Thank you for your comments, its too late for me but I thought I would post this and maybe save someone from the same fate. I am grateful it was not worse.
Clarification on the my switch confusion
"fumbled with the switches, next to the entrance door, and turned the step switch off and on again and did not realize that locked the steps in the closed position. When I opened the door and expected the steps to be out and they were not down I went."
See the labels on the switch photo below
I assumed the steps were out when the switch was in the out position.
Upon reading my 2003 Itasca Sunrise 36m manual it shows a photo of the switches however in the manual it reads STEP ON OFF our motorhome as you can clearly see is labeled STEP IN OUT.
Anyway please note the operation of your steps and be careful.
Sincerely,
Bob