My brother, purple shirt, fell from the top of a 6 foot ladder.

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He was unconscious for a minute or so. Remembers being on the ladder and then waking up in the hospital 2 1/2 hours later. Cracked a couple ribs, injured his shoulder, and a bunch of bruises. He is pretty sore, but also mighty lucky. The way his partner man handled him a spinal injury would have been bad news.

The shoulder injury means he can't drive his manual transmission mustang for a while, so I have started calling him my shiftless brother. I am all prepared for when he gets better to calling him my shifty brother.

It sounds that placing himself head and shoulders above was a bad idea for your brother. Now your brother needs a shoulder to lean on and cry on, because it's going to be a while before he can shoulder his way through the crowd.

I hope your brother makes a quick and complete recovery and becomes shiftty again.

I'm in a punny situation too, because on Wednesday, I'll be short a leg to stand on.

Keith

Hope that is not a permanent situation.

Thanks, I am having a posterior root repair on my medial meniscus. I won't be able to put any weight on my left leg or bend my left knee for 6 weeks, so I'll be short a leg to stand on.. I then have 12 weeks of therapy and an expected 6 months until I recover as much as I can.

I think its good you can joke with your brother about his injury. I had a friend, whose face got partially torn off by his family's German Shepherd, when he was 4 years old. They replaced the missing skin with skin from his rear end. I occasionally called him butt face

Keith

Good thing his quick thinking buddy gave him some emergency neck and back adjustments before calling for help or it might have been really bad.

His partner needs some remedial first aid training!

I was cringing with how much his partner there was shaking him

you know the thing is they teach the shoulder shake in so many first response trainings , but ahhh cringe when it is s possible neck injury

Not a joking matter. Forty years ago I had a ladder go over backwards after shoveling my mother's porch roof. Landed on a concrete driveway. Sheared off 5 transversus processes from my,spine, 2 broken ribs, bruised lung, bruised kidney. No permanent damage,I was very, very lucky.^ weeks later I caught a pair of otters!

I did that last winter on a ladder sitting on frost. Fortunately the top of a framed wall caught my rib cage. I was fine after two months.

Darn good thing his feet were only 4 feet up that ladder. Hope he heals up healthy and fast.

Well said!

I think that is why step ladders say " Do not stand here " on the top two steps. But maybe not. Does any one other than the OP's brother know?

My fragile, osteoporosis and bad knee having, beautiful 60 year old wife was bound and determined to clean the gutter over the front door, but wanted me to hold the ladder. I raised my voice (I felt bold that day), and said, "NO, we are old. We pay people to do these kinds of things now."
She got mad as all get out (go figure, I just intimated that she was now elderly). I told her that if I held the ladder for her that I would shake it fiercely. She ran off in a huff.
A couple of years later, she stumbled over the dog, fell on the black top street and broke her hip, requiring emergency hip replacement. So all in all, I saved her a couple of years of pain by threatening to shake that ladder.
Now she pays someone to walk the dog twice a week.

My 80+ year old FIL fell from a step ladder and had brain damage. Lived about a week. Hit his head on a rock.