JFF - How Clutzy Are You?

Let me put it this way: I have an antagonistic relationship with gravity and I've needed stitches so often, I've learned to do them myself.

Good thing I have high pain tolerance. I've walked on a broken ankle for a few weeks, and often have to go get MRI/xRays when a 'sprain' isn't healing at the normal rate. Whoops. Broke it/ severed it/ tore the cartilage.

My doctor loves/hates me. On the upside, whenever I drag myself in he knows it's serious. On the downside, whenever I drag myself in it's serious.

I'm not klutzy as much as I rush too much! I can't count how many times I've tripped over the baby gate or stepped on a toy and went flying because I was rushing around. Or I've tried empyting the dishwasher real fast and instead of getting the glass INTO the cabinet, I end up smashing it into the shelf. Just dumb stuff. If I slow down, I'm fine :)

Sounds like you need more coffee or a new line of work ;)

Klutz? curbs, wall unit, walls, coffee tables, these stupid things attack ME!! LOL I think we can all be klutzes, especially females for some reason :)

Oh, Oh, Oh, I am a walking disaster.

- I have broken toes stumbling into furniture that has been in the same place for years
- Bent fingers backwards and pulled ligaments because I got them stuck on a door knob - um, a normal round one.
- Fallen over while standing still for no reason at all - ploop, just fall - I do this all the time - and its not anything explainable like weird inner-ear dizzy.
- Twisted my ankle last week walking through a parking lot - again, just ploop
- Find mystery bruises on thighs, shoulders, and upper arms, that I *think* I got from walking into doorframes in my own home. I should know where the doors are by now. LOL
- Trip over a dog gate at least once a day, every day, in my home.

My son is consistently amazed and dismayed at my clumsiness and my friends just wince and help me up off the floor.

Good Luck and God Bless and may we all survive ourselves.

don't want to be mean, but have you seen a neurologist? those are really serious falls and could be the result of something bigger.....take care of yourself!

I'm pretty klutzy, especially when I am ovulating or having my period or am over tired. I constantly run into the corners of furniture. My husband calls me bruiser because I bruise really bad (fair skinned).

I'm not a klutz.
I prefer the term "accident prone".
It all started, I guess, when I was hit by a car at 6. It happened in a parking lot and I was holding onto my mother. We both got mowed down. She wasn't hurt more than scraped up, but my injuries were serious.
I was in the hospital for a long time.
Then my little sister got mad and threw a bowl at me and split my forehead open.
I've had broken elbows, ankles, wrists.
I even broke my ankle walking bare foot on a flat surface. My ankle just rolled in such a way....I was in a cast for 8 weeks.
Just in the last few years I've had a broken leg (weed eating in the yard), a broken arm (trying not to break my leg again) and a broken rib just a month ago.
My doctor is going to have me do a bone scan to make sure I don't have brittle bones, but I have bumped the ironing board with my hip and broken a toe when the iron fell on it.
Neither of my kids have ever broken anything, thank God.

It if seems you're on a klutz roll, you just have to be extra careful, that's all I can say.
Get a helmet and pad yourself as much as possible.
Try to stay away from sharp objects.
:)

Best wishes.

My nickname growing up was Grace - for my lack of.
My very FIRST step at 9 mths I fell and broke my collar bone.
Rode my trike down basement steps - stitches in lip.
Bad car accident at age 4, we were hit by a drunk driver. Dad was in intensive care. I was emotionally damaged by all I saw.
Bike wreck at 5, hurt a hand.
Bike wreck at 8, did damage to a knee that is still a problem over 40 yrs later.
I have been observed riding my bike and just falling over.
I am no longer allowed to ride a bike - Drs. orders.
Took up tether ball and had more sprained fingers and wrists than I could count.
Explosion at 16. I had 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Lost a summer and healed without a scar! Praise God!
Torn ankle ligaments. Walked on that bad ankle for months because no one who saw me fall believed I could of hurt my ankle.
My mom once slammed me in the head with a cupboard door. We were playing. She really thought I would move, I really didn't think she would shut it.
I have had numerous heat strokes, stepped on many nails, sprained my back more than once. Cracked and bruised ribs from falls and car accidents.
My second drunk driver resulted in tearing the pectoral muscle.
Got drug several feet by the truck - I was driving. I would have swore it was stopped! (bad parking brake)
Tripped at work and almost finished the bad knee. It lost more function - again.
Fell in driveway around midnight in zero degree weather - and couldn't get up or reach my phone (slid under the car). It took over an hour to drag myself to the house.
I am now in a wheelchair due to autoimmune diseases. I have gotten stuck in mud, in doorways, between clothing racks, knocked over store racks, and ran into more than I care to remember.
I have ruined clothes running over them while wearing them.
My last drunk driver, we pulled in front of him to stop him from driving until police arrived. He rammed us repeatedly, not understanding why his car wouldn't move. BTW? I was on my way home from the ER when we found him!
Last week while trapped in my front door, I managed to knock down the door on the coat closet.

How do I out clutz thee ... let me count the ways LOL

at 3 I sliced up my legs trying to "shave" (this was before all the truely safety razors, with one of the old "safety" razors).

At 8 I almost sliced off my thumb trying to "help" cut up apples.

At 15 I cracked the back of my knee cap slipping on ice.

At 17 I broke my pinky toe tripping over a landscape timber because I was dodging my step-mom and step-sisters chairs they were "sunning" themselves in while running into the house to answer the phone.

at 18 I sprained my ankle breaking in the shoes I bought for prom. Prom didn't happen.

at 20 (ish) I broke my foot falling asleep on the bus.

In my 30's I cut my toe on a packing tape dispenser, it required steristrips. I sliced open 2 fingers trying to put together a trampoline, one required stitches.

At 44 I slipped on ice, broke in 3 places and completely dislocated my ankle.

Those are just the major injuries that I caused myself. I've had stitches twice because of my siblings and I regularly have bruises from running into stuff. Walls jump out at me and cabinets attack me. Oh and the furniture is a bunch of sneaky bastards, they change positions in the middle of the night.

How the hell I've lived to 44 with the most major injury being the recent broken ankle I will NEVER figure out LOL I guess it's true ... only the good die young ... and I'm certainly not that good LOL

Oh no, I too was hit by a car when I was young, lots of recovery time. All of my finger plus most of my toes have been broken at least once. Three concussions, once getting into my truck. Now I think my insides are getting klutzy too, since I have unexplained tumors on my thyroid and lymphedema. Sigh and all before I turned 30. But, it runs through my family at Christmas times we compare scars and once I had a cousin bring an X Ray. We wear our injuries proudly!

they don't call M. calamity jen for nothing=)

hmmm i walk into walls, (they move fast at you), trip up stairs, slip on dry floors, and everything else.....also I seem to have bad luck, and have been hit by 2 drunk drivers.......my daughter seems to have picken up this awesome trait, at 4, a dog bite which required stitches from a 9 week old puppy, a concussion from being hit by a toy swing at a party, and chemcial in the eye from hand sanitizer squirting 2 feet away right into her eye at the aqarium,,,that was all one month..........ugh I'm going to be in a mental institution if her luck doesn';t turn around...haha

OMG V. - you are a worse Klutz than me....

I am constantly tripping, but one leg is shorter and I have a damaged inner ear, so I'm dizzy (and ditzy) a lot. I slip. I fall. I cut myself in the kitchen with knives while chopping too fast.

I once heard that people who are klutzy had a lot of trauma in their childhood so they continually and unintentionally, rather subconsciously re-injure themselves. This actually holds true for me...what about you?

So, please, please try to be safer and be aware of your surrounding before suddenly moving...like I would have check for a clear head space before standing up suddenly, especially with a cash register door above your head....those things do pop open unexpectedly.

Take care and I hope all heals quickly!

I stapled my fingertip with an auto stapler. The pointy end was sticking out the other side. I work for an attorney, so accidents don't ever happen here, and I am willing to bet I am one of way less than ten work comp payments he's ever had to pay out. A coworker was kind enough to name my stapler "Jaws" name tag and all. :) I still get a little nervous when I staple (and I have to do it a lot!) I agree with other posters, we as mom's all just need to slow down a little bit sometimes! :)

After leaving church last night I walked outside to the path down to the main building to get my children. I know that there is a rise in the pavement from the stone drive but it was raining out and pitch black. So I walked very slowly and when I saw the rise int he pavement I stepped up over it....or at least I thought I did and going full speed ahead I kicked the pavement and took a full all out spill right there on the pavement, skinning my hands, foot, knees and putting a hole in my new favorite jeans. I'm so sore today in my neck and shoulders and feel like such a klutz. I've tripped there before too but my husband has been there to help me...but not this time. Oh well....

Slow down sister! LOL. I am a clutzy person too--- I have fun every day and its not uncommon for me to walk straight into the wall sometimes.

M

I run into walls. Seriously.

My husband calls me clutzy. I have some fabulous dance moves, so I am not sure how that could be possible.
=)

I am just always rushing around sometimes literally running from room to room and I don't pay close enough attention to what I am doing. Therefore, I run into things. Walls jump out at me.

I am sorry you got so hurt! At least my wall run-ins rarely leave a mark!

* EDIT - I didn't read all the answers before I posted mine - I am so happy I am not the only woman attacked by walls!

There was a three week period in my life that everything happened to me. Car crash, 2nd degree burn on arms and face (thank you for not scaring!! Thanks to lavender oil! Remember that!), sprained ankle during a perfromance (I had a police escort to the hospital with that one. That would be twice ridding in a police car and both times in the front seat!) Sunburns, heat stroke, that was one fun 3 weeks. Knock on wood that it will never happen again!!

I used to be very clutzy as a kid and teenager. When I got married, it seemed to get better, but in the last couple of months it seems to have come back. My clutziness is usually spilling things and minor bruises, nothing major.