Mom's 94th birthday party

Imagine having 94 birthdays!! Phew ... makes me tired just thinking about it!

And the saga continues .....

Mom fell in the bathroom a couple weeks ago ... the EMTs came and said they didn't think much was wrong, but because she had a large lump on her forehead, they figured they better take her to the emergency room, because she's on blood thinners and there could be a brain bleed. So, they walked her out to the ambulance (never even put a collar on her) and I followed them to the hospital. 10 hours later, she was admitted because she had a broken neck! Fortunately, the fractures (C1 and C2) were stable and there was no brain damage, so the hospital only kept her for a couple days, then I brought her home.

We've reached a whole new level of home care now ... I have video monitors set up, so I can see her wherever she is, and my sister has ordered an alarm that will go off at night if she gets out of bed, while I'm sleeping (which I'm now doing in her bedroom with her). She keeps apologizing to me for being a "bother", but she can't understand that she would be less of a "bother" if she would use her walker, etc. In her mind, doing things on her own makes less work for me, and I can't convince her that letting me help her actually makes less work for me in the long run.

Fortunately, my two sisters have been trying to help me as much as they can ... one financially and the other more physically. The one that lives closest tries to get here to help me out every couple weeks ... so, I get a couple nights of uninterrupted sleep and can run some necessary errands ... other than that, I only get out of the house when mom goes with me. And, we've been having some brutal winter weather so mom wants to go out less and less.

But, we are hanging in there ... my mom is one heck of a trooper. Next week, we celebrate her 94th birthday!!