A troubling and long day
So around 8:30am yesterday while I was still sleeping my doorbell rang. Aroused by the sound I yelled just a moment and slipped on some pants. I heard a familiar voice respond with an okay. My land use tenants.I had rewired my electric circuit panel and installed a 30 amp 110v GFI plug outside (using 8.2 AWG Romex and an appropriate circuit breaker) outside the house and for a monthly fee permitted a friendly former dancer to park her large, towed RV motor home (you may depending on where you live call it a towed Caravan trailer) as a place to live. She had a well to do husband and when he passed she liquidated much and bought the mobile home as a place to live. It is big enough so that whatever tows it needs what is called a 5th wheel to tow it. Ultimately after bouncing around awhile she decided on the Shenandoah Valley as a place to settle. To alieviate boredom, much as I had done a few years ago gotten a job at the local 711. Local parking rates for such large RVs can approach (US) $70 a day. When she mentioned this to the store owner it was suggested she contact me, and a mutually acceptable financial deal was struck with a parking lease agreement and advance payment resulting.
It was an effort to get her RV in place due to some low laying tree branches. But they were removed and a good water and power connection was made. She was happy with the secluded location we chose. A posted entrance and screened by tree hedgerows totally invisible from the road. Deer, rabbits, turkey greet her every morning. Gorgeous sunsets. Hunting allowed. Close enough to work to walk. A parking place for her car. WiFi, etcc.
In the past 6 months we have become reasonably friendly. I have a private jogging trail she uses to stay trim. Her shape is not displeasing. She does her own mowing around her camper. When home her electric current draw is at most 24 amps. The electric bill is included in the rent of the space, Her music taste is similar to my own.
So the purpose of her visit was to invite me to a barbecue she was planning for evening. Althoujgh early for me, she had just gotten off work at the store, so I offered her a cold one. She accepted and we went outside to the chairs on my front porch,, me with coffee, her with a tall Twisted Tea. I asked her to hold on while I got my cigarettea (also to put on my flip flops). While iside I heard her screaming my name. I yelled out throush a window what is wrong. She yelled back she needed help. Come here now. My land has mostly gentle animals, but it also has animals that eat them. Bear, Eastern Coyote (aka Red Wolf), occasional mountain lions seeking a mate too. .Or there may have been a human trespasser on my posted lands she was confronting. Either way it couldn't be good, so I grabbed an appropriate gun and went to help her. She wasn't where I had left her. I yelled where are you and she said, at my trailer. I ran over there and found her on the ground clutching her arm which had a new bend between wrist and elbow.
I asked what happened and she said I fell on my steps. She had decided to retrieve her own smoking materials while I got my cigarettes. Before coming to my door she had gone home and changed out of her work outfit to something more stylish which included women's cowboy line dancing boots to match the desired western cowgirl look. Those boots are made for dancing on a dance floor. The soles are slick leather. The steps to her home are polished metal, still damp with the morning dew. She had fumbled for her key while ascending the steps when her foot slipped. As she went down she out thrust her arm to protect her face from the steel step edge. Her hand slipped off the top step and into the space above the next step as she continued to fall. Her arm was not a crowbar. Her momentum resulted in the trapped arm breaking.
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Leaving her there a moment I went back to my house, re-secured the gun, made sure the pets had food and water, and locked the house. Then for the first time drove her car as she moaned in the front seat at every bump. .
It is 18 miles to the Emergency Room of the hospital. We made good time. She was quickly admitted and X-rayed. The X Rays confirmed that both the ulna and the radius bones of her right forearm were broken. Also, although she had not initially noticed it her lowest right rib was cracked. Some additional resetting of her arm was needed. We notified her employer she would probably not be returning to work for awhile. The manager wasn't happy of course, but what can anyone do when an employee gives you such news from the ER, but say okay?
{One of the nurses was kind of giving me the fish eye. I knew why. This was my third visit to that ER in a month and a half with a different woman each time. LoL. I would. be giving me the fish eye too. I seem to somehow collect injured sparrows.}
At her request, and her mother's urging I was given an address and sent with her car to pick up her mother at that woman's home in Steven's City. My tenant also gave me her ATM card and the PIN so I could put some gas in the almost empty gas tank of her car. Both tasks were accomplished. It was my 1st meeting of her mom. By the time we returned to the hospital my tenant had been given some Fentanyl to cut her pain and her arm had been set and braced, but not cast. There was some numbness in her fingers and nerve damage with surgery needed was possible at a later date. An appointment with an Ortho specialist was made for next week, and some prescriptions were issued (Oxycodone in (pitiful) 5mg pill form (1 or 2 every 8 hours as needed) and also some Narcan sprau in case of overdose. She was hten discharged.
We drove to Walmart and I picked up her prescriptions for her. Then I was instructed to drive to a (different) 711 and get her mom a carton of cigarettes and also some Fireballs (a spicy alcoholic beverage) and a case of beer. Then, finally back to my place.
A decision was made that rather than stay in her trailer alone she would live with her mom for a few weeks till she regained use of her arm. She anticipates being able to quickly qualify for medical unemployment compensation and food stamps. The trailer parking rent is paid for September and part of October. Since the electirc consumption of an empty RV would be almost nil, and given my knowledge of the circumstances, I agreed to temporarily accept a reduced rent for the first 2 weeks of October.
Her mmom and her, after gathering a few needed things then departed in her car to her mom's house. I looked at my phone. The time was now 1830 Hr. The whole day had been lost. Sigh.
Plus he had a Psychotic break last week where he thought he ran over his cat.
They have money.
So it should be a fun weekend.