[Magdalen] Fall Down Go Boom.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David - such difficult news. I hope that your recovery is shorter this time.

meanwhile:
From: "Esther Williamson>The alert system that
sends an ambulance would be quite expensive as the city charges for
sending help.

Esther, ambulance trips are usually covered by Medicare (past experience 
with my mom) when the resident generates the 911 call. Have you checked on 
that in your area?
Lynn

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Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 1:03 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Fall Down Go Boom.

> I cannot get up either when I fall. It has now been 6 months since my last 
> tumble but, I have an inexpensive cell phone which costs me $10.00/month. 
> It has my kids programmed in and I carry it at all times when not in bed. 
> I used to have an around the neck alarm that would keep calling my 
> children on a rotating basis until one of them answered. That worked until 
> it didn't. That time I spent quite some time on the floor until I was able 
> to crawl to a phone to get help. The alert system that sends an ambulance 
> would be quite expensive as the city charges for sending help.
>
> Esther
>
> On 7/8/2015 1:32 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Ditto what Roger said.  Also, I'm glad it wasn't worse!
>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/07/2015 16:55, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>>>> I tripped over one of my dogs yesterday about noon and fell
>>>> down forward on the entrance tile floor.  I was home alone.
>>>>   It was a sort of gradual crunching forward, and the only residual
>>>> damage appears to be due to the hyper dorsi-flexion of the toes.
>>>>   When I go down to the floor I am there until someone helps get
>>>> me up.  I shouted through the open front door screen  periodically
>>>> for about 45 minutes and finally my next door neighbor showed
>>>> up and called in the 911.
>>> Is there one of those alarm systems with a thing you could wear roiund 
>>> your neck to alert somebody if you fall again?  Glad it was not more 
>>> serious.
>>>
>>> Roger
>