Road Trip

As you all probably know by now. Our Grandad had a really nasty fall 3 weeks ago, I keep telling everyone that he was on the roof of the house checking the 'Solar System' (Actually the Solar hart), I've had people ask if it was the 'Lunar eclipse' that he was checking out...... Um no! LOL

Anyway, he fell and landed on some coppers logs, concret and the ladder (He doesn't do anything by halves) He broke 12 ribs and 3 lumbar in his lower back along with slight concussion and head trauma. We weren't sure if he was going to pull through... Adam, Lilli and I headed down to the PA hospital in Brisbane. I didn't take the camera to the hospital and there wasn't anytime to muck around with site seeing but i did take a couple of snaps of our road trip..... Mostly of Lilli. Hoping not to bore the hell out of you all!

Leaving Hervey bay on the way to see Grandad in hospital.


Stopped at the 'G'day G'day' Service station in Maryborough for fuel and a toilet stop before the long trip ahead!










We also took to opportunity to head down the road a bit to visit Adam's G'ma aswell for the day. We spent the night at Aaron's place (Adam's Cousin). Lilli got to meet Dozer...


And Bear....




And Puss, who spent most of the night on top of the fridge! Come on.. Lilli is pretty scary at times ;P


The day we had to leave..... We spent the morning at the hospital with Grandad again and had a few laughs although he really wasn't trying to make us laugh.... Due to the meds and the head trauma he was.... um, completely away with the Fairies! But that blog post will come later! Make sure you keep an eye out on the 'Dimmocks Downunder' blog! Just to tease you.... Here is one of the convo's I had with him when we were visiting.

G'dad - Lisa, have you done that photoshoot yet?
Me - Um.... No, Grandad, which one are you talking about?
G'dad - You know, that one across the road in the motel with the yankies!?
Me - Not yet, but i'm sure it'll be interesting!

It was a little upsetting when we left as there hadn't been much improvement at all..... So to get our minds off hospitals for a little bit, we headed to the Southbank markets for half an hour.



And had a Churro.... Lilli's Favourites!


And one last smily face from the trip home!


So what you are all probably wondering.... I'm not doing a photo shoot with the yankies and Grandad knows that now. He is doing a million times better then any of us ever expected. He is walking with help of a frame and the Dr's have moved him for the High dependency unit to a normal ward in the Brisbane hospital and there is talk of them transferring him back to Rockhampton.... I think the nurses are sick of him accusing them of 'Drinking All his beer' ;P