by Paul VarnellYou remember that old advertisement for a medical alert device in which an old woman lies sprawled on the floor and says, "I've fallen and I can't get up"? Shown as a clip at video bars, it usually provokes laughter. Well, I will never laugh at that clip again: It was exactly like that. I fell and I could not get up. ...
After a couple of days in the hospital of which I remember little, a doctor came by and said that since my pelvis showed no misalignments, there was no need to operate, and they could send me off to a nursing home to heal. "Don't put any weight on your left leg," he said, as if at that point I could or wanted to. Full story...
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