Back...with a "bang"

Almost injured Okaasan yesterday!

I bumped the wheelchair and she shot forwards and half fell into the road - screaming in pain and shock!

Me too.

Dear Son and I hauled her back into the chair and stroked her face and arms, reassuring her she was ok - praying she WAS ok...it was awful....I felt terrible...guilty as hell.
She seemed ok...maybe...but a few centimeters more she'd have been thrown face down on the pavement, or broken a leg or an arm in the fall - because she had no natural bracing-against-impact reaction. Fell like a sack of potatoes.

Happened just as we were heading back to the care home after a wheel chair push round the local streets...looking at flowers, pointing at things in shop windows. A windy day. Okaasan not very chatty...but we were doing the round.
Dear Son was walking next to the wheelchair and slightly in front - so she could see him. I was in charge of pushing - up and down the curbs - making sure to tilt the chair over steps etc. But this place looked almost flat..and I was not really focusing at walk-end...

OMG. It was awful.

The good thing was that she had forgotten about it within minutes.
But in the local shop as we bought drinks she was whole-body shaking - from the cold? from delayed shock? We didn't know. So we rushed her back to the care home and staff checked her vitals. All seemed ok. She could stand, move her legs. Heart rate was usual...they will monitor and let us now if there is any result from the incident.
Oh God. I hope not. It would be terrible that I am the cause of injury...

So. There we are. Mid-summer...that's us.

VERY sorry I haven't written for ages.
My life is a whirl of teaching and tour guiding. The latter particularly is busy of course with Hokkaido holiday season. People from all over the world here to see flower fields, blue pond, mountains and volcano scenery.
It's hard for me to turn down teaching work too - because the guide job is a feast or famine work situation. And a couple of big writing projects are hovering too.

Dear Son visits Okaasan every week. I didn't for almost a month...
Apparently she is ok, but the staff are worried that she is eating less. She is not so friendly to other residents...and walks a bit.

It's her birthday next month. Is a restaurant visit a good idea?  Easy, quick eating place with good toilet access. Have to find that. She also needs more summer style clothing.
Have to find the time to do that.