Simply black and white

Playing with one of my photos. I like the effect.

You cannot hold back time . . .

I usually visit my mother on Friday after work and leave the next day. This time I had phoned her to tell her I was overly tired and would see her Saturday morning.

Saturday morning I stopped at a restaurant and got breakfast to go for the two of us. Someone was moving out of her building. Most of the people in her building know me so I walked in the open door and took the elevator to her floor. I discovered her in her bedroom on the floor. with the phone off the hook. She had fallen the prior evening.

I helped her up and asked if she was okay. She seemed to be fine. To be on the safe side I called an ambulance. The paramedics were great. She was taken to the hospital. I asked if I should go right away and they told be to wait for a few hours until she was processed. I spent the time cleaning up her place. I later found out she had fallen twice the night before. A  neighbour came over an helped her up but failed to pick up and hang up the phone that was knocked onto the floor when she fell. When she fell in the bedroom the second time she could not phone on the bedroom phone as the living room phone was not hung up.

Once I got to the hospital I found out that she had a broken hip. Drayton Valley hospital sends those cases to Edmonton or Red Deer depending on availability. I found out that she was going to Red Deer much later in the day. She arrived there at about eleven in the evening. It took that long to get transport.

I visited mom on Sunday in Red Deer where I was told she did not have a broken hip. She would eventually be sent back for rehabilitation (I later found out on Monday morning that her hip was fractured).

I worked Monday. Busy with work and making phone calls to her health care services contact (mom gets visits three times a week from health services), relatives, her cleaning lady, and people in her building. I think I covered all the bases.

Not sure what is happening in the immediate future. I am waiting for updates and more information. Obviously blog posts are not a priority.

Cpt Mo post

Random abandoned Saskatchewan

Somewhere in the vicinity of Hoosier, Saskatchewan.

The Fly

A brilliantly executed sculpture in Komarno, Manitoba.

Seeing this sculpture instantly reminded me of "The Fly" movies.  I enjoyed seeing the original on TV a few times and was lucky enough to catch the remake at a drive-in with an old friend soon after it was released in 1986. David Cronenberg is a master of body horror film . . . truly a Canadian icon. 

I remember watching the remake with Daisy (when she was nine months old) at her house in Henderson, Nevada.  As the film progressed and Jeff Goldblum transformed into the fly creature, she would bark at "the fly" on screen . . . I never thought dogs would be able to watch TV.  You should see her reactions when watching a nature show with wild animals!  Anyway, after all that excitement we had to go for a midnight walk around the neighbourhood . . . that settled her down and everything was back to normal.

Hallowe'en is coming up soon . . . a great time to watch a favourite horror film or two.

- Michael Truman

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