What a gruesome day.. my mum has finally come home after a very unpleasant day. She left the house just before 11.15am and at 11.25am, she was lying injured in the road.
She was walking fast up Pont Street when she remembered her bus pass was in another jacket, so she turned around and walked towards home.
She is very careful crossing roads and was half way across one, just about to pass behind a stationary car which was waiting for another car let it go ahead, when, suddenly a van came charging towards it forcing the car backwards.
He saw her too late, she tried to get out of the way but fell.. luckily to one side and not underneath his back wheel. There was a screech as the van saw what he had caused, reversed and was gone.. as if the hounds of hell were after him!
The driver leapt out, as did his passenger and four other men appeared out of nowhere. One huge guy picked her up like a baby and carried her out of the road and put her down gently onto her feet.
Badly cut right knee, poor old right knee, it is always this one that gets whacked or badly hurt and cut arch of right foot but she could stand, nothing broken. But she was shaking and in shock, one minute she was carefully crossing the road, the next minute she was flat on the ground.
The car driver said "can we take you to hospital, can you walk, are you ok, did you hit your head".. she said "I'm fine, thank you, I am ok", he gave her his card, he's a driver for a limo service and then he said "please go to A&E when you're not so shaky if you won't let us take you now" and then the housekeeper of the house came running up saying "what has happened, a neighbour has just told me you were hit, are you ok?"
The kindness of these men was amazing, there were now seven men making sure she was ok and her housekeeper said "I'm her housekeeper, I'll take her to her home" and he walked her slowly home.
She walked very slowly down our stairs, put neat Hydrogen Peroxide on the cuts, took a slug of Rescue Remedy and walked slowly to the bus stop to take her to A&E at Charing Cross. Why there and not Chelsea & Westminster Hospital?
Well, she's an out patient of four different departments at this hospital, she knows her hospital number backwards but the first thing she had to do was report the loss of one of her hearing aids, in the sudden movement of falling, the skinny little device had flown out of her left ear!
Having told them about the loss, she limped off down to A&E, she was seen pretty quickly by a doctor and given two pain killers for the knee was swelling into a huge mess and becoming more painful by the second.
"Xray for you lass, that's one hell of a bang you've taken there", off she went to have xrays done. The results show a chip off the outside of the upper bone and severe trauma - swelling. Back to the doctor who cleaned it up and put on bandages, "Report this to your local police station, keep it elevated and don't do any unnecessary walking for three to four days, take this pill last thing at night and these for the pain, bandages on until Monday morning and then keep it dry and get a Tetanus shot from your GP on Tuesday".
So that's where she went next.. the cops were NOT happy at all.. and were furious about the van driver who caused the accident, they took the car drivers name and details, gave her the crime number and then made her laugh when one said "And if we see that escapee hearing aid, we'll bring him home".
So there you are.. but hey.. she's reallyreally lucky, it could have been a broken leg or worse.. a hip.. ugh, it doen't bear thinking about, we are now in bed and she getting drowsy, so we're off to sleep.
Horrid to think of my mum being a number.. just one of the many hundreds of people hurt by careless drivers who are 'in a hurry'. Grrr.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 9th, 2015.
She was walking fast up Pont Street when she remembered her bus pass was in another jacket, so she turned around and walked towards home.
She is very careful crossing roads and was half way across one, just about to pass behind a stationary car which was waiting for another car let it go ahead, when, suddenly a van came charging towards it forcing the car backwards.
He saw her too late, she tried to get out of the way but fell.. luckily to one side and not underneath his back wheel. There was a screech as the van saw what he had caused, reversed and was gone.. as if the hounds of hell were after him!
The driver leapt out, as did his passenger and four other men appeared out of nowhere. One huge guy picked her up like a baby and carried her out of the road and put her down gently onto her feet.
Badly cut right knee, poor old right knee, it is always this one that gets whacked or badly hurt and cut arch of right foot but she could stand, nothing broken. But she was shaking and in shock, one minute she was carefully crossing the road, the next minute she was flat on the ground.
The car driver said "can we take you to hospital, can you walk, are you ok, did you hit your head".. she said "I'm fine, thank you, I am ok", he gave her his card, he's a driver for a limo service and then he said "please go to A&E when you're not so shaky if you won't let us take you now" and then the housekeeper of the house came running up saying "what has happened, a neighbour has just told me you were hit, are you ok?"
The kindness of these men was amazing, there were now seven men making sure she was ok and her housekeeper said "I'm her housekeeper, I'll take her to her home" and he walked her slowly home.
She walked very slowly down our stairs, put neat Hydrogen Peroxide on the cuts, took a slug of Rescue Remedy and walked slowly to the bus stop to take her to A&E at Charing Cross. Why there and not Chelsea & Westminster Hospital?
Well, she's an out patient of four different departments at this hospital, she knows her hospital number backwards but the first thing she had to do was report the loss of one of her hearing aids, in the sudden movement of falling, the skinny little device had flown out of her left ear!
Having told them about the loss, she limped off down to A&E, she was seen pretty quickly by a doctor and given two pain killers for the knee was swelling into a huge mess and becoming more painful by the second.
"Xray for you lass, that's one hell of a bang you've taken there", off she went to have xrays done. The results show a chip off the outside of the upper bone and severe trauma - swelling. Back to the doctor who cleaned it up and put on bandages, "Report this to your local police station, keep it elevated and don't do any unnecessary walking for three to four days, take this pill last thing at night and these for the pain, bandages on until Monday morning and then keep it dry and get a Tetanus shot from your GP on Tuesday".
So that's where she went next.. the cops were NOT happy at all.. and were furious about the van driver who caused the accident, they took the car drivers name and details, gave her the crime number and then made her laugh when one said "And if we see that escapee hearing aid, we'll bring him home".
So there you are.. but hey.. she's reallyreally lucky, it could have been a broken leg or worse.. a hip.. ugh, it doen't bear thinking about, we are now in bed and she getting drowsy, so we're off to sleep.
Horrid to think of my mum being a number.. just one of the many hundreds of people hurt by careless drivers who are 'in a hurry'. Grrr.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 9th, 2015.
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