Brother-in-law Stuff and a Little Bit More Stuff
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 15-06-2011
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About a week ago, one of by brother-in-law’s was cleaning up his yard, pine needles, weeds and other trash, etc. Well, he lives up in the mountains with retaining walls all around , some of them on up to about 30 feet or so. He was throwing the stuff down to where his pickup was located in order to haul it off. He was getting ready to wind it down for the day and had a big arm load of this stuff, which he threw over the retaining wall. Only thing, he went with it. Now at this portion of the wall, it was only seven feet or so and luckily, I think his head broke his fall…..Well, that may not be right. But anyway, the boy is in pretty rough shape and I don’t want to make to light of his situation as I have been known to fall from time to time myself….. He busted his sternum, he broke some ribs, he punctured his lungs and it collapsed and I don’t know what all else. That was a week ago. The hospital has put him back together, and he has mended pretty well and he might be getting out in the next week days.. the boy was pretty lucky. It could have been lots worse. I told him today how to keep that from happening again and he is considering my proposal, which is to keep his butt in front of the tv, drinking his, er, tea and stay out of the dad gum yard. Those weeds are only doing what come natural and he can have his sweetie keep the other stuff loose and the next good wind will take care of the yard for him. He said he would give it some thought. All considered, he was in good spirits and before I left the hospital, he had me feeling better….So he is gonna be ok..
A little bit more stuff, like finding someone at the University Hospital…They have about three ICU’s. I mean you gotta be a cotton picking “perfessional” and know what the nature of the injuries are before the folks at the hospital can tell you where the party you are visiting is parked. They got tramua ICU’s, burn ICU’s, heart trouble ICU”s, and a bunch of other ICU’s that I don’t know about. We walked about 3 miles finding the proper ICU and then another mile or so after we found it. One hospital employee was so nice to escort through the maze, called hallways, and got us close enough to where we could make it on our own….Only thing, he didn’t hang around to help us find our way out. One fellow standing in the hallway, a visitor, told us for 5.00 each he would tell us how to get out. After giving us a credit account, he went ahead and told us the best way out. We made it…… Wow…I came home and took a nap. Sweetie did too….
Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law. My dad and I experienced a similar situation at UAB hospital in Birmingham when Trudy was having surgery a couple of years ago. A hospital social worker saw our looks of desperation on our journey to find her and led us the rest of the way there which seemed like many miles of maze. We had to make the journey back to the car by ourselves. We laugh about the trip now – there has to be a better way! One wrong turn we might have been lost for days!!
I should have taken my GPS with me..That may have helped.. I guess all big hospitals are the same, huh?
Now you know why nurses earn their paycheck. They must work in the maze every day and continually go to school in order to learn the maze as it continually changes.
You gave your brother-in-law some bad advice. Encouraging Americans not to clean up after themselves and to occupy the easy chair in front of the TV more is bad advice since so many of them do it now. Your advice should have been to stop before that last load when he was ovviously already too tired to continue. Anyone working in the New Mexico heat in the middle of June, as well as all across the Sunbelt, must learn to pace himself, as well as when to quit.
In Ruidoso, where it seldom gets warm, much less hot, they normally don’t have problems with heat. But that was a few years ago. With global warming, who knows how cold it gets? or warm?
In Ruidoso, it may seldom get all that warm, but the humidity level seldom gets much over 10%. It is still important to pace oneself and to drink lots of water, or grave problems will result, like falling off walls. It is the humidity level, not the heat, that caused my main adjustment to the climate in the Albuquerque area. It was the humidity level that caused my main concerning in adjusting to climatic conditions in burying that water line at Angel Fire. It was real relief in watching the backhoe do it in minutes rather than hours and days.