duh_Mom
Well-Known Member
well this christmas sure has not been what we thought it would be - Mama Margaret - my mother-in-law who is 92 - fell and broke her hip on the 23rd. She is the typical oldster with CHF and blood thinners, frozen shoulder etc. etc. etc. so needless to say we are really worried. She had surgery on the 24th and is actually doing pretty well. She has managed to take a few steps today and will go to rehab as soon as there is a bed available. (freakin' unbelievable)
It is hard not to be angry with her - that walker and basket and tray that she has decorating her living room would have kept her from falling. It was just getting her to use it. I wish folks - me included really - would understand how their bad decisions affect everyone around them. Not just them.
So, the wife was sitting in a hospital with me on her birthday because of complications I had with my surgery - then on Christmas - she is sitting with her mom. I need to take her somewhere on a nice vacation when this of over!
ok, i'll stop whining now - it could have been so much worse. We could be burying her. The day she fell I got the call that a good friend of mine in TX passed rather unexpectedly. They are going to bury him on Tuesday. Its all the shits.
Life is uncertain - we can make plans but the universe may not go along with it.
So for now, we are running between this house and Mama Margaret's house taking care of dogs and doing special requests for the old lady so she will eat. I'll check in when I can.
Have learned that I need a stash of vits and my calcium chews in my purse or car. Ran out when the ambulance was taking her to the hospital and did not think to take anything.
It is hard not to be angry with her - that walker and basket and tray that she has decorating her living room would have kept her from falling. It was just getting her to use it. I wish folks - me included really - would understand how their bad decisions affect everyone around them. Not just them.
So, the wife was sitting in a hospital with me on her birthday because of complications I had with my surgery - then on Christmas - she is sitting with her mom. I need to take her somewhere on a nice vacation when this of over!
ok, i'll stop whining now - it could have been so much worse. We could be burying her. The day she fell I got the call that a good friend of mine in TX passed rather unexpectedly. They are going to bury him on Tuesday. Its all the shits.
Life is uncertain - we can make plans but the universe may not go along with it.
So for now, we are running between this house and Mama Margaret's house taking care of dogs and doing special requests for the old lady so she will eat. I'll check in when I can.
Have learned that I need a stash of vits and my calcium chews in my purse or car. Ran out when the ambulance was taking her to the hospital and did not think to take anything.