1,2,3.....ON THREE

March 06-10, Tuesday-Saturday, 2012

Boy, did I look like a truck hit me. [NO LIE]

My sister came over and I looked HOT, well maybe that’s not the right word, hot with fever? [Yeah, better choice of words.] She was sweet and offered to at least to wash my hair. I asked how because I couldn’t stand or kneel. She calmly said I can put a chair in the tub. [My first shower chair]. Let me take a moment to describe the bathroom, a little.  The room itself was hmmmm 6 X 8, maybe. 1 window above the commode at opposite side of the doorway. When you walk in to the right is the sink and cabinet and medicine cabinet. To the left is a tub/shower enclosure. In between the two is tile. In the hallway is the closet. [And if you look……I feel like a tour guide] My sister helped me from the bed to the bathroom. Once we were in the bathroom, BAM-BOOM-BANG!!!! I fell. [ fall #3-you’re saying ‘wait, what happened to #2??] Yes, there was fall #2. I just don’t remember it, it involved the bathroom however.

I hit my head on the tub, on the way to the floor. I had to lean against the tub, sitting, for my sister to wash my hair. At least that part of me was clean. 3 falls in 1 day. The flu, even a really bad one, would not cause me to fall three times in one day.

I yelled down the stairs, to my mother, to call for the ambulance to take me back to the hospital, again….