An Eventful Day - February 8, 2011

 

An email from my sister, Gloria, to her son, Michael in Australia:

We were walking to our car in the Savemart Shopping Center pushing our cart full of groceries. A lady pulled a 'Hollywood' stop and the witnesses said she was looking to her right as she excelerated to turn right. We were in the middle of the street. She hit the right side of the grocery cart with the left  fender of her car and straight into Dad.

 

They called it a low impact collision but even though she was going slow she didn't put on her brakes until she hit Dad. He first went onto the hood of her car and then he was thrown backward and was airborne until he landed on his back on the pavement. Probably he flew about five feet. He said he saw stars when the back of his head hit the pavement. Fortunately there was a physician's assistant in the parking lot who immediately attended to Dad. The ambulance and fire truck were there in minutes. 

 

They did a Katz Scan and it looked good. They said if Dad gets a head ache to bring him to emergency right away. He has some pain pills and muscle relaxer pills.

 

I went back to the grocery store to pick up our basket of groceries. The frozen food was safe in the freezer and everything else was refrigerated. All of our $95 of groceries were safe.

 

What a day, Oh my,

Mom