[Gpdd] Announcement: Out of touch again

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Reading today's GPDD's (I'm really still back in the 50's so I'm really 
behind.) I'd hoped to wish Lynn well before her surgery. I hope, and feel sure, 
that it will all go well! You're too neat of a person not to quickly spring back.

     My father --he'll be 85 in July -- has been staying with me. He was 
outside on the 20th. We were having lots of snow and he went to sweep our vehicles 
off.
     He stepped on an snow covered   icy area and broke his ankle and leg. He 
had surgery this past Monday tho the put him in a temporary cast the 
preceding Wed.
     The whole thig was very dramatic and heart rending - he had to drag 
himself across snow covered drive and up my long ramp. My nurse was here that day 
as I was having an IV infusion of several hours duration and heard a dragging 
noise on the ramp. She went to investigate. He wouldn't let her help him so 
she then came into the bedroom and told me. I was carrying my pump and IV 
medicatin and trying to figure out a way to help him. He said the best way was to 
let him continue on his own.
     His leg was straight and his foot turned at an awkward angle. He looked 
so vulnerable and yet determined.
     I ran to call 911 and nurse did something very clever. She spread a 
blanket down on floor in the door way and after he was on it she dragged it (and 
him) to the middle of the living room.
     Paramedics cut off his boot and it was terribe looking. Nurse said she 
had only seen such breaks in text books in college. My father was amazingly 
great about it all. Anyway, my local daughter had taken that morning off from 
work and so ended up staying home all day -- or, more accurately, stayed at ER 
with him. Bless her hear.
     They are keeping him for therapy, etc. for another 10 days which is 
good.
     Anyway, I'm way   way behind on my GPDDs and emails. Plus there's 
another medical sitution going on in the family.

     Sorry to be so neglectful of you wonderful people but wanted to let you 
know what was going on. also, if anyone emailed me and got it back because my 
mailbox "is full" -- try again.

     Hey -- did Fugly ever get to do his Princess of the Desert thing?

     Charlie is wheeeking around wanting to send messages to Yaya, Igor and 
all of his "buds."

Alge and Charlie, Jolly Rodent 


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