I write you having come through a very busy (and cold) weekend, and it is not over.
First of all, Aunt Mar fell Friday morning. Aunt Mar has been very fortunate over the last couple of years as she has fallen several times and managed not to break anything since the hip in 2005. I believe she is tougher than a Sherman tank. Friday morning she was standing in front if her bathroom sink when she fell backwards. Her left hip hit the doorknob behind her really hard. She was able to get back up but was in extreme pain. Mom called Vicki and they decided she needed to go to the hospital and that it would be wiser to move her by ambulance (but only after they had combed her hair).
Aunt Mar was transported to Skyline Medical Center where she spent a good deal of time in the ER. They admitted her and she has been there all weekend. The good news in all of this is that so far the X-rays and CT scan have not shown any broken bones. But she is still in a lot of pain. She is supposed to be evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon sometime today. She has only been up to walk one time during her stay and needs a lot of assistance to even reposition herself in the bed. Any movement is painful for her. We hope the surgeon will check out her back.
We all know when dealing with health crises like this that there are lots of questions and the answers are very slow in coming. It is pretty obvious that we cannot provide the care Aunt Mar needs if she returns home in her current condition. And while we know nothing in the hip area is broken we don’t know what is causing her pain. And then we wonder if she will recover or if this is now the new normal for her. Please pray for us as we learn more and we, as a family, make decisions that affect Aunt Mar and our family as a whole.
What made our weekend so interesting was that we had a couple of things on the schedule we could not drop. I had agreed to work sound for the Yates-Wix wedding at church which blocked off Friday night and most of Saturday for me. It was a very pretty wedding and went well.
Several weeks ago Vicki had purchased tickets for herself and Pauline to go to a special Gospel show at the Grand Ole Opry last night. She reports that it was a fabulous show which included the following artists: Ronnie Milsap, Sara Evans, Trace Adkins, Loretta Lynn, Dierks Bentley, Vince Gill, Charlie Daniels and Carrie Underwood. The show was recorded and CDs titled How Great Thou Art: Gospel Favorites from the Grand Ole Opry will hit stores on February 5. If you get Great American Country on your cable/satellite service you can watch the show February 9, 8:00-9:30 EST. Vicki and Pauline had a good time out on the town together.
We are really glad today is a holiday so we can catch our breath before starting the week tomorrow.
Joe
