A few months back my sister and a friend were at her place in Albuquerque, doing yard/house work. I don’t know what they were doing, and why they needed to be doing it on a ladder up by the roof, but my sister’s friend was up on a ladder doing something to the roof, or gutter or something. Okay…there you have it.

So while her friend is up on the ladder, Nancy is bracing it, making sure nothing freaky happens. You know…safety first, and all that shit. And sure enough, shit did happen. Nancy’s friend started to fall, so Nancy reached out and tried to catch her, which I think actually happened, but in the process Nanny’s (we call her Nan or Nanny, so shut up!) leg got tweaked. I suppose since we’re all looking at the xrays, you might say her leg got broke. Technically…broke.

At that same time I was here in Seattle, dealing with the news that my best friend of 30+ years had died, and I was on my phone calling people and letting them know what had happened. And in the course of phone calls, I called Nanny to tell her, because obviously everybody in my family thought of Eric as part of the family. When I called her, it was literally like 2 minutes after her accident, so while she wasn’t in any pain, she did kinda go into shock a little bit, and we had to hang up on each other.

Over the course of the last few months, obviously I’ve spoken with Nan about how she’s doing and what does her path to recovery entail and whatnot. Firstly, she hasn’t had any real pain to speak of, so that’s cool, but it’s a pain in the ass being injured like this because she can’t do shit for herself. How do you drive a car or her full-size truck? Hell, how do you climb into the damn thing? So she’s been playing Capt Gimp for a while. Friends have been bringing meals over and helping her out with stuff, but still, being injured sucks.

Me being me, I told Nan that I wanted to get the xray images so that I could post them on the web, or at the very least, I definitely wanted to look at them, cuz xrays are cool. So she sent them to me a while ago. GNARLY!!! As you can see from them here, she’s got a pretty big plate in there and buttload of screws. What I really like is when you get close onto the 3rd image, you can see where the screw punched through the bone on the other side of where it’s anchoring the plate in place. I have plenty of friends who do construction, and I just get that image in my head of the back side of a 2×4 where the wood screws have popped through and you have all the splinters popping out from the screw hole. But this is in her leg. GNARLY!!!

Nan’s back at work now, and she’s on her way to a full recovery. Now that she’s got machinery inside of her though, I think I’ll have to come up with a good nickname that hints at being a bionic sister or a cybernetic organism or something. Oooo…remind me to tell you about the ‘bionics dude’, okay? Okay.

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