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Addendum

My oldest brother Chris emailed me a list of other notable medical emergencies that were ignored before my time to be tacked onto yesterday’s post. He wrote the following (edited for the sake of a short post):

  • 197x - My grandfather, a funeral director, helps a woman into his car to take her to make arrangements for her very recently deceased husband. The woman slams the door on her own hand, severing her thumb completely. Being the world’s only embalmer who hates the sight of blood, he immediately faints in the street.  The woman picks up her own thumb and runs back in to the funeral home to call for help.
  • 1987 - My grandmother gets the heel of her shoe stuck in crack in the parking lot of the grocery store that will eventually become the gym where Mike works for six months.  She falls flat on her face, breaking her glasses, nose and several teeth.  My grandfather doesn’t notice, as he’s run in to the store because ice cream is on sale.
  • 1980’s - My other grandfather sits in his recliner through 2 heart attacks and 3 strokes, putting enough nitroglycerin under his tongue to implode a basketball arena.
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Saturday, 4th February