They've been doing work on our street the last few weeks. Part of this involves repairing curbs and driveways. Yesterday they tore up the part of our driveway closest to the street. It may be a week or more until they pour concrete for the new one. There's a park across the street from us with a large parking lot, so we and other neighbors nearby are parking over there for the time being. /background
My mom has COPD and both knees replaced, so sometimes uses a walker. This afternoon she was about to cross the street when she fell over the curb and broke her leg.
This all happened while I was on the train home from work. My dad went to the hospital tonight and I'm going to stay home tomorrow to help facilitate talking to the doctors, etc. They're transferring her to another hospital to do surgery. It's apparently a greenstick fracture of her left femur, so I imagine plates and screws and such may be involved.
Anyway, I'm kind of stressed because I feel like I don't clearly know what's going on yet. My dad's in his late 80s, so he doesn't always ask the right questions, or remember fully what they told him. And I'm worried about this further limiting my mom's mobility.
I would like to say, our neighbors (not the one's I've mentioned here before, but on the other side) are fantastic. The wife stayed with my mom while they waited for the ambulance and went to the hospital with her so my dad could pick me up at the train.
Ok, that's all before I go into full on anxiety babbling mode.
My mom has COPD and both knees replaced, so sometimes uses a walker. This afternoon she was about to cross the street when she fell over the curb and broke her leg.
This all happened while I was on the train home from work. My dad went to the hospital tonight and I'm going to stay home tomorrow to help facilitate talking to the doctors, etc. They're transferring her to another hospital to do surgery. It's apparently a greenstick fracture of her left femur, so I imagine plates and screws and such may be involved.
Anyway, I'm kind of stressed because I feel like I don't clearly know what's going on yet. My dad's in his late 80s, so he doesn't always ask the right questions, or remember fully what they told him. And I'm worried about this further limiting my mom's mobility.
I would like to say, our neighbors (not the one's I've mentioned here before, but on the other side) are fantastic. The wife stayed with my mom while they waited for the ambulance and went to the hospital with her so my dad could pick me up at the train.
Ok, that's all before I go into full on anxiety babbling mode.
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