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My plan B had fallen through after two months. I needed a job. I was visiting my mother one night, and while I waited for her to come home from her date, the doorman called up to say she was "on the sidewalk". She had fallen getting out of her cab and the November wind knocked her over. Off we went to the Emergency Room. She was cheerful, the ER didn't bother her at all. As it tuned out, she was in and out of the hospital over the next few months. Many falls, ailments and rehabs.

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Pavement Photos

06/25/2020

A few years ago, I decided to leave North Carolina and move back to New York. Weeks after I got there, my mother slipped on the pavement outside of her apartment getting out of a taxi. The November wind knocked her over. She spent the next seven months in New York in and out of rehab facilities. She came home from one, and fell again after a couple of weeks. Then Meniere's Disease, then more falls, and more rehab. I spent those months in and out of town, taking care of my mom, trying to find work. I walked to Mt Sinai Hospital three to four times per week. This is one of the Sidewalk Memories.

Pavement Photos

6/25/2020

My plan B had fallen through after two months. I needed a job. I was visiting my mother one night, and while I waited for her to come home from her date, the doorman called up to say she was "on the sidewalk". She had fallen getting out of her cab and the November wind knocked her over. Off we went to the Emergency Room. She was cheerful, the ER didn't bother her at all. As it tuned out, she was in and out of the hospital over the next few months. Many falls, ailments and rehabs.