A LIFE CHANGING EVENT

I am pretty confident that what happened on Friday night at the railway station may well be a life changing event, even though I was at the time about three or so kilometers away.

Falling down a flight of concrete steps, is an event likely be traumatic and damaging for anybody. The telephone call from the station staff advised me: “Your wife has fallen over, and we have called an ambulance. She wants to see you.”

Now we are in the hands of the surgeons. Potentially, I suppose, more serious injuries than a broken right elbow and a head gash could have been caused.

The focus changes as we more away from the drama of the event, the emotionality generated, and the need, from my point of view to deal with the immediate practical problems, now our thinking turns to the long term, even as the short term has not yet run its course.