Humpty Dumpty...

It started out just like any other day: a 4 year old running around refusing to go to school, a pissed off and impatient uncle chasing the child around the house, an old Cuban lady ranting about something, anything. I desperately huddled under the covers grasping at an extra hour of sleep on my day off- little did I know that the day would come to such a tragic end.

Fitfully I kicked off the covers and gave up on my sleeping endeavor to commence my daily chores and do some homework. Everything ran smoothly Friday and I found myself in the late afternoon with a smush of time to take a nap (YAY!) so I laid down on the couch with a book and dozed off. I was woken quite suddenly by my grandfather telling me that my grandmother had been in an accident. Of course I jumped up asking for details. She was in the hospital, and no other information was available except that she had been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. I searched for the phonebook to look up the number to the hospital when my grandfather stopped me- don't bother calling the hospital, she's on her cell phone. I did a double take. Excuse me...um, what?

Now, most normal people who are rushed off to the hospital tend to sustain serious accidents like, oh I don't know- heartattacks, strokes, labor, seizures, severing of a limb. When I called her on her cell phone (ahahaha) she was vague about her circumstances:

"Oh, my gooness, ju know, I cannot be talk right now because I am ing de hospital." I'm not a qualified expert, but I am pretty sure that if her condition was so distressing, she probably would not pick up the phone you know- according to simple logic.

So here's what went down: a big cuban lady (hahaha-ok bad joke). She tripped over a telephone wire. Yup. That's right Humpty Dumpty tripped on a telephone wire whilest she was making copies at work and landed (coincidentally) on her previously injured (and repaired) shoulder and knee. So great was her pain that she cried out for an ambulance. Several hours, 4 pain killers ("Oh, ju know I neber taken dos, I neber eben taking an aspirin!"), 2 ice bags and a get out of jail (work) free card and she was back at the house, harrassing. Apparently falling down doesn't stop someone from being a pain in the -.

Now she has been tormenting our household and will continue to do so until the 5th. And somehow in her distraught condition she was able to drive 6 hours roundtrip to visit Red this past weekend, and is going to do it again next weekend. Poor Humpty Dumpty....