Well, this afternoon sucked.
I got home after work to be told that Mom was going to the local urgent care clinic. She'd fallen down the stairs an hour or so before, and had finally decided she ought to be looked at. (I think the pain had something to do with it; she finally figured it wasn't going away on its own.)
In any event, to cut a long and tedious day short, she apparently didn't break anything, but she's very, very, very, very sore. Nailed her shoulder, strained a finger, banged her knee, and twisted her back and sides, in addition to knocking her nose, putting a tooth through her lip, and raising a lump on her forehead. (They did a chest X-ray and sent her for a CT scan to be sure she hadn't actually cracked her ribs or skull.) Oh, and she twisted her glasses terribly, so the lens wants to pop out. So the next several days will be Not Fun.
The moral of this story: Never take shortcuts when hauling stuff down a flight of stairs.
THURSDAY UPDATE: Last night, she was hit with nasty nausea and vertigo, but (in typical family fashion) wouldn't go to the ER until 10 this morning, after I'd gone to work. To condense another overlong story full of fretting and unreturned phone calls at break and more fretting, it turns out Mom did indeed get a nasty concussion from her fall, but it just didn't hit until later (which isn't uncommon.) The vertigo's from her inner ear being jumbled by said fall and possibly said concussion. Both should resolve themselves, but she got stuff to help with the nausea while they're in the resolution process. For now, she's pretty much stuck in bed.
SATURDAY UPDATE: For all none of you who care, Mom continues to progress slowly but surely. She's still fairly stiff and sore and she has a nice collection of bruises, but she's sleeping a little better. For the past day and a half she's been able to walk around without someone to lean on, and this evening she gave solid food a try for dinner. (She's been on soups and crackers mostly due to persistent dizziness and associated nausea/stomach issues.) So it's so far, so good on the recovery front.
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Oh, ugh!!
Hope she's healed up quickly!!
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So far, she's doing better than she was that morning. ("Better" in that, unlike this morning, she's not worse than she was previously.) She managed to keep down some water and some Diet 7-Up, not to mention her meds, so that's good. It's just going to take a while for her system to sort itself out.
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