My poor Mommy!

In the last few months so many loved ones have been in and out of the hospital. First my Grandmother up north got sick, she has cancer. Its treatable, not curable. Then my Grandfather up north got sick right after she got home. He had a heart attack along with CHF. He's fine now but would be better if he'd take his damn meds. Then my Grandpa who lives by me got sick, he's recovered. My uncle broke his hip and fell... he died.

So this morning my dad calls at 6:45am. Woke the whole house up! I thought he was calling to remind me that my car payment is due. I was tired and not thinking strait. At first it pissed me off, he knows I pay on Friday which is tomorrow, and if that's why he was calling couldn't he have waited until later?! Finally I wake up enough to realize that he's probably not calling about the car payment.

So I call him back, he picks up, say's hello, me being very groggy said hi, what's up. He say's this every freaking time like he doesn't have caller ID... Who is this? Duh, its your daughter! Oh, which one?? Every time I call him we go through the same thing... Anyway he tells me that my mom fell this morning down the stairs, she's in the ER right now and broke her ankle. But not to worry, she's fine, you can't call her or do anything for her so go back to bed. WTF! Why did you call then! LOL I love my dad... seriously he's so freaking funny... go back to bed, right!

Of course the whole house was awake now, no going back to bed for us! A few hours later my mom calls to tell me what happened. She got up to go to work this morning, usual time 4:30am. Went downstairs to leave, when she got to the garage she realized her tire had a flat so she ran back upstairs to tell my dad that she had a flat, he needed to get that fixed for her this morning, and she was taking his truck. Went back downstairs to leave. My parents house has 2 two car garages, one on each side of their house. A his and hers kind of thing. So my mom is leaving out of his side, went to walk down the steps in his garage, it was dark, my dad left his shoes in the middle of the floor, my mom tripped over them and went down hard. She bruised up the right side of her body, her shoulder is really sore. She sprained her right ankle really bad. Worst of all, she broke her left ankle. :( She had to be taken by ambulance because my dad couldn't lift her into his big truck, not that she's a hefty woman or anything, my dad's truck is pretty high off the ground and it was obvious her ankle was broken so he didn't want to hurt her more. I feel so bad for my mom, she must have been so embarrassed. :(

The shitty thing is, this is not the first time this happened! Its not funny, but because she is ok we couldn't help but giggle a little. My mother is a notorious clutz. She has fallen more times than I can count. She even fell down her garage stairs a few years ago and broke her ankle then as well, but that time it was only one ankle, this time her other ankle is sprained pretty bad so she's having a real hard time with this because she can't walk at all. We brought her flowers to try to cheer her up but she was drugged up and kind of out of it. She might not even remember we came by!

So if you're the praying kind, please say a few for my mom. She's ok, but her spirit is broken a little. She had a lot coming up and now it looks like she's going to have to cancel everything. She had a dr appt tomorrow and will find out then how serious her break is, hopefully its not that bad and she just needs another walking cast like before... And hopefully the next time anyone in my family has to go to the hospital its because I am having the baby!