The view from the back of a police car pretty much never means good news. In the ambulance in front my wife is receiving treatment on two shattered wrists after a very hard fall while we took "a quick hike before dinner." We were miles from the car, but thankfully along an easy to find road.
We did the full show: 911 call, ambulance ride to an emergency room with a 4-hour surgery featuring the full Home Depot catalog installed in each wrist... and once the initial panic ended, reality started to set in for what this injury would mean for our autumn plans.