Hmm!

Don’t be fooled that in the mindset of retired persons, one day goes by just like any other.  Oh so not true.

Dennis and I had an errand day in Mankato on Sunday.  All of our objectives having been met, it felt good to be safe and sound at home, right here on Stauffer Avenue.  As I had had a busy Monday, I had failed to mention that after putting the little red pickup in the garage . . . Dennis didn’t come into the house.  Dennis fell into the house.  Clatter, bang, bang and I went running.  It’s amazing how many steps it is from the end of one small home to the other.

Dennis had landed on his back with his cane under him, but yet propping him up under the shoulders.  Slowly I got beside him and took stock of getting him clear of the door and getting the cane out from under him.  Getting him in a sitting position, I realized he had scraped the top of his right hand on the edge of the metal on the stair tread.  Dennis is on a blood thinner and there was no doubt I needed a get back up the steps for a towel to tighten around his hand.

Thank the lord for hand rails.  With Dennis seated at the dinning room table.  Three Tylenol and water was the first item to ward off what was bound to come from stretched muscles and tendons.  The right hand was secured with a large band-aid.  Smaller band-aids for the two fingers on his right hand and then one more band-aid for a spot on his left forearm.  I then went about cleaning the blood from the back entry, up the steps into the kitchen, right up to the table where Dennis was seated catching his breath.  Whew! 

Thankfully, no broken bones.  Scrapes will heal.   Sunday was winding down. 

Each day brings what it will.  There is nothing, but to take it . . . one day at a time.  Monday, Dennis was content in the patio porch and I stayed busy in the house.  Monday afternoon the “Doc Piddy, the Quack of Stauffer Avenue” checked and the bleeding had stopped on all of the areas.  I needed to use the Iodine swabs.  Yup, they did burn and sting, it needed to be done.  The best thing for the scrapes was for a scab to begin forming as the Iodine evaporated.

Here we are on Tuesday and what do you know!  It is a normal quiet day here on Stauffer Avenue. 

With that I will take my leave.  ♥