Random things...........

Dad had an accident January 14th, 2009. This had been my first day back to the gym. I had a really nice time. Stretched, eclipsed, walked and streched some more. I was all cleaned up and almost on my way out the door to go to work. Thats when Mom called and told me Dad had fallen and they were going to ride in the ambulance to the hospital.
Luckily, I was right next door and I just switched parking lots and waited in the ambulance bay for the ambulance to arrive. An hour later they pulled up. The church was only a 5 minute drive away.
They brought Dad in on a strecther and place him in the hallway since he was not serious. So for the next ten hours we waited. He had a cat scan, x-rays and two MRI's. He had only broken bone fragments near his lower back and cracked some ribs. But he had a knot on the back of his head. At first he said his left eye was blurry. Then his eyes were giving him double vision.
Many people from the church came by the hospital. People who had been upstairs visiting their own loved ones came down to check on him. I think I counted about 35 or 40 total.
Finally around midnight they placed him in an ER room. The hospital guest in the room next door was Helen, a homeless person I know from the county jail. Where I work. While they were getting Dad situated I talked to Helen.
Later that week he was sent home and told to rest. A kind nurse from the hospital gave him a lift chair and a neighbor lent him a really nice walker.
The bones are healing. And the doctor says it could be three months to two years before his eyes are normal again. The double vision still gives him problems so he wears a black eye patch.
Now Mom has told me they are going camping this week and that she will be driving the truck pulling the camper.
So if you see a blue chevrolt truck with Kansas mud flaps pulling a camper, get out of the way.