The Family Update

Since I last posted on family matters, things've been up'n'down.

Mom's been coming out of the whole grief thing fairly well, but this last July got rational enough to notice her back was stinging a wee tad. After the 2nd trip to the ER for pain management, an Orthopedic Surgeon got involved...followed shortly by Big Surgical Magic involving fusing various things well beyond what the good doctor expected.

Mom spent a few days of hospital time she still doesn't remember, spent two weeks in a PT regimen at a local nursing facility, came home and promptly developed a torn meniscus.

Since then we've been muddling with that (cortisone seems a big help) and she's given up the walker, and is in the process of giving up the cane - mainly a confidence issue, at this point, it looks to me. She still uses the scooter we got her to do grocery and shopping runs, but other'n that it lives in the trunk of my car....for the moment. I'm rather looking forward to the day that she discards that as well...

Basically, it looks like she's been so wrapped up in other folks illness for the past couple of years that she has either forgotten to notice or rationalized away her own issues...and now that everyone is healthy (for a reasonable variation on the term), she's been falling apart and getting repaired....

That will be all for this report...