~AUDIO~---images---comment---transcript---notes---links---site navigation
Sorry, I haven't yet recorded the document.
audio---~IMAGES~---comment---transcript---notes---links---site navigation
audio---images---~COMMENT~---transcript---notes---links---site navigation
Alma slipped and fell on the ice and broke her arm. I hope lots of people brought her flowers and ferns in the hospital.
audio---images---comment---~TRANSCRIPT~---notes---links---site navigation
Miss Alma G. Stokey, Professor emeritus of plant science at Mt. Holyoke college, broke her arm in a fall in South Hadley Tuesday night. She is now confined to Wesson Memorial hospital.
audio---images---comment---transcript---~NOTES~---links---site navigation
Miss Alma G. Stokey, Professor emeritus
Shouldn't that be Dr. Alma G. Stokey, Professor emerita?
I haven't come across anything elsewhere about the broken arm. I need to ask AG, who would have been ten at the time, if she remembers anything. I'm imagining Alma slipping on the ice in the dark, but I don't know. She was 69, so it has to have been quite worrisome for everybody, but given all the travelling she later did, she must have recovered without any trouble.
I don't think she ever broke a hip - it was a stroke that finally brought her down - so I don't think there was any issue with osteoporosis.
LATER
I asked AG. She remembered Aunt Alma's broken arm well.
Alma had gone to a PTA meeting - which was something that Alma had never expected to do, but now that AG was in the picture, Alma went to PTA meetings.
Alma slipped on the ice and fell while walking home from the PTA meeting around 9PM. Her hand was in her pocket, so she couldn't save herself. It was her left arm.
She continued on home. Fred was there. He looked at her arm, and said it looked like a bag of bones or a crumple of bones. He didn't think the arm would ever be fully right again, but he didn't see any point in taking her to the hospital that night.
AG, age ten, came from her bedroom into the living room in the morning and was quite surprised to see Aunt Alma there, sitting in her chair. Aunt Alma never slept in the living room, but that night she slept in a chair so she could keep her arm in a less painful position.
In the morning they went to the hospital in Springfield - Wesson Memorial, the article says. Alma's arm was put into a cast in an elongated position for four weeks, and then it was slightly rebroken and put into a cast in a standard right-angle position. So it must have been a complicated break - a bag of bones, as Fred said.
[A still later note: I told this story to my niece the doctor - not looking for a medical commentary, just talking about it - and she seriously doubted that Alma's arm would have been rebroken. AG was, as previously noted, ten years old at the time, and she probably misunderstood. But repositioning without rebreaking seems plausible.]
After Alma got the second cast off, she went to New York for something or other. This wasn't related to the broken arm; it was just Alma travelling as usual. Fred told her that if she was walking someplace where she might be jostled, like in a crowd, she should wear her sling to protect the arm.
I never heard anything about the broken arm when I was growing up, and nobody ever said anything like, "Be careful of Aunt Alma's arm, that's her bad arm," so it sounds as though it healed better than Fred feared.
Shouldn't that be Dr. Alma G. Stokey, Professor emerita?
I haven't come across anything elsewhere about the broken arm. I need to ask AG, who would have been ten at the time, if she remembers anything. I'm imagining Alma slipping on the ice in the dark, but I don't know. She was 69, so it has to have been quite worrisome for everybody, but given all the travelling she later did, she must have recovered without any trouble.
I don't think she ever broke a hip - it was a stroke that finally brought her down - so I don't think there was any issue with osteoporosis.
LATER
I asked AG. She remembered Aunt Alma's broken arm well.
Alma had gone to a PTA meeting - which was something that Alma had never expected to do, but now that AG was in the picture, Alma went to PTA meetings.
Alma slipped on the ice and fell while walking home from the PTA meeting around 9PM. Her hand was in her pocket, so she couldn't save herself. It was her left arm.
She continued on home. Fred was there. He looked at her arm, and said it looked like a bag of bones or a crumple of bones. He didn't think the arm would ever be fully right again, but he didn't see any point in taking her to the hospital that night.
AG, age ten, came from her bedroom into the living room in the morning and was quite surprised to see Aunt Alma there, sitting in her chair. Aunt Alma never slept in the living room, but that night she slept in a chair so she could keep her arm in a less painful position.
In the morning they went to the hospital in Springfield - Wesson Memorial, the article says. Alma's arm was put into a cast in an elongated position for four weeks, and then it was slightly rebroken and put into a cast in a standard right-angle position. So it must have been a complicated break - a bag of bones, as Fred said.
[A still later note: I told this story to my niece the doctor - not looking for a medical commentary, just talking about it - and she seriously doubted that Alma's arm would have been rebroken. AG was, as previously noted, ten years old at the time, and she probably misunderstood. But repositioning without rebreaking seems plausible.]
After Alma got the second cast off, she went to New York for something or other. This wasn't related to the broken arm; it was just Alma travelling as usual. Fred told her that if she was walking someplace where she might be jostled, like in a crowd, she should wear her sling to protect the arm.
I never heard anything about the broken arm when I was growing up, and nobody ever said anything like, "Be careful of Aunt Alma's arm, that's her bad arm," so it sounds as though it healed better than Fred feared.
audio---images---comment---transcript---notes---~LINKS~---site navigation
LINKS TO OTHER RELEVANT PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE
DOCUMENT LISTS FOR PEOPLE:
- ALMA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
RELATED DOCUMENTS/PAGES:
(none at the moment)
(none at the moment)
audio---images---comment---transcript---notes---links---~SITE NAVIGATION~
WHERE AM I?
WHAT ARE THE PREVIOUS PAGE AND THE NEXT PAGE?
WHERE CAN I FIND THIS DOCUMENT IN OTHER LISTS?
- COMPLETE DOCUMENT LIST BY DATE
- DOCUMENTS BY WHERE THEY WERE WRITTEN ----- Western Massachusetts
- DOCUMENTS BY SOURCE ----- newspapers.com