Another fall

I fell again today. That's my second fall in 2 weeks.

The first fall was last week. I was walking down some stairs, and while swinging the stiff leg down to the next step, the socket came off my stump. This left me putting weight on a leg that was not lined up with my stump. Fortunately I was hanging on to a strong banister with my right hand. I quickly grabbed it with my left hand, but I was already most of the way down. I hurt my right elbow. It took lots of twisting strain.
Since then I have gotten a different socket.

Today I walked to get an ice cream cone. As I entered the fast food place, there was a guy eating an ice cream cone, and two families waiting for food they had ordered.  I reached the counter, and was ordering, I had both hands resting lightly on the counter top. 
All of a sudden my face hit the credit card machine, then my chin bounced off the counter, and I fell on my ass. My knee had collapsed, and  as it collapsed, it went forward and hit the counter front, and that made the socket go rear ward about a foot. This unexpectedly pushed me backwards, and I fell on my back, with my head under a table.
I slowly sat up, and started to check if my knee had failed. My sore right elbow was the only thing that felt hurt.
The lady with a small girl grabbed the crying girl and yelled, "Come we are leaving now. Come!" and she dragged the crying child around me and out of the shop.
The guy was still licking his ice cream cone.
I slowly managed to get up, and walked to the counter. The girl behind the counter had not moved. She said "That's 5 rand 50."
The woman of the other family then asked. "Are you OK?" She hadn't moved, in fact none of the family had moved. I said I was OK.
I took my ice cream out side, and worked on my knee. I looked at those people, and thought..."I bet they all go to Church on Sunday."
 I don't know why it collapsed. I am sure I am to blame.

Day 101 - Lazy Sunday, and first fall

We slept poorly, and so slept late.

I made both of us coffee.

 I never liked it when disabled people tell about their challenges in day to day life. Real people build cities, and create new drugs, fly airplanes, and I get pride from conquering making coffee. It sort of feels pathetic to me.

We both had a lazy Sunday. I sat in the garden and read my book.

Lots of phantom pain. Most of the day. I couldn't even nap.

The router quit, and when I leaned over to check it, my new chair scooted out from under me. I fell backwards. I got such a fright. Fortunately I landed on my head instead of my stump, so nothing important got hurt. We got a real wake up call.
Now we think a larger chair with wider spaced wheels would be better. I still like the freedom the wheeled chair gives me.

My fantasy football team will be a close game this week.

I hope I can sleep well
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phantom limb pain of increasing
severity to be associated with locally recurrent extremity sarcoma in two patients, In both patients
increasing phantom limb pain was the first indication of recurrent cancer and led to radiologic studies
and biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis of recurrent disease. It is suggested that phantom limb pain
of progressive increasing severity may be a symptom of locally recurrent cancer in an amputation stump.