{"id":1535,"date":"2007-12-22T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:27:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:27:37","slug":"chapter-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

the sound: <\/strong><\/span>Paul McCartney and Wings \u2013 Band on the Run<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Jim Croce \u2013 Time in a Bottle<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>John Denver \u2013 Annie\u2019s Song<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Gordon Lightfoot<\/span> – Sundown<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Eagles \u2013 One of these Nights<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Doobie<\/span> Brothers \u2013 Black Water<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Michael Murphy \u2013 Wildfire<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Harry Chapin<\/span> \u2013 Cats in the Craddle<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>America \u2013 Sister Golden Hair<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

My mother is 5 foot even, not a single hair over 5 ft. but she\u2019s spent her whole life being a force to be reckoned with. She\u2019s tiny, and she\u2019s mighty. She\u2019s a Saskatchewan farm girl and she\u2019s used to tossing calves to brand and bales of hay. <\/p>\n

She marches into the middle of this melee and starts barking orders. She begins with \u201chey\u201d several times, each time a little louder than the last and when that doesn<\/span>\u2019t work she pulls herself up to her full 5 feet and roars \u201cshaddup<\/span>\u201d in a voice that would make a mule skinner proud. (and people always wonder how I could make myself heard over rock bands in the bar\u2026I learned from a pro!)<\/p>\n

There is about 10 seconds of stunned silence which is then broken with the sound of the kid cop putting his gun away, the father getting to his feet and looking sheepish, Mike hanging his head like he\u2019s just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar and the boys sitting down and going back to their pizza and beer.<\/p>\n

Just like that it\u2019s over. Except for the Dr and the hospital security that come barreling though the swinging doors from the main part of the hospital\u2026almost a day late and a dollar short.<\/p>\n

Mom tells the father, the kid cop and Mike to get outta her way and they all shuffle to the side as she comes into my room. It\u2019s not till she takes my hand that I realize she\u2019s shaking and I remember that she hates hospitals and suffers from white coat syndrome so I guess we\u2019re all lucky she even came at all.<\/p>\n

I go to sleep again.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wake up until they are x-raying<\/span> me. The x-ray confirms cracked vertebrae but with some care and a brace I\u2019ll be ok<\/span>. I am sent to a room where they wake me up every 15 minutes because now they\u2019ve<\/span> seen what\u2019s left of my helmet and have decided that I\u2019m not falling asleep but in fact concussed so everyone leaves and I spend the rest of the miserable night worrying about Mike who\u2019d collapsed soon after they\u2019d done my x-rays to confirm that I was basically ok<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the end Mike had compressed vertebrae in his back between his shoulder blades and the Drs<\/span> told him that it was only the fact that he was in such fine physical shape that he\u2019d not done more damage to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the sound: Paul McCartney and Wings \u2013 Band on the Run, Jim Croce \u2013 Time in a Bottle, John Denver \u2013 Annie\u2019s Song, Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown, Eagles \u2013 One of these Nights, Doobie Brothers \u2013 Black Water, Michael Murphy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}