Monday, January 01, 2007
One WOW And Two Ows!
The concert was great. Bob Seger worked hard and the performance was top notch! I’m very happy that Cindy took me to see it for a Christmas gift.
Then came the ows. The first being when the concert ended we were seated on folding chairs in the handicapped area because of size and bad ankles. I stood up to put my chair against the wall but I was dragging my coat in front of me as I turned. I literally walked up my coat and tripped falling forward onto the cement floor. I scraped both knees and landed with my hands out in front of me. As I hit I felt pain in the sternum area. The ushers and Cindy got me to my feet and into a wheel chair where they took me down to the main floor door.
Cindy and I then walked out to the truck to leave. She got in and turned the key and nothing happened. That was ow number 2. The Palace has a roving tow truck in its parking lot and some one called on their cell phone to alert them where we were parked. The tow truck driver jumped the truck and got it running and Cindy drove us to Wes’ house. I had debated going home but then thought if I made it home, then needed to go to emergency, and my truck wouldn’t start I would be in a bad situation.
I finally got to sleep about 2 am and woke up at 3:30 am. in pain. I could hardly sit up and ended up rolling out on my knees in order to stand up. I slept off and on sitting up the rest of the night. In the morning my daughter-in-law finally convinced me to go to emergency and drove me there. The x rays showed bruising in the rib area but nothing broken. But not so with my truck.
A tow truck driver got my truck running and my son drove it to the nearest Chevy dealer where we left it with keys in a envelope, and info on the outside for the dealership to work on it on Tuesday. I called Jay and he started working on setting up a loaner to use this week.
My son and daughter-in-law then drove me up to Vassar where the owner of Rent A Wreck graciously called one of his employees to get a loaner ready for me for the week. It was New years Eve morning and no one was at the business but they came in for me. So here we are with sore ribs, a broken truck some 40 miles away, and a lot of wonderful people going out of their way to help us get through the rest of the week filled with surgery, eye treatment and doctor’s appointments.
What a way for Wes to spend his birthday and I couldn’t help but think back 45 years ago.
What a way to end 2006 but at least 2007 will have to be better---right?
