Can I write a blog by talking? Here's a chance to find out. FALLING, FALLING, FALLING. I have fallen, six, seven times on this trip. First, in the airport in Brasilia, in Brazil. I don't know what I was doing, I twisted around with my luggage and actually a few minutes earlier I had lost my phone and I was fit to be tied. A guard found it, tangled up in the luggage carriage that I had used. So I was obviously not in the best of the frame of mind. When I fell like it was on a rug. I did spread a lot chocolate chips all over the place.
Since then, in Oaxaca have now fallen six times. The first two times were simply careless. One I was taking pictures near a little park and I tripped on a curb, I thought I could make it. And I didn't. Smacked my face in cement on the left side. I had a black eye and a goose egg, and I lay there. Well, a guy came up and said okay, just don't do anything and we'll call a Medico, And of course I was bleeding onto the sidewalk. A woman handed me some Kleenex to wipe up the blood, and I sat down on the curb, and waited for a while and nobody showed up. So I decided to hell with it. I'm going to go ahead and go back to the hostel. And I was able to find it on the phone with the map.
Second time I was just outside my room, and there's a kind of airway, right next to it, and I had dropped something from for my window and so I stepped down but I miscalculated and fell right on my head again against the cement. Luckily only my hip was aching, and that was the same left as before.
The next four times were actually in my room. And they were from dizziness. I tried some supplements from Mexico, supposedly to help with the virus, or anti virus, anyway. And they made me dizzy as hell. So in the middle of the night. I fell at least two times. Once right on my pee can, so I had piss all over my room and I had to clean it up at two in the morning, and I did it one more time, and the same kind of thing. I had to clean pee up at two in the morning.
And then I had two more times. One was in the room, and didn't seem to do much damage except it skinned the hell out of my left elbow. The next time it happened was in the coffee shop where I go. I bent down to pick some postcards off the shelf. And when I stood up too quick, I passed out, and I didn't actually realize I fell until some guy came up to me, an American guy and said, Are you alright. Damn, I had passed out again. So, this is getting to be
monotonous and not very healthy.
I did read once years ago that after 65. You will fall. And I don't know how often that means, but it's how people break their hips. Of course I hit my hip. Every time my left hip, and it didn't break, but it's still sore right now. Now the only time I had this kind of occurrence was probably about eight years ago. I increased my dose of Prozac. And that made me feel very good, but it also made me careless.
Now one thing I know is that you cannot, it is impossible to multitask. And if you are trying to multitask, you're getting in the way of yourself. You can only do one thing after the other. So be really careful when you're stepping, when you're walking to do one thing at a time. Climbing a ladder, don't be thinking about a girlfriend or whether you want to fly, or hat you're going to paint. Just don't do it. And if you're driving a car, you may zone out. I can probably can still exist with that. But at some point when I get older I will not be able to zone out and keep control of the car, and that's why people have to stop driving at a certain age.
Now, at 81 I thought I would not live this long, and I wasn't planning on living longer than this. I came into Mexico and I thought, well this would be the end of it, but I just keep on going. So, I don't know exactly what's going to finish me off. As long as I don't start drinking and step in front of a car, hopefully I will be okay. But the sidewalks here are treacherous, the motorcycles run up and down the streets like crazy, and they go around cars so you don't necessarily see them. So this is my warning to me that I had better watch my step. Okay, falling, falling, falling, just like Alice down the rabbit hole.
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