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Friday, October 06, 2006

Mom's nightmarish scare

Let me tell you a story.
It starts when I decide to let my mom use my cell to call Dottie and my sis Toni, since we took off our long distance on the house phone. I called her to let her know that I was on my way home (like I always do) and that I needed to stop by the store to get Leela's housewarming gift.
(No I won't say what it is just in case Leela's watching). I took the opportunity to get some gas while I was at it. (It's down to 2.20 in North Port and dropping fast.) I finish up and head home.
The first thing I notice when I get home is the cat's out running around and the garage door is ajar to let him back in. No problem since this is becoming a routine with Kitty Kitty and Mom.
I enter the house and the first thing I hear is "HELP ME!" The first thing in my mind came out of my mouth as I replied "Help you? What do you need help with?"
When I turn around my mom is crunched over a chair trying to get herself off the ground. What happened to her wouldn't become apparent for another few minutes. The only thing on my mind was helping her get up. Thank God it didn't take too long, as she just got right up.
When she turned around I thought I was seeing things. Her whole body was covered with sauce with a good mixture of blood in there.
We knew that she had to shower to see which was sauce and which was blood so she went to do that.
While she was showering I went to survey the damage. What I found was straight out of a horror movie.
First thing I saw was red. Red all over the white tiled floors. Red all over the walls. Red all over the garage floor. Red all over the boxes inside the garage.
I mean there was red all over everything! And some of it was blood.
I didn't even know where to start so I just simply didn't.
I waited until she was done in the shower to see if we neede to go to the hospital. Well after see something protruding out of her arm near her elbow, I knew we had to go to the emergency room.
This was around 6 pm when all this happened and by the time we left the hospital it was around 10 pm. Not bad considering an average wait time in emergency rooms across the state.
The whole experience inside the emergency was rather quick for us as they did all their tests and such. Like Xrays and tetanus shots , but the worst part was sitting next to this poor lady who was just crying and screaming the whole time. The nurse couldn't give her any pain medication until the doctor saw her and the poor thing was there all by herself. She was from Rhode Island where her kids were, but she came here and was by herself here. Very sad that we had to leave her but she did finally get her pain killers.
The doctor was real nice and he stitched my mom's arm up pretty nicely. I say that cause I was sitting right there while he was digging around inside her skin probing for this chunk of glass that lodged itself in there. Most people would freak out but I've always been able to deal with blood and cuts and medical stuff without freaking out. Guess I really should have been a doctor. (my hand writing is so bad that people tell me I should've been a doctor.)
After that whole ordeal we had to come home and clean up the mess.
Suffice to say that today I'm feeling a bit fatigued would be an understatement.
Mom is doing fine and she'll be heading East with me to go to Miami this weekend. But first she'll be stopping off in Cape Coral to visit Dottie on Saturday and Sunday she and Dottie will be heading into Miami.
I'll let ya'll know what happens in Miami and keep you updated on my mom's arm.
For now just know that all is well.

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