Evening all and
although if it weren't for Hitt I wouldn't have known.
My mother managed to change out family's schedules since last Tuesday. We've had a system. My sister calls her a couple times a day, normally around noon and in the evening. If she doesn't get an answer, I make the half hour run to check on her. We had one too many false alarms about a month ago. She didn't get her around 8 at night and called me and I was playing poker so we agreed that it was probably nothing and left it go till the morning. Sure enough, she had fooled with the phone cords and the phone wasn't ringing.
It bothered me so I went to HD and had some extra keys made and stopped by next door to see if they wouldn't mind checking on her if we had the problem again. Nobody was home. I tried again the next time I was over but again nobody home. Then I forgot about it until Tuesday.
Monday night my sister got no answer but wrote it off as that she probably went to bed early. She called her the next morning on break with the same result and called me. I went over and found her laying on the kitchen floor. Actually sitting up when I opened the door, but still on the floor. I asked her if anything hurt and got a negative. Got her up and it hurt, but her shoulders have been hurting so I thought that was what caused the discomfort. I asked a couple more times but the same answer. I stayed with her for about
three hours and she seemed fine other than constantly getting up and moving around.
My sister was due within the hour to take her to a hairdresser appointment so I left to get home to grab a bite to eat and get the dogs out. She managed to fall again before my sister got there and she couldn't get her up by herself so called emergency service in.
Thus is the start of too long a journey. Apparently she bruised her shoulder when she went down. They said with her down for so long the muscle started breaking down which if not flushed could lead to dialysis so the kept her overnight. Then it was going to be one more night. Then they started talking about an operation which we thought was to repair something in the shoulder but it turns out she now had a staph infection. How, Who knows but she's on IV antibiotics now and we moved her to a rehab facility tonight for what they say will be four weeks. She doesn't know how long right now and we're hoping something can be worked out to get the IVs done at home after she is strong enough and capable enough to get around on her own. She's not good at not being on her own so this will be a challenge.
We re-did the way things are set up in her house and are looking at Myhalo to monitor her so if she falls we'll know about it, plus she tells us she'll use a walker which she refused to use until now. I also have everything worked out with the neighbor who happens to be a nurse. If we get her
through this, she may outlive me.
After all, she is only 92.
. We could do the snus dance, 
