November 24, 2018. Madison, Mississippi. Quite a Night.

At the Hospital of University of Mississippi Emergency room, a person must go through security. The gentlemen inspect your purse. All your pockets must be put into a bin to be checked for metal and you walk through a screening, just as you do at the airport. Interesting. Ken was taken on the stretcher directly into the emergency, but before I could see him, I had to go through security. Our night began well. Both of us were sound asleep but Ken rolled out of bed and ended up on the floor. We took 90 minutes to get him up. He decided to rest in his recliner. We both went back to sleep around 3:00. I awoke to hear a crash. Ken had forgotten where he was and fell right out of his chair. This was a more serious fall as he was bleeding all over the floor. I called 911. The firemen came first and tended to his scrapes and cuts. But he had hit his head so we all agreed that Ken needed to be checked at the hospital. The ambulance picked us up and carefully took us to the University Hospital, which turned out to be a good choice. As several of our doctors are at the University, all Kens records are in the computer so I did not need to give any information about anything. They needed no cards now lists of medications. The young doctors were efficient and pleasant. Ken had blood drawn, another chest X-ray, and a ct scan. And they dressed his scrapes. The tests were all negative. We were home by 1:30. Clever Christina found, delivered and installed a side rail for the bed. Now we must figure out how Ken will get in and out of the bed. This was a difficult night. But it could have been worse.