July 21, 2012-Catching Up-Visitors-Rich Hurt

The days seem to go by fast and I never get back here as much as I should. My Aunt Mary and her sister, Ronnie and my cousins, Jack and Gloria and Jack's wife, Jeannie, all came to visit me on Thursday. I hadn't seen Jeannie in about three years and Jack since two years ago. Jack and Jeannie live in CA but also have a home here up near the old homestead where my grandparents lived. We had a nice visit. Everyone looks good. Gloria is taking all her classes and has gotten one certificate to be a home health aide. She was joking about maybe taking care of me some day. You never know! She's going to be doing some of her intern work at Claxton Manor over at Folts Home.
My brother, Rich, fell 30 feet off his roof the other day. Thank God my brother Jim was there when it happened. He was out for a few minutes but didn't want to call 911 so Jim took him to the hospital. The Oneida Healthcare's C-Scan was not working so they took him by ambulance to St. E's in Utica. He spent the night. Had a bad head injury. An 8 inch cut that had to be stitched up and internal bleeding in his right thigh. Ann brought him home yesterday morning. He's in a lot of pain of course. I just hope he will be okay. I hate head injuries. You just never know what might happen.
My sister Jane was worried about that roof. She was there last week and said it's a tin roof that he put on and it's three stories up. On one side it's even further if he fell because it goes right into the creek. Thank God he didn't fall on that side or he'd be dead. Those guys are getting too old to be on roofs. I have always worried about Jimmy falling off one. And he works alone a lot.

I do have more to write but right now I have to get off this chair for a while. I'm adding this pic of my Aunt and cousins.
Take care everyone.