Friday 19 October 2018

her First fall

Her primary caregivers don't really know how she fell that first day at home after coming home from the hospital.
 
How is it, they still wonder sometimes, that despite all the precautions they took, she somehow- with supposed assistance by her side- fell and hit her head against the metal shelf?
 
Perhaps a fall could be argued as a course-of-event that could happen when you're back home the first day after having been discharged.
 
But that is not something that should happen when you're wedged between a heavy glass-topped dining table holding on to a heavy wooden chair with your right hand for support to .move to the sofa, and when there's someone right by your side. 
 
In that situation, that someone is supposed to eyeball your every single step, every single movement like a hawk and be ready to grab you should you lose your balance and fall. 
 
But that didn't happen.
 
Instead, that someone, her supposed caregiver, merely held on to one corner of the chair, and when she did lose her balance, loudly claimed to Miss Brown's primary caregiver- who had been standing a distance away- that "you said not to help her".
 
Whether that shifted the blame or not, the fortunate thing was that it wasn't a serious head injury, no bruising whatsoever, just a bit of a shock for Miss Brown, whom afterward for a brief moment, wondered why it was that in the instant when she lost her balance, the person standing right next to her twisted away from her and screamed, but never making a move to catch her, nor shifting forward to help break her fall...