Hey Matt , blimey what happened to you , to be honest I was scared to come on here for a long while !
I got a sense of relief from your post, you seem to be relieved you’ve come out the other side and now are able to offload it.
I fell off a roof.
I was cleaning about 15 windows on a reasonably level, very slight angled, roof. Tiled with wooden shingles. I don’t actually remember what happened but assume I slipped. The last thing I remember prior to hitting the deck is for a split second roof tiles passing in front of my eyes.
I landed on the ground, concrete, having fallen about 9 feet, just missing a metal bench. Landed on my shoulder and back of my head.
I had a double brain haemorrhage from the impact, broke my right shoulder, 4 ribs, punctured lung and punctured ear drum.
After three weeks I had a shoulder op which lasted 5 1/2 hours. I’ve got about 50 % use of my right arm. I do physio every day but it’s going to take a year for it to become as healed as much as possible.
My injuries were fairly severe. However, saying that, I also believe I was very lucky. Landing on your head like that caused all sorts of particularly nasty symptoms, especially immediately after the accident to about 10 days afterwards. I was lucky not to have died or ended up in a wheel-chair. Life then would’ve had a whole new perspective I’m not sure I would’ve been willing to tolerate.
Sold my business, sold my house and sold my van
