tikatu | Got to be a good Samaritan today.

Was driving back from taking the kids to school and happened to catch this flash of pink out of the corner of my eye. I looked again and saw this lady sitting down in her driveway wearing what looked to be her nightgown. My first thought was, "I don't think she really means to be sitting there like that. I'd better check it out."

So I parked the van at home and walked down the block to where this lady was. She was sitting there, unable to get up, and feeling rather cold. Her arm and leg were pretty badly scraped. She told me that she had fallen down the stairs of her house (cement steps) and that she had driven her daughter to work and when she got out of the car, she fell again. I tried to help her up, but it was no good. She said her tailbone hurt.

I put my jacket over her legs so warm them and so she would feel more modest, then walked back down to my house as fast as I could, and brought the van up, and with it, my cell phone. I asked her if I could call her daughter, and she said, no, her daughter was at work. So I called EMS instead. An ambulance came within 10 minutes (if she wasn't breathing well or something they would have been faster I think). They got her onto a gurney and took her to the hospital. I'm going to check down there in a day or so to see how she is. The neat thing was that she trusted me enough to ask me to get her housecoat out of her house and lock it up for her, which I did.

Saw my parents this afternoon and went out to dinner with them this evening. They had a wonderful time on the cruise and visiting Nassau and Jeanne the storm didn't affect them at all. They got Kennedy Space Center t-shirts for the kids, but got them a bit too small for the girl and boy #1. So boy #1 got his sister's and they're going to buy her a local one instead. Boy #2 almost ended up with two, but the smaller of the two fit him well so the other is going to his younger girl cousin, who is actually bigger than he is though she's six months younger.

The muses have been quiet, which is good I guess. Except for Turnabout, which is preying on my mind. I'm going to try and tackle it tomorrow and get Chapter 11 finished.