First post: POP!
In the last decade of his life, my grandfather had a number of strokes. Many were minor, but a couple was fairly major and resulted in him being unable to walk without a frame. What actually killed him in the end, though, was the gradual shutdown of major internal organs, which meant that he was hospitalised for the last weeks of his life.

The important thing is that he was unable really to walk at the best of times, but was, at the time of the story, incapable of doing much at all, quite aside from his being attached to a number of machines anyway.

This did not stop him, one night, from getting up, dressing (I can only assume that this means “dressing gown” rather than the full shirt and tie gig – but you never know), and walking off the ward. It was only by chance that he was seen by the night staff waiting for the lift.

Not sure if being half in a coma counts as sleepwalking, but - dammit - it should.

Length? Half of ward 81, and would’ve been longer if the nurse hadn’t stopped him…
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 28 Aug 2007, 10:56, Reply)