Thankfully, last night I slept in my own bed despite an invitation to spend it in the University Community Hospital in London.

 Why?

Well, I’d just returned from my trip to the Alex Jeffreys workshop in Las Vegas,  jetlagged and extremely tired.  I hadn’t been able to sleep on the plane , or for several night prior to the flight because of all the ideas floating around in my mind.

Somehow,  whilst going up the escalator at King’s Cross station, I managed to do a backward flip over my suitcases and ended up in a heap at the bottom.

Like all accidents, it happened incredibly fast and I don’t really know what happened, but  I do know I’m  amazingly “lucky” to have escaped with a stiff neck, bruising and deep cuts on my legs where the points on the metal escalator steps gouged into the skin.

 Everyone was fantastic though and I’d like to thank the two gentlemen who pressed the stop button on the escalator, the first aider and railway staff who called the ambulance, the paramedics and the hospital staff.

 Apparently, my accident was not unusual and others have experienced far more serious injuries including broken necks.

 I passed out at the hospital and came to on the floor with an oxygen mask over my face, so today I’m counting my blessings and feeling incredibly grateful to have escaped with a course of antibiotics and instructions to visit my local GP.

 I think I was just really tired and hungry.

 Lack of sleep can do all sorts of things to you and when I chatted to the paramedics in the ambulance on the way to the hospital about their changing work shifts, they told me people who don’t get consistent sleep at the proper time (i.e. night and varied shift workers) have a reduced life expectancy of about 7 years.

 That’s awful isn’t it?

 Anyway, the moral of this story is to get quality sleep and don’t drag heavy suitcases up the escalators.

 Use the lift!

 Take care.
Jean Shaw

P.S.  Another word of advice – If you take antibiotics you MUST take probiotics to replace your good beneficial bacteria.

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