Albertville, AL
As mentioned, Friday was Alyson's graduation. Well, it's graduation season, of course, and tomorrow (Monday), one of Annette's nieces graduates from High School as well, in Florida near Orlando. So, early this morning, Rick, Annette, and Alyson left for the drive down there, leaving Eric (still has school part of this coming week) and Mom with us. Gerry, Lois and Chrissy left this morning as well. We had all our instructions (feed Mom, give her her meds, water the plants, feed the cats) and were all set.
This morning, I started doing some cleaning on the coach (damn bugs) and everything was fine except that Mom didn't want to walk (she has to walk the length of the driveway for exercise). Since her health problems began, she's not been up and moving anywhere near enough, and she's become very unsteady on her feet due to muscle atrophy. She's also extremely afraid of falling, which tends to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. So, what happens? You guessed it; we're not on our own with her for half a day and she falls on the steps coming out of her place. There are 4 brick steps, and she must have been a couple of steps away from the bottom when she toppled over backwards. She hit her head on the second step and put a 3/4" ding into the back of her scalp. So, off to the emergency room we go. They did a CT scan (everything looks OK) and hit her with 5 surgical staples and a shot and sent us on our way.
She did reasonably well once we got home, eating her dinner (usually a challenge) and watching TV. When it was time for bed, she got wobbly again getting out of her chair, so she really needs to be monitored at all times when she's not sitting down. This will be OK as long as she remembers this and doesn't keep trying to get up on her own!
Walking up the driveway and back is a constant challenge.
Those damn steps!
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