Please take it easy David, these are the warnings you need to take more care. A friend in the UK had a fall outside the supermarket and hit her head on the concrete bollard. A day later the bruising started and t was horrendous. Take your time please, and pick those feet up.
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Seconded, thirded and fourthed.
David - ideally do not be on your own for the next 48 hours. If is very easy for head injuries in the elderly to cause subdural bleeds and these are insidious building up slowly but gradually impairing consciousness to the point that you might not be able to summon help yourself. The fact that you were “stunned” implies you should have a CT scan (or TDM if you prefer). Even if you were not on blood thinners, but doubly so as you are.
This is the Google Ai summary of the UK guidelines but it is correct AFAIK (see, knew that first aid training would come in handy sometime).
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It was only on the autopsy for my mother that numerous falls had previously triggered small bleeds. Eventually the big one came. Please listen to Billy.
David had a paramedic in attendance at his house, so hopefully he was well advised.
@David_Spardo please take care 
That actually worries me - David knows he was stunned, which means it’s quite likely he blacked out for a short time and doesn’t remember, plus he’s on blood thinners. Our paramedic should really have had him up to the nearest Urgences.
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It could be a good time not to be taking blood thinners only an examination in hospital could determine what course of action is best.
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Is there a way of knowing the time scale? David said he fell this morning and I assume he posted about it several hours later. When was his post about his fall made?
Two hours ago (the time of the post is at the top, on the right, opposite the username).
The NHS guidance is here: Subdural haematoma - NHS
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Err, yes, I was, 
, but to @billybutcher and others, I know I was conscious throughout, just taking things easy, assessing my position, and deciding on the plan of action to get myself to my feet, because I was rushing to get out as it was only 10 minutes to 12, and my phone alert alarme went off at 12 when Marie-Paule was here.
Have it all written down for the doctor on Friday and I would not be surprised if Mario hasn’t already told him as they are friends.
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Glad you’re ok, apart from the knock on the head. The last time I fell, from the bottom 2 or 3 steps, I fell with all my weight on my right hand and wrist. Broke 3 wrist bones which needed surgery. Not going to do that again. And I was in a hurry that time!
Glad to see you are back online - but watch yourself, any worsening symptoms like headache, nausea, getting muddled (see the list in the NHS guidance) get yourself to someone.
Yes, I am trying to move a little slower and lift my feet a little higher but it is the worsening memory that leads me astray, rushing to do things that I think of before the idea disappears, not in the forest but certainly yesterday.
BTW I have examined my broken specs of yesterday and have discovered that it is the frame that broke, the lense popped out without damage and this leads me to 2 thoughts about it. I have a bump on my head, about an inch above the cut and I think the cut was caused by the hinge, breaking it. it may be that I can buy a new frame and have my 2 lenses inserted in it. I will see in Nontron tomorrow when I go for my dental appointment.
As my favourite, Ian Drury, would say, reasons to be cheerful. 
EDIT, just read billy’s post, no headache, no nausea, and no muddling, other than the normal these days, but I do thank you for your concern and advice, and will take note. 
More concerned for Christine at the moment who was rushed back to hospital yesterday thus cancelling my agreed pm visit. No news so far this morning.
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I get those moments when a thought/question passes through my mind, one that immediately spurs me to want to ‘look it up’, or do something about it, but then it’s gone in a flash. I’ve learnt though that if I strive not to search for that lost memory, think about something else, then that lost thought invariably taps me on the shoulder a few minutes later all by itself while I’m doing something else.
But these are incidental thoughts that have no real earth-shattering consequence.
It’s knowing what’s important not to forget that’s important IMO. I quite often forget if I’ve taken my morning blood pressure pills. Just can’t remember if I’ve swallowed them. So, I have a glass full of water on the bedside table when I get into bed, and take my pills before I get out of bed the following morning. If the glass is empty, I’ve taken them, if not I haven’t.
It’s a simple strategy that seems to work for me.
Edit: I see from SF members that you had your 83rd in December. I had my 84th in December also, the 20th.
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Maybe think about a simple daily pill dispenser, but you’ve got to remember what day it is😉
My phone tells me. 
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Thanks, but I lose things easily, such as a pill dispenser - where is the bloody thing! The glass of water kills two birds with one stone - I never drink enough water and a full glass first thing in the morning is a good start to the day.
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Essential. don’t know if it is the same thing or not but I have a box with 14 compartments in it, 2 for every day. the day clearly marked on the top of each compartment and I have bought a 2 foot square digital clock which also has in large clear letters/numbers time, day, date including year. I just have to look up from where I take my pills to confirm what is due. Main problem is big pharma who totally refuse to use generic names which often means confusions as to which is which. one of my tiny pills has to be cut in half and for nearly a week I was getting half of one that needed and double what I needed of the other. 
Is it any wonder the state of my brain? 
@Bonzocat wow, someone actually older than me although of my bar friends in the village, one is 94 and the other 96. the 94 year old’s wife recently died at 101 in a care home. once I was at a communal meal with him and he had to leave early because he said his wife would not eat unless it was him feeding her. I am used to seeing aquaintances older than me having their deaths announced on the Mairie door but have a strange feeling of superiority when the named one is younger. Not too many of those out here in the French sticks. 
Slow down itinerant child..