Just call me Grace | pad patter 2.11.20

LOL! I totally relate to this! I'm soooo like this, I always find purple marks on my knees and and ankles, the other day I had a scratch mark on my arm and can't even remember when I hit it! lol

 

I am klutzy too!!

 

I am not so klutzy that I fall but I do end up with mysterious bruises quite often. Some I know exactly how I got them but mostly I don't. But I do bruise easily so even a minor bump would cause a bruise.

 

No, you're not. This is coming from the person who's had two broken toes within 7 months because I've stubbed my toe on something in my house.

 

I'm not super klutzy, but weird things happen to me. I get my purse strap caught on everything - it's getting to the point of being funny. If there's one little thing sticking out, I'll get hung up on it.

 

Grace was my dad's nickname for me when I was a little girl because I was so clumsy. Still am to this day. I will trip over my own feet and often going up stairs. Today I smashed my pinky finger because I had it on the arm of my desk chair, spun it around, and got it caught between the chair arm and desk. My thigh is currently bruised for some reason. I always have bruises somewhere on my body. I bang my knees on my desk at work at least weekly. I sprained my ankle doing a celebration dance in college because I got an A on a speech. I've broken several toes on furniture. I seriously walk around with one hand free at all times so that I can catch myself if I trip.

 

I'm laughing out loud, Kayla. It's ridiculous! I amaze myself at the "things" I get my purse strap caught on. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

 

My DH always called our oldest DD "Grace".

 

I still hear him in my head to this day "You ok, there, Grace" "Have a nice trip, Grace?" Makes me smile.

 

Same here, Jan. We all still laugh about it.

 

I used to be klutzy as a teenager as I was 5'7 by 7th or 8th grade. I think some of that is normal growth klutziness because I was really good at ballet but tended to miss the edge of the couch or doorways. Then I had many years of being just fine. However, I'm noticing my balance is not the greatest any more & I blame that on one leg being slightly shorter than the other since I had my knee replaced. The new knee/leg is fine but year by year the other one is kind of getting wonky. Not knee pain or anything else, just wonky.

But last year after dh and I had gone to specialist after specialist, before he was diagnosed with the cancer, I know it was winter cause one day when I put a short sleeved top on to go under a sweater, I saw that my whole upper right arm (inside) was terribly bruised! I panicked and went to the Dr. thinking I had some blood disease etc etc She said these things happen to old folks...it was a bit of comic relief but took several weeks to go from black and blue through that yellowish green to ok. I hope it never happens again!

 

Graceful I am not.....I’ve fallen up stairs, down stairs, over tree roots that were under concrete and to top it all off I have the knack of falling on flat surfaces too.

 

I was especially klutzy as a kid and would even run into trees in the yard is I was running around with my sister. As it turned out, I just couldn't see where I was going! I was born with bad eyesight and as soon as my Mom took me in for glasses I had WAY fewer accidents. Ha ha! I'm now what I think of as a normal level of klutzy. I do tend to find random bruises on myself and wonder how they got there.

 

I'm not as clumsy as I used to be, thank goodness. My 10yo daughter is currently working through this as she spills her drink, walks into things, drop things, etc. all the time. I am hoping she will grow out of it, too!

 

I have fallen upstairs, twenty years ago or so.
Nothing recently.
I can be preoccupied and not always totally present in thought.
Not klutzy though and hardly graceful.