Actually, I didn’t. I walked out onto the driveway today, with the intention of driving out to buy today’s paper. I have never hit the ground so hard or so fast. The effing driveway was so slick that I didn’t have any time at all to react to falling on my ass. I’m just really grateful that the only thing I have going on now is a significant yoink in my neck.
Ouch!
Hie thee to your local chiropractor. Mine told me that slip-and-fall accidents account for as many cases of whiplash as car accidents in the patients he saw when he was up north. He doesn’t see quite so many slip-and-falls in Florida. 
How’s your coxix?
Lucky indeed. I broke my ankle once falling on the ice.
We’re expecting some freezing rain here today. I have all I need to stay in all day.
You are so lucky, assuming all that you’ve suffered was a strained muscle. The last time I had a slip like that I broke my coccyx. Six weeks of nuisance pain, and there’s damn-all medical science can do for it.
Sorry you fell, but I’m glad you’re walking. I had an almost identical experience, jumping out of a car onto a wet metal grate; literally hit the driveway before I knew what happened. Severed my right quadriceps tendon and had my first ambulance ride.
Most injuries happen like that – nothing dramatic about the circumstances, just doing an everyday activity. I’d definitely have the neck checked if it’s still sore tomorrow.
Neck is better today. I’m damn grateful I didn’t break something, because I hit the ground really hard.
And I really hate winter.
My Chiro has a deal where patients on a certain day get their payments sent to a Christmas toy program. If I can make it a week, they get my money.
oops, sorry, I thought this was a thread about donkey abuse.
Ordinarily I have extremely good balance and I take special care when treading on ice. One of the few (and definitely the most surprising) times that this did not work out for me was on my way to work one morning, where I think I hit an exceptionally smooth patch. I step, both of my legs fly straight out in front of me and I land squarely and soundly on my ass. I’m absolutely sure that to any observer it was a picture perfect cartoon moment, complete with the momentary dangling at the apex. Fortunately I didn’t break or even pull anything important, but I walked gingerly for the rest of the day.
I was expecting something more scatological.