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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 25-Nov-16 09:38:00

flowers from us at GNHQ PRINTMISS. Hope you are on the mend soon. And good to hear you were so well looked after at the hospital.

kittylester Fri 25-Nov-16 09:34:39

We did miss you on Good Morning so thank you for letting us know. I hope you get back to normal soon!flowers

Jane10 Fri 25-Nov-16 09:16:59

Very best wishes for a speedy return to optimum condition PRINTMISS. Glad to hear you're back home and online!

hildajenniJ Fri 25-Nov-16 09:07:14

I've been wondering where you were PRINTMISS. I've missed you. What a calamity, I'm glad to hear that you are recovering. Hopefully it won't be long until you can get back to bowls ☺. I'm glad your DH managed to feed himself! Let's hope it won't be long before you're all back to normal. ☺?☕

harrigran Fri 25-Nov-16 09:05:16

Sorry to hear of your accident Printmiss flowers
DH never seems to hear me when I call to him, in the house, I use the telephone as a pager to alert him.

annsixty Fri 25-Nov-16 09:00:28

So sorry to hear this PRINTMISS. I did remark on Good morning you hadn't been posting. I wish you a speedy recovery and a painfree convalescence. Good luck with the help from your H, I am sure he is doing his best!!

Anya Fri 25-Nov-16 08:55:30

What a dreadful thing to happen PRINTMISS - not sure from your post if you fell and broke your hip or it broke without warning and caused your fall.

Either way it a dreadful experience. Good that your neighbour heard you. A woman who lived alone, not far from us, fell in her garden and no one heard her calls.

Here's hoping you're completely on the road to recovery flowers

Grannyknot Fri 25-Nov-16 08:52:07

When my husband first took on cooking duties, he would literally copy the "serving suggestion" picture on the front of the ready meal box! grin

Get well soon printmiss

Greyduster Fri 25-Nov-16 08:46:58

I'm glad you are on the mend Printmiss, and I sympathise with you. I had a fall on our upstairs landing a couple of months ago, landing heavily. I couldn't get up to start with. DH was downstairs in the kitchen and I called and called but he didn't hear me. I eventually managed to get myself downstairs and it was "why didn't you call me?" Unlike you, I was only battered and bruised. It reinforced my efforts to get him to have an hearing aid, but he won't accept that there's a ting wrong with his hearing. There's a possibility I may have to have surgery in the new year, and DH said yesterday "I suppose I should learn to cook some stuff, shouldn't I?" Well, yes, you would live on beans on toast, but it's not going to cut the mustard with me! Aren't they wonderful?

glammanana Fri 25-Nov-16 08:28:48

You poor thing I hope you are dealing with the pain and getting some rest after such an ordeal,such a good job you have a neighbour who heard you calling and hubby didn't decide to have forty winks as my hubby does when he is listening to the radio.At least now you are home and can rest as the geriatric wards are rather noisy aren't they and you can't relax and recover properly.Take care and bless you hubby with his efforts.flowers

Alima Fri 25-Nov-16 08:28:18

What an awful day for you Printmiss. So glad that you are safe and on the mend now. (Sounds like DH will be more appreciative now too!)

PRINTMISS Fri 25-Nov-16 08:19:36

One of the few days when I was totally organised. The small beef joint had cooked to perfection, the potatoes par-boiled ready for roasting, the vegetables prepared. An hour in the garden, there were three pots needed planting up, and then hang out the washing! OUCH!! Not part of the plan at all, flat on my back - heard the hip crack. Spent half an hour yelling for help - my husband is indoors listening to the gardening programme and I realise I am in a very enclosed space blocking my calls. Drag myself (painfully) nearer to a gap and spent another half hour yelling, and then just as I lifted myself up to call again, I noticed our opposite neighbours curtain move and frantically waved - she had heard my previous calls but not seen me behind the pots. The para-medic came within 20 minutes, and I then waited another 1 hour and 40 minutes for the ambulance. I had been on the ground for three hours. The para-medic was furious, my husband worried to death, and I was in pain! However, we have one of the best hospitals in the country here, and the treatment I received was excellent (except I can't understand why I was put in the geriatric ward!) I was home within 10 days, and although I am using a walking aid, can walk unaided for short distances.
The other half is not so cocky now - always convinced he would 'manage' on his own - perhaps once upon a time, but his eyesight now is not so good, and close writing is difficult for him. He can't see the time settings on the cooker or the buttons on the microwave, so he seemed to live in tinned soup, fish and chips and tea and biscuits. Which when you come to think of it is a great deal more than some folk have.
Thought you might like to know what had happened to me! Enjoy your days