Falling for Louise

                               Louise and Georgia. June, 2022, Raccoon Valley RV Park

You may have noticed that this blog didn't appear on Monday. I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, unless life gets in the way. Life got in the way.

I am a lifelong, world-class procrastinator, so my blogs usually get written the night before they're posted. Sometimes, late the night before. Occasionally I get two or three posts written in advance, but it's usually the night before.

Sunday evening, when I would have been writing my blog for Monday, we were at the University of Tennessee Medical Center Emergency Room. In fact, we were there from about 11:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. Louise had another fall.

This wasn't a horrible fall, like the one on May 12 of this year, but any fall is bad. And it happened in the same place -- on the choir loft steps at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church.

This time, she slipped and fell backwards, getting a bump on her head, a bruise on her hip, and an abrasion on her elbow. Bad enough. The EMTs who came didn't consider her injuries sufficiently severe to require an ambulance, but recommended we take her to an emergency room, just the same. So we did.

We arrived, as I said, about 11:30 a.m. She was seen reasonably quickly, and x-rays and MRI scans were made within a couple of hours. Then we settled down to wait for the scans to be read so she could be admitted or released. And waited.

And waited.

There was a massive pile-up on Interstate 40 that tied up the ER for hours. In fact, it was around 10 p.m. before her scans and x-rays were read and we were told we could go home.

Louise slept fairly well last night and did some napping today. By this evening she was about back to her normal self. She thinks she will have to give up choir, though, which is sad. She has been singing all her life. She was a music major at Florida State and gave a voice recital. Her voice is unusual for its beauty and clarity.

Louise has had many falls over the years, some of them serious. But she keeps on going. She is the most courageous person I know. She has an indomitable spirit. I pray she will stop falling. I want to keep her a good while longer. 58 years is not enough.

 

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