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sounds like an episode from Calamity Jane - thank goodness he's OK

Everybody else has little disasters in a normal life so why should he miss out?

does he go looking for trouble???? :-D :-D :-D


Seriously .............. I'm glad that he was not badly damaged in the fall.

This afternoon was making some crabapple jelly with the fruit Fred and his mate had previously brought in because I think I am going to need to keep on top of it this year.

His mate came hammering up the path on his own, telling me not to worry but Fred was lying on the side of the road.

It seems he was crossing the road toward the sun and had gone too far into a tyre track which had sent him sprawling. some passing person had called a paramedic and the man who always has to get involved at an emergency had stopped to get a bit of the action.

When I arrived, full of my usual sympathy, a not very happy Fred was moaning because his leg hurt, which they all assumed was injury. It wasn't, he just needed something under his knee to support it like he has in bed. I put the wheelchair cushion under and that shut him up!

There were three men there and he just wanted them to pick him up and put him in his chair so he could get on with his day but the paramedic wasn't allowed and Piece of the Action Man insisted on kneeling behind him to support him.

Another ambulance had to be called and they arrived with some kind of inflatable cushion thing to get him in line with the wheelchair. Piece of the Action Man still had to hang about, for reasons best known to himself.

Once they had him in the wheelchair they had to lift him manually anyway to get him in a sitting position. He was off like a rat up a drainpipe then.

I had insisted his chair was put into gear because I didn't want him being pushed and thinking he was a stroke victim or something and he really didn't want to be associated with the ambulances.

Looks like he has cut his foot, the carers have just found it so we will have the out of hours nurse around yet again but, other than that, he doesn't seem too bothered by it all!