Abuelo

Sunday Primero got a phone call from his mom. His grandfather was in the hospital. The story he got was his grandfather fell down the stairs and had a broken neck and was in a medically induced coma because they feared he his brain was bleeding. Primero’s mom is pretty excitable and sometimes makes very large mountains, still her father’s condition was serious. He was not in a coma, medically induced or otherwise. He was very banged up, with contusions all over his head and arms. He had a cracked bone in his vertebrae. He was going to be kept in the hospital for several days. They would also have to medicate him for the DT’s. He had recently been having seizures. Primero was gone for hours Sunday afternoon. When he finally came home he explained that his grandfather’s story didn’t make sense, so the family believes he might have been jumped, but his grandfather claims to not remember. He might truly not remember what happened to him. Primero’s mother decided to move back to town to take care of her father, which Primero had mixed feelings about since his mother had been doing ok where she was living. It was nice that Primero was able to be with his family. Hopefully his grandfather will make a full recovery.

 

Oddly, his grandfather is the only one of Primero’s living family members I have never met. I came close to meeting him once but he was ejected before we had the chance. From the stories I have been told by Primero and Esperanza, their grandfather is sometimes hard to be around. Not long before Esperanza left she bumped into him in town and he got mad when she wouldn’t give him money. Still, it is hard to see a family member hurting and in the hospital. Primero claimed ambivalence about his visit but I’m sure he was glad to be there.