Friday, November 7, 2014
Five X Five
I never love you
More than when you reach
Out, asleep, and take
Hold of my hand. Your
Body keeps me real.
-- Bethany W Pope
More than when you reach
Out, asleep, and take
Hold of my hand. Your
Body keeps me real.
-- Bethany W Pope
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Everything is fine. The paramedics just left....
Tonight Marv said he was going to take a little walk around the block. I had a meeting at the library, and about ten minutes after he left my ride came for me. I called home about 20 minutes later to see if everything was Ok. No answer. So I tried again after another 20 minutes and he answered, said everything was fine.
When I got home about an hour later, his elbow was hamburger, his eyebrow was split and swollen and there was blood all over his shirt. Apparently somewhere between Cancun Mexican Restaurant and the liquor store he fell. He says a bunch of ladies came out and surrounded him, the police came (again) and an ambulance brought him home.
I am overwhelmed with guilt, remembering another meeting I was at years ago. Linn was home with the little boys. I called home to see if everything was ok, and he answered, "Yes, everything is fine. The paramedics just left...." (Linn had been giving the little boys bike rides down to the school at the end of the street, and Jeremy got his foot caught in the spokes.)
When I got home about an hour later, his elbow was hamburger, his eyebrow was split and swollen and there was blood all over his shirt. Apparently somewhere between Cancun Mexican Restaurant and the liquor store he fell. He says a bunch of ladies came out and surrounded him, the police came (again) and an ambulance brought him home.
I am overwhelmed with guilt, remembering another meeting I was at years ago. Linn was home with the little boys. I called home to see if everything was ok, and he answered, "Yes, everything is fine. The paramedics just left...." (Linn had been giving the little boys bike rides down to the school at the end of the street, and Jeremy got his foot caught in the spokes.)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
911
I had to call 911 for the first time this afternoon. Marv and I went to the store. Before we were done, he said he was really really tired and I told him to go to the front of the store and find a chair and rest. I finished up and found him, we unloaded our bags into the car and were off to In 'n' Out for burgers, as we usually do on Tuesdays when I have my poetry meeting. In the line waiting for our burgers he mentioned again how tired he was. I said, "You would get stronger and not feel so weak if you'd walk a little every day." He leaped out of the car, angry. "I;m not going to listen to this all the way home!" he yelled as I tried to grasp his pants or his shirt to pull him back in. "Get back in here," I tried to sound like I had some kind of authority. "Right now!" "No," he said, "I am going to walk home!"
And he went lumbering off, heading north. I couldn't go forward or backward, and lost sight of him before I got out of the line. I tried to think what I should do. I looked for him until I knew he wouldn't have made it this far, and traffic was heavy, and it was 92* hot. I knew I couldn't look for him and drive at the same time, so I hurried home and called 911. Three big police cars arrived and took all the information I could give them--height, weight, hair color, clothing etc...and they went looking for him. An hour later they returned with him in tow. He had come quite a ways.
"I sure was glad to get a ride home," he told me. "I don't think I could have taken one more step!"
He had no idea why he was out there walking on the side of the road, alone. And a little later, he remembered none of it. As if it never happened. "Boy, am I hungry," he said. "What have we got to eat?" When I showed him his In 'n' Out burger, fries, and Pepsi he was delighted.
Our son Marc said he went out like a lion and in like a lamb! Yep!
Thanks to the folks at 911, and to those great police guys for finding him and bringing him home safe!
And he went lumbering off, heading north. I couldn't go forward or backward, and lost sight of him before I got out of the line. I tried to think what I should do. I looked for him until I knew he wouldn't have made it this far, and traffic was heavy, and it was 92* hot. I knew I couldn't look for him and drive at the same time, so I hurried home and called 911. Three big police cars arrived and took all the information I could give them--height, weight, hair color, clothing etc...and they went looking for him. An hour later they returned with him in tow. He had come quite a ways.
"I sure was glad to get a ride home," he told me. "I don't think I could have taken one more step!"
He had no idea why he was out there walking on the side of the road, alone. And a little later, he remembered none of it. As if it never happened. "Boy, am I hungry," he said. "What have we got to eat?" When I showed him his In 'n' Out burger, fries, and Pepsi he was delighted.
Our son Marc said he went out like a lion and in like a lamb! Yep!
Thanks to the folks at 911, and to those great police guys for finding him and bringing him home safe!
Monday, September 1, 2014
Golden Corral
We went out for lunch again today at the Golden Corral. We were supposed to meet with a couple of guests who didn't show, so we went anyway. Marv asked me at least ten times where we were going, and why. We filled up our first plate, me with salad, he with a plate FULL of chicken (which he has previously decided he doesn't like) and other stuff. He ate about half of it, looked at the rest and asked, "WHO put all this stuff on my plate?" :D He was really mystified....
He carefully wrapped up the chicken bones in a napkin for the dogs. Then he took the meat he had torn off and I put it in a plastic sandwich bag to take home for the dogs. He found the napkin-wrapped bones and asked, "What is this? We're not saving this for anything, are we?" Before we left he wanted to give me the bones. "Just leave them there on the plate," I said, and he did.
Had pink cotton candy for dessert!
He carefully wrapped up the chicken bones in a napkin for the dogs. Then he took the meat he had torn off and I put it in a plastic sandwich bag to take home for the dogs. He found the napkin-wrapped bones and asked, "What is this? We're not saving this for anything, are we?" Before we left he wanted to give me the bones. "Just leave them there on the plate," I said, and he did.
Had pink cotton candy for dessert!
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Don't Confuse Them
Doing his crossword puzzle amid a screeching of sirens going on outside.
Me: Wow! There is something exciting going on somewhere!
Marv: You should get in the car and follow them, and then you'll know what it is.
Me: Like I'm a news reporter....
Marv: Yeah. You can write PRESS on a piece of paper and put it in the window. Just don't write
IRON. It might confuse them.
LOL
Me: Wow! There is something exciting going on somewhere!
Marv: You should get in the car and follow them, and then you'll know what it is.
Me: Like I'm a news reporter....
Marv: Yeah. You can write PRESS on a piece of paper and put it in the window. Just don't write
IRON. It might confuse them.
LOL
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