Writer’s Workshop

In retrospect, I wouldn’t say it was my best idea. I was going to the grocery on my scooter in 2015. I was following my grandson, he on his bike. We did lots of small trips, he on his bike, sometimes his little brother on a child scooter. It was a fun outlet always.

We were in the parking lot adjacent to the store and there was a speed bump. My grandson yelled back to me, “grandma, don’t go that way!” And me being an ass, thought I could navigate the bump if I approached it diagonally as if driving a car. The three wheeled scooter tipped and I fell off, breaking a bone in my hip and destroying my left elbow.

I ended up in the ER at three in the morning, had an allergic reaction to a Dilaudid injection, resulting in a pulmonary embolism and a week in hospital followed by rehab and taking Warfarin for nine months.

The worst part of it that still bothers me is the fact my grandson thought it was his fault. Of course it wasn’t, it was totally mine. He is still the empathetic sweet young man he was then.♥️

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for February 8, 2024