Terry Prone: Falling over backwards to give me a hand with my broken arm

The stool went out from under me and my brief flight ended with me on my back, with the crystal clarity that my arm was broken in two places

Terry Prone broke and dislocated her elbow and wrist after falling off a stool trying to reach cat food.

If I admit I was standing on a barstool when it happened, you will go judgmental on me, but that’s the truth of it. 

It was a tall kitchen barstool with a small back on it. Safe as houses, that barstool, except when a fool stands up on it in order to get cat food out of a high press. That’s the point where things can – and in this case, did – go wrong.