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my dresser and bed and broke my nose and injured my left arm and right leg. You see, when I fell my left arm hit the handles on the dresser and my right leg hit the bedstead on the right side and I knocked the bed off from the blocks a foot and down from the head of the bed and split the headboard and the side. Della ran to me and I remember asking her to give me a wash pan and I already had everything on me, also the floor, as bloody as beef then I bled a pile in the wash pan. Before I knew it the room was full of folks. Brother Ward who got me up on the side of the bed, Chandler and Marie, Loomis and Linda, and I don't remember if that was all or not. Anyway they all followed me to the Emergency room, and the doctor cauterized burned my nose and kept me in the hospital two days. The left side of my nose still gives me trouble at times. Also my arm and leg. But I still have a lot to be thankful for. I'm like the song sister Emma wrote about I'm not much account but I may change yet. Oh, I must not forget to give the Lord credit for me being able to come home, or at least to my daughters in Meterie, on Friday. The first of the week I asked my doctor was he was going to let me go home. He said the last of the week he said do you have a nurse at your house? and that's all he said, so boy! I got down to business with the Lord and He heard my prayers. So that's when Walter and Celeste were there at Ruby's. My niece and nephew from California. So I got to be with them from Friday until Sunday when they had to leave. Of course they came to the hospital every day to see me. Mrs. Laura Miller of whom I spoke of in the first part of this diary and told about how good she was to me when I was a girl. Well, she had six children, two boys Horace and Forest then from the oldest was Ola, Jewel and the twins, Lilly and Laura and they were not one bit alike. Lilly was a perfect Brunette and Laura a perfect Blond. Lilly's hair was a solid mass of curls and Laura's was a straight as could be. Laura and Forest (Mutt) are the only ones living. Forest and his wife Abita (Tut) just left. They live in Slidell and nearly every two weeks they come over and bring two and three big boxes of different kinds of bread, buns, cinnamon rolls, pies, cakes, soap, butter and I don't know what all. Della gives it to the children and neighbors and keeps a little for us. Their church in Slidell furnishes all such as that for families who need. So when the deacons get through delivering all the boxes to the needy then they can do what ever they want too with the rest, so Forest and Tut brings it to us. Its just one day old. Just as fresh and nice when its warmed or toasted. I like the raisin bread and today they brought a lemon meringue pie and it was about as good as any I've ever
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