this is my grandmother betty joy. she fell and broke her hip on wednesday when she was trying to step over her electric blanket cord. luckily she fell close to her phone because she never wears the alert necklace that she has and she lives alone. she had surgery last night and i haven't heard how she is yet execept that she was in quite a lot of pain and the morphine they were giving her wasn't helping so the doctor gave her some diloted which is much stronger. she slept on and off through the night and when she woke up my aunt said she saw the doctor and thought he was incredibly handsome and sweet and flirted with him all day. he had been to iraq to care for the soldiers and she was quite taken with that.
we lived really close to my grandparents when i was growing up. they lived on a lake in a canyon and we lived on the rim so i used to hike down when i'd get bored. my grandfather had a paddle boat and cane poles to fish with and a peach and nectarine orchard. he was always trapping racoons and shooting them or bitching about his china berry trees or sitting on his back porch drinking jim beam and soda. my grandmother and i played gin rummy and she taught me to play her organ and i would thread the needle on her sewing machine when she couldn't see it. i love her and i miss her and i hope she recovers quickly.
hugs,
chelsea
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it sucks getting old, it's so strange to think that such a simple fall can be such a traumatizing ordeal. my grandpa recently went through the same thing. i hope your grandma is alright, best wishes.
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