die down and it actually made me cry. I know I'm always saying things make me cry but that's emotional stuff. Physical pain doesn't usually make me cry but I was on my own and hurting so much and it didn't seem to be dieing down and I didn't know how badly I was injured.

Obviously the pain did eventually die down though and it probably didn't take as long as it seemed. It soon became obvious most of the painful bits were just bruised. I was then only worried about my toes which I did wonder if I had broken one or more and my calf as I know once the muscle has gone once it can keep happening so I was worried about it effecting training.

It hasn't been a problem though as time passed it became obvious my toes are ok and there has been no reoccurence of pulling the muscle in my calf.

The bruises are sore but they are just bruises. They kept me awake because I move around a lot in bed and the worst bruise is at the bottom of my back/top of my bum on the left hand side. It is all worse on the left as that was the foot that went out from under me so everything on my left hit first. So last night every time I rolled over to the left it hurt so i was trying not to and that was making it difficult to sleep.