Just about the time June was supposed to fly back home—to work, to Vincent—Carol slipped in the icy hospital parking lot and broke her hip. June's theory is the news of Carol's accident and subsequent absence from Ted's bedside is what eventually led him to suffer an aneurism, which had to be repaired with a stint, sent into his brain with an angio procedure, since his doctors still did not want to open his skull, lest they disturb the bullet still lodged there. Just as her hip was beginning to heal and Carol could wheel between halls and floors, the stress of the aneurism and Ted's ambiguous mental state caused Carol's bleeding ulcers.