A Novel Experience |
The French lesson was just coming to an end last Monday morning when I received a call from my OH saying that he had fallen and hurt himself and was waiting for me in the nearby shopping mall. My good friend Lois took me to the spot where we found OH sitting in our car but unable to move. The manager of the nearby flower shop had brought him water to drink and ice for his cut lip, but OH was in pain, was definitely looking the worse for wear and had even called the emergency medical service.
As we got to the spot two young paramedics from United Hatzala arrived on orange motorbikes and began attending to the patient. They tried to ease him out of the car, but this was no simple matter as OH was evidently shaken and found every movement painful. Very soon a fully-equipped ambulance appeared, so that all at once there were several paramedics attending to OH, getting him onto a stretcher........