We seem to be accident-prone lately

[wiseheart]

Yeah. The heating has been fixed, which is good, but poor Mum took a fall in the living room and managed to land on the armrest of her chair. Fortunately, it's an overstuffed armchair, so she didn't break any bones, but now she has a roughed up patch of skin on her arm. It looks almost like the burn I had on my hand a couple of years ago, just not so severe. But it's ugly enough; the fabric that's covering the armrest rubbed against her skin and there was some bleeding, too. It's begun scabbing over (is that the right word?) but I don't know what we're supposed to do with it for the night. She's a very restless sleeper and I'm afraid that she'll make things worse, even if we bandage the injury.

Never a calm day for the wicked. *sigh*

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[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Argh, poor mum, healing can be so slow in the elderly and the wounds often look dramatically scary. I hope it heals cleanly.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So do I, to be honest. The wound really looked scary, I nearly got a heart attack when I first saw it.