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OriginalGriff2-Jun-23 19:45
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Yesterday was a long day: I went shopping early, and got back just after 08:00 to find Herself on the floor unable to get up. Some querying later and she was trying to refill the cat treats tub by standing on the arm of an armchair which promptly tipped her off and she slammed to the floor.
Now, I do know enough that if I try to pick her up, I'll make things worse - she weighs more that I do - so it's time to call for emergency services. With help over the phone, I get her up and sat down, but it's clear everything is not right, she's in huge amounts of pain when she moves. Two hours later an ambulance arrives to check her, and her left arm is injured - broken or dislocated, we're not sure but either way it's off to hospital which everyone was trying to avoid - at that point one ambulance had been sitting outside the A&E / ER waiting to unload a patient for 22 hours!

So she gets walked (very slowly) to the ambulance, and I follow it down. Ten minutes after we arrive, she's been triaged and sent to a special clinic - OPAS or "Older Persons Assessment Service"* And there she stays, x-rayed, diagnosed, and in pain while they try to sort it all out. She's broken her humerus right near the top which is a pretty bad idea since they can't put a cast on it, just a frame to try and hold it in one place. She has to wait, and wait for a consultant to get round to looking at it. He suspects she also has some osteoporosis so we'll have to look at that later as well.

And there I stay as well: in a tiny waiting room with no aircon but a heater I can't turn off and a gentleman who had been there since 23:00 the previous night. His phone is flat already, mine is well on the way ... Neither of us thought to bring a charger. Laugh | :laugh:

Finally, we get home about 18:00 and get her settled, fed, pilled, and sorted - she has to sleep sitting up for a while (so she can't roll over) so she'll be downstairs, and I'll be up. Neither of us get a good night's worth: every time she moves it hurts, and a lot - which wakes me up as well. The cat is sulking because things have changed and he doesn't like that, not at all - I have have lost my nightly foot warmer.

04:00 and I get up - it's silly lying there awake trying to not wake someone who isn't really sleeping either.

As I said, I'm knackered.

And you want to know the funny bit? She has to do 15 training courses every year for work - one of which is a "health and safety" course which devotes a good quarter of it's runtime to "Don't stand on chairs" ... Laugh | :laugh:
She won't do that again.

* Why do I suspect the acronym came first and some German humour was involved, given that "Opa" is German for "grandfather"?
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