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Another fall
Oct. 6th, 2019 11:09 amYesterday we went to dinner at a local restaurant. It was crowded and we were meeting my parents, so I was looking around for them as I came in the door, instead of watching my feet. I tripped on the doormat and fell. Steve tried to save me but I am taller and heavier. So he just wrenched his shoulder and fell with me. He landed on top of me and his baseball cap transferred itself to my head; it was only after we caught our breaths and finished dealing with my bleeding nose, that we realized I was wearing his hat.
Steve got up easily on his own. A nice young couple politely pushed him aside, as they each took one side of me and picked me up off the floor and onto a bench. The restaurant brought me some ice for my nose, and after a few minutes it stopped bleeding and I felt less shaken, and I got up and Steve held my arm as we made our way to where my parents were already seated at a table on the far side of the dining room.
Mercifully they were completely unaware that anything had happened, and never noticed my swelling nose, so I did not have to explain what had happened. If they had noticed I would have had to explain it ten times in two hours and no one wants that.
My mom was preoccupied with the jigsaw puzzle app on my iPad. She did not get impatient when she had to wait for her food, or when others ate too slowly. In fact we could hardly get her to eat. This is the second time she's done jigsaws on my iPad. She thought it was new, yet she was better at the mechanics of it the second time around. It's funny to see how, as long as she doesn't shift her focus, nothing is forgotten. The minute she finished eating she whipped that iPad right back out onto the table. When we got back to the house she played with it there while my dad and I did an iOS upgrade on his, and when we finished, she didn't wanna go home. It was downright miraculous how well it calmed her down. I can see why the parents of toddlers let them play with their phones.
I am going to go over to Costco this afternoon and get another iPad. I won't spend the big bucks for the giant screen one. She has better vision than my dad, and a smallish one is better in restaurants and for carrying around in her purse. :-) She'd probably be equally calmed by a cheap refurb Kindle Fire, it doesn't even need the internet on it, but my dad isn't going to learn two tablet operating systems, and she's going to need his help. So another iPad it is.
Trying to decide which sunglasses best hide my black eye and bruised nose.
Steve got up easily on his own. A nice young couple politely pushed him aside, as they each took one side of me and picked me up off the floor and onto a bench. The restaurant brought me some ice for my nose, and after a few minutes it stopped bleeding and I felt less shaken, and I got up and Steve held my arm as we made our way to where my parents were already seated at a table on the far side of the dining room.
Mercifully they were completely unaware that anything had happened, and never noticed my swelling nose, so I did not have to explain what had happened. If they had noticed I would have had to explain it ten times in two hours and no one wants that.
My mom was preoccupied with the jigsaw puzzle app on my iPad. She did not get impatient when she had to wait for her food, or when others ate too slowly. In fact we could hardly get her to eat. This is the second time she's done jigsaws on my iPad. She thought it was new, yet she was better at the mechanics of it the second time around. It's funny to see how, as long as she doesn't shift her focus, nothing is forgotten. The minute she finished eating she whipped that iPad right back out onto the table. When we got back to the house she played with it there while my dad and I did an iOS upgrade on his, and when we finished, she didn't wanna go home. It was downright miraculous how well it calmed her down. I can see why the parents of toddlers let them play with their phones.
I am going to go over to Costco this afternoon and get another iPad. I won't spend the big bucks for the giant screen one. She has better vision than my dad, and a smallish one is better in restaurants and for carrying around in her purse. :-) She'd probably be equally calmed by a cheap refurb Kindle Fire, it doesn't even need the internet on it, but my dad isn't going to learn two tablet operating systems, and she's going to need his help. So another iPad it is.
Trying to decide which sunglasses best hide my black eye and bruised nose.
