74 Year Old Grandmother Hurt While Playing On Monkey Bars

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GURNEE -- Grandmother Mary Baio was expected to be at home from the hospital this week after the active senior hurt herself while showing her 7-year-old granddaughter how to use the monkey bars on the family's play set.

The 74-year-old was injured a week ago when she took granddaughter Emily Baio outside to enjoy the 70-degree weather and the girl asked about the monkey bars, a metal ladder suspended in the air that kids can grab the bars and swing from one to the next until they get all the way across.

"I was grabbing it to swing back and forth," said Baio. "I didn't pay attention when I went to grab it. When I fell, I hit my forehead on the wood. I fell and passed out."

When she came to, she had Emily call her father, Sam, and he called for an ambulance. Mary lives next door.

She's pretty matter-of-fact about her three-hour-plus surgery at Condell Medical Center, Libertyville.

"They put a plate in with a couple of screws," said Baio about her shoulder injury. "I'm all black and blue."

"It was one of those crazy things," she said. Like a grandmother swinging from a monkey bar?

"We play every day. You have to keep young," said Baio.

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