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Sunday, March 27, 2005

 
well, boy did i have a 'fun' easter.

firstly, i should explain about my great-aunt. she is 93 and when she was in her late 70's i took her to a mall and lets just say, she was the fucking energizer bunny.
she has had 5 husbands. last one died in the car in the garage, but he was a schnook.
in the 70's, she survived a brain tumor and surgery. she has had back surgery. she has been living alone in her ranch house. and she hates bush.

well, of course we are having easter out at auntie's. for once, we get out there early. well, auntie fell in the bathroom and was on the floor in an odd position. my mom, aunt and i manage to get her on a chair. she had been there since early in the AM.
call uncle and bro, they get out there as soon as they can and FINALLY mom calls for an ambulance, as there was no way to get her to a car.
gets there quick and it's a man and a woman. just in time as auntie needs to pee. they get that done, but getting her to the stretcher. ooh boy. auntie cannot lay down flat. which complicates things, but they finally got her on the stretcher.
she then tells my bro to get the red bowl. red bowl? red?

also need to explain. for my whole life, in the archway between the 'dining room' and livingroom has been a cardtable filled with bowls full of M&Ms, little candy bars, nuts and all sorts of grazing snacks.

the red bowl was a bowl with bissinger chocolate hearts WHICH she insisted the ambulance people toke(she has done this to anybody who ever visited for years). of course they must accomodate the old lady or they can't get her to the hospital.
this certainly made us laugh.too bad mom missed it as she had gone to walk to the hospital 3 blocks away.
when the left and while we waited, put the ham in to warm up, watched the badgers lose, and got the dinner ready. luckily already done.
ham was not heated, but micro works.
mom came back while there was a wait on X-rays.
well, as to be expected-broken hip. but she did get morphine for the pain(auntie can't do tylenol due to heart and stomach). so. she and my mom rode in ambulance to my mom's hospital in milw. west bends has some issues.
mom reports that auntie was being very auntie on trip and at hospital.
oh boy is she gonna drive those nurses mad.
so, i would say her spirits are fine after all she went through. better than our generation would.
what a day.

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