My Dad came home, he was on the boat and fell while going through the hatch. He landed on his temple...it's all open and swollen up so much. But he won't go to the hospital...he's one of those old timers. I'm trying to tell him a smack like that to your temple warrants a trip to emergency but he won't believe me. I worried what if he has a concusion or something?
4. If he won't go to the doctor, threaten to call an
ambulance. That's how I got DH to the emergency room when he had what I thought was a stroke. I did call the ambulance because he wouldn't go and as it turns out he did have a stroke. You can't be too careful with the elderly. There could be a reason he fell too, which has nothing to do with his needing first aid as a result of maybe fainting.
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