My mother just came by - she had a black eye after tripping and falling down on the pavement when she was in town today. (She's 82.) She was helped by a young man who passed by and helped her up, checked that she had no serious injuries, sat her down outside a shop, went in to get some wet wipes and wiped off the blood from her eyebrow, went away again to get a plaster, wanted to take her to the hospital, insisted on following her to her bus stop... I'm so grateful for helpful people. She is fine, she didn't even crack her glasses, and the only damage apart from the black eye is a small cut in her eyebrow and a slightly bruised knee. (She'd been wearing white trousers, and they were almost spotless. She was joking about how nobody was going to believe that she hadn't been in a fistfight, since the only thing that showed was the bruise over her eye!)

I'm going to keep in touch with her tomorrow to make sure that she doesn't seem confused or anything like that - I do know that head injuries can be insidious, but she was completely herself six hours after the incident.