“I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up”
Filed under: Fambly - January 31, 2007 @ 5:43 am
So the other night around midnight, my mom had a bad dream and thrashed around and fell out of bed. My dad woke up and went to help her. He tried to get her up and back in the bed but she cursed him and told him to leave her alone.
So he did.
She remained there unmoving and unconscious until 4pm the next day, when she finally managed to rouse herself and crawl back in bed.
My sister and I would call and check in periodically. “Is she still on the floor?”
“Yessss,” my dad would report. “I thought about calling an ambulance, but I don’t feel like spending hours in the E.R., and the last time they couldn’t find anything wrong with her anyway…”
“Has she even gotten up to go to the bathroom?!”
“Welllll, since you asked…”
