Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bad day for my Grandfather!

It was a sunny, windy evening on a Thursday night in June when my brother had a baseball game. The entire family attended the game being that it was one of the all-star games and it meant a lot to my brother that everyone went to show support. My brother always seemed to get nervous on game days and it seemed like he would transfer that nervousness to my grandfather because he too could never stay still. It would make the family feel uneasy when my grandfather would walk around because he has been sick for a while now and his condition is getting worse and it is hard for him to get around sometimes. It is a little scary! Being that my grandfather is sick means nothing to him, because he never lets his sickness get in the way of him having the opportunity to show up to his grandkids functions.

My brother had won the game that evening and my brother and the entire family decided to go out for dinner to celebrate his victory. We decided to go to Peter Piper Pizza which is normally where we eat our pizza because most of the family loves the pizza from there. We had all arrived at Peter Piper Pizza and began to order what everybody wanted. When we had finished ordering we all left to go find a big table so the whole family could sit together. Once we had got the table we all began to sit down and enjoy one another conversations. What we thought was a good and sunny day suddenly changed to one of the scariest days. My grandfather went to go sit down on his chair when it suddenly clasped and completely broke causing him to fall hard to the floor. My husband was closes to him so he quickly ran to him and started to help him up. I was so scared I ran to help pick up my grandfather, at first I did not know what to do, being that I was still in shock. As we were picking him up, my poor grandfather was moaning in pain saying he was hurting but did not know what was wrong. I could not believe that no manager came out to see how my grandfather was doing; I literally had to go get someone and show them the incident. This wonderful customer who luckily was around happens to be a nurse and ran over to evaluate my grandfather. We ended up calling 911 for assistance and they came out and picked him up to take him to the hospital.

Once he got to the hospital they evaluated him being that he is high risk with his heart and health conditions but once over looked it turned out that he had broken his arm and was bruised from the hard fall he encountered. Peter Piper Pizza never said anything nor did anything about the situation which made most of the family mad. They tried to blame the incident on my grandfathers weight but that was a false claim being that my grandfather did not weight that much and was in fact the normal weight that he should be at his age or at least that is what the doctor said. My grandparents pursued a lawsuit with the company hoping to help with medical bills that he endured while being treated for his injuries. That day was not a good one although it started out as one. My grandfather has completely recovered from his injuries but will never go to Peter Piper Pizza anytime soon.

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