Thanks guys. I'm Okay. Bruised the back side of my right ribs.
I was kneeling on a piece of particle board.
When I shifted my 240 lbs, that board exploded and in less than a second I was on my back on the floor 8ft below from where I was.
Slammed my head pretty hard.
Went to the ER and Had a catscan.
They didn't say what they saw, They just released me
No Christmas lights got put up after that.
next morning I went to HD and bought one of those pull down attic ladders.
I didn't start to really hurt until about halfway through installing it.
I was determined to finish it.
It wasn't the ladder that caused the accident.
No really sure why I had to get that ladder installed.
I think it was my pissed off excuse not to have to hang lights and I wasn't going to let the fall win.
Kind of like getting bucked off a horse, picking your a$$ up and climbing back on. Some people might just call that being stupid.
The stupid thing was that I was careless. I knew that board wouldn't hold my fat ass and should of keep my weight on the ceiling joist.
I have a 3/4 sheet of 1/2" plywood up there now and a nice sturdy ladder for when I put all that crap away in January.
Today I put up my Xmas lights.
here's a picture of the back of my arm that hit the work bench on the way down