Posted by KathyHowe on 7th February 2008
Categories: People
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Last week my Grandma took an unplanned trip. Not one of those fancy ones either where someone serves you drinks with umbrellas. This was the trip and fall kind of trip. The kind that some people bounce back up from with relative ease. In Grandma’s case, this particular trip netted her a trip to the hospital, a broken femur, shoulder and hip and surgery to install rods and pins on all three broken bones.
If you are gonna take the time to fall you might as well give it yer all.
Grandma is still in the hospital and the most unfortunate thing about her very long hospital stay is the fact that she is two plus hours away from me, my siblings and my mother. This makes getting to the hospital to spend time with grandma, talk to doctors and coordinate her after-care incredibly challenging when we all have our own home and work responsibilities to tend to.
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