I too have enjoyed your stories from "The Home", it's fun to know that your enjoying yourself and willing to share your positive insights on what many feel would be a dreary and drab life.
The end of your story is what really caught my attention. You said "The fact that if I ever fell I could not get up by myself was part of my decision."
Wednesday my dad (he's 88) fell. He called the neighbors who got in touch with me. He wouldn't let anyone call 911, wanted to wait for me. I'm only 4 miles away. I arrived, he was sitting upright on the floor in obvious pain. He wanted me to get him up and with much difficulty I did and got him his chair where he was comfortable. He couldn't put any weight on his right leg and told me he thought he had broken his hip. I calmly discussed with him what HE wanted to do. He said well pretty soon I'm going to need to pee and I won't be able to get to the bathroom so I guess you better call an ambulance. Today is his 3rd day in the hospital, his pelvis is fractured in 2 places. He's actually very lucky he didn't break his hip, but he is in a tremendous amount of pain. No surgery, he just has to let it heal (sort of like broken ribs of which he's had 9 of over the years) and then do therapy. Doc said he will be in hospital until Monday, then we move him to a home for therapy. I told him he has 2 choices now, he can consider this the beginning of the end and just lay in bed OR consider it the beginning of learning to walk again if he does the therapy. He is really down in the dumps right now, I'm trying to keep him positive. He had both his knees replaced about 1 1/2 years ago and was walking everywhere after being wheelchair bound for quite some time. He wanted his independance and wanted to live alone which was the reason for the knees. Amazing how that can change in a second.
Graydon, it sounds like you made a wise decision for not only yourself, but for your wife and son.
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