Re: Chronically missing stairs and losing balance

[billd]

There are several reasons for this for me:

* ADHD – I lose concentration of what I’m doing (up or down stairs, I daydream) I often miss steps

* My vision – bifocals don’t help!

* My Meniere’s – pretty severe at times, I can fall down on a level floor. I’m on meds for that, and had to take some therapy sessions to teach my brain how to compensate. Looking down the aisles in a store can make me dizzy.

*This bloody @#%$@#$ strattera! Man this stuff is nasty!

Let’s see – split knee cap in half

Broken little toes at least 3 times

got hand in table saw, nearly lost index finger and thumb on left hand (I’m left handed)

several car accidents (one with broken collar bone)

torn bicep tendon (ripped it off the bone – yeah, my left arm again)

Is it me, or ADHD? Mom always said i was a very clumsy kid.

Now something to make you feel a bit better – my cat Yawnie loves to race us up and down stairs. One day I made a move to the stairs leading to the main floor but changed my mind. Yawnie got a good head start 15 feet behind me, ran to the stairs at full tilt, made the first two, missed the next, flipped and slammed his head into the next step, flew into the next with his back, and fell back down limp and twisted. He was out for a few seconds. He literally bruised a kidney, smacked his back and suffered head trauma.

So if a CAT, the sleek talented athlete of the animal world can do such things………. don’t feel badly if you miss a step or two.

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