an anniversary to remember

Nine years ago this evening, about 9:30pm,  I slipped and fell really hard on a spot of water on my garage floor. It was quite a spectacular fall and I smashed my left hip.  It hurt a lot! Happily I was rescued after about 45 minutes of trying to butt-scoot my way into the house to get to a phone.  I had made it the length of the car by then. I knew, if all else failed, the workers who were remodeling my kitchen would find me in the morning, but miracle of miracles. a work friend and her daughter stopped by on their way home from a movie to drop off some paperwork.  When I heard them in the driveway I started hollering as loud as I could and did get their attention.  I thought I was really yelling.  My friend told me later that she thought it was a cat meowing.  They realized pretty quickly that I was in trouble and as soon as they got to me, called the EMS.  One of the EMS guys, after assuring everyone that oh. yes, my hip was really broken, explained to me that the best way to get me on to the stretcher was for me to put my arms around his neck, put my weight on my good leg and he would swing me up and over on to the stretcher.  I put my arms firmly around his neck, he did the heavy lifting and it worked.  After I was safely on the stretcher I remember him saying "Um, Ma'am, you can ler go now."  In my defense, I was a widow, and it had been a long time since a good looking young man had asked me to put my arms around his neck.