In the category “No good deed goes unpunished…”

So my ER escapade continues.

The person that fell last Saturday evening was overly worried about their dog. 

Apparently several people have said due to the dog’s behavior, (Young, undisciplined, large, and very strong) that the dog was going to cause the person to fall and break a hip.

I didn’t know anything about this, walking into a situation as an innocent. 

The person is trying to say now (to protect the dog) that I slipped and grabbed onto them causing their fall.

Anyone that knows me, also knows that I have an almost feline grace and the odds of me falling, much less falling, first are exceedingly remote.

My friend was taking this person to the hospital and heard how the story had changed. He called me and asked me to tell him how this person fell. I related the story again to him exactly as I’d told him the first time, (it’s really easy to tell the same story again if you’re telling the truth.) When I was done, he said, “Thank You, I’ll call you back.”

When he did call me back, he told me the other persons version of the story which was completely incorrect. He also told me that he’d “Lost his Shit” on the other person because he’d noticed their story changing from moment to moment, and after my confirming my recollection of the events to him he was sure that my recollection was more accurate.

According to him, he reminded the other person that I’d gone over in the first place to make sure everything was alright. This all started because I saw a tow truck pull up to the other person’s door and had gotten out of bed, gotten dressed, and walked over to make sure that everything was okay.

He also noted that the injuries sustained were far more consistent with my recounting of the events than with theirs. The fracture was too severe to have resulted from a simple fall, there was momentum involved. 

The person had turned so that their right arm was extended toward their left hip while gripping the dog’s collar. When the dog lunged at whatever it saw at the end of the driveway it spun the person like a top. This meant that as they went down their right arm and right portion of their head smacked into the side of their car at speed.

I was also 3 feet away from them because the dog was trying to jump up on me. Meaning that even if I was slipping and falling on the ice I couldn’t have reached them.

In fact the only time I had any slipping what trying to get them out of the car was when we returned to the cabins, because they outweigh me by 50 pounds and grabbed my arm before I was set, trying to get them out of the damn car.

Even then I didn’t fall, I just barked at them to wait because we were both going to end up on the ice if they continued to pull me off balance.

My friend is right, without proper training that dog is going to cause the person severe harm.

I’m in the clear I think provided that this person doesn’t decide I have money.

Maybe the Inuit people had it right… Maybe the old and infirm should be put on ice flows and sent out to sea.

Ahhh Well, I’ll see what happens. No use worrying about it now.