{"id":57333,"date":"2023-03-13T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57333"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:22:48","slug":"fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened<br \/>\nA knock at the door<br \/>\nI better try and see<br \/>\nIf I can take the parcels in<br \/>\nBut I fell<br \/>\nHead first<br \/>\nHands free <\/p>\n<p>My head hit the runner<br \/>\nBlacked out for a bit<br \/>\nBlood was running in my eyes<br \/>\nI then tried to sit<br \/>\nBut fell again upon my head<br \/>\nMore blood everywhere<br \/>\nDown my arms  I was frightened<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nvery aware<\/p>\n<p>Just there in the darkness<br \/>\nI call on Alexa she<br \/>\nAnnounced the fact I had  fallen<br \/>\nBut nobody came to me<br \/>\nThen I found my I pad<br \/>\nleft a message to say<br \/>\nCan you help me I have fallen<br \/>\nAnd they came back right away<\/p>\n<p>A lot of blood a nasty cut<br \/>\nOn my head the pain<br \/>\nBruising and contusions<br \/>\nI really felt the strain<br \/>\nManaging to get up<br \/>\nA cushion at my feet<br \/>\nC called out the ambulance<br \/>\nAnd my swollen feet<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t<br \/>\nfit my shoes alas<br \/>\nAnd it was very cold<br \/>\nThinners coupled with head wounds<br \/>\nAdversity had rolled<br \/>\nAround me<br \/>\nThe great moon was low<br \/>\nWatford was to where<br \/>\nI was taken at midnight<br \/>\nThat\u2019s when I got there <\/p>\n<p>Treated very rapidly<br \/>\nPut in bed at four<br \/>\nHad a brain scan<br \/>\nThey were worried a bleed<br \/>\nNo one was sure<br \/>\nMy head was really battered<br \/>\nThe wounds  glued<br \/>\nI can say<br \/>\nBrought back by a Red Cross car<br \/>\nAnd I drove back<br \/>\nThat day<br \/>\nIt\u2019s amazing what the body does<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow some pharmacist<br \/>\nIs coming to look me over<br \/>\nAs for doctors they enlist<br \/>\nOthers now to do their work<br \/>\nTriage is the word<br \/>\nPhotograph your injuries<br \/>\nNo matter how absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened A knock at the door I better try and see If I can take the parcels in But I fell Head first Hands free My head hit the runner Blacked out for a bit Blood was running in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/fallen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57340,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333\/revisions\/57340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}