I'm thinking of you all. Hoping the surgery went well.

doody is supposed to come visit us and we've been planning and kidding each other Lara...that's probably what you are referring to.

I haven't heard anything since this mornings email...she fell down the stairs and was unconscience (sp?) ..fractured her pelvis and shattered her elbow....they were all with her all night in the hospital...she's had terrible pain...they plan to operate today on her elbow.

I know she appreciates the prayers.

Oh, Doody.....this is terrible! Of course I'll keep her in my prayers. I hope she makes a complete recovery. It's so hard to watch our loved ones in pain.

Oh my goodness, that's shocking.

for Doody and her mom.. CoolAngel26

oh my goodness. I'm sending up prayers. how awful.

oh no..... sending up prayers for Doodys mom and Doody too..

Oh, thank you, you're all so wonderful.

I'm tired, I just got home from the hospital.

Mom fell down some stairs yesterday at 3:15 pm. (It hasn't even been 2 years since she fell down her steps at home and crushed her heel and broke her ankle.)

She hit left side of her head and has a concussion. She lost more blood than they would like but is doing okay in that department. Keeping an eye on that. It knocked her unconscious. Ambulance brought her back to this town (they were visitng friends in another town). Edited to add I forgot to say....it split her head open. They had to stapled that. There's a large hematoma that has kinda crept down from the intial place of impact down in front o her ear. It's nasty.

She may have also broken her wrist. They are going to xray that tomorrow as it wasn't a source of concern in the ER. Her elbow demolition was obvious.

She fractured her pelvis and demolished her elbow. I won't describe it, too horrifying. She finally went into surgery at 4:15 this afternoon and it took almost 2 hours to repair it.

She is so scared and confused and has no idea what's going on but she has been really doped up. Problem is, the strong drugs, fentanly, didn't get rid of the pain during the night and it was just god awful. Finally this morning her doc showed up and started giving her Ativan and that finally calmed her down so she could sleep.

When she leaves the hospital depends on when she can move around. She hasn't been able to so far. They have had to use a slider to get her off the bed each time she's been moved because she's in too much pain all over and hard to move her bottom end because of the fractured pelvis.

At least she had color this morning. Last night I didn't think she was goning to make it.

Poor dad, well...he's very tired. He's 86 and she'll be 83 next month.

Daughter stayed with me last night, tonight and will the rest of the weekend. Bless her heart.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you.

(I hope it won't offend if I just copy this to sanctuary for all.)

Sending you thoughts and prayers and hugs.

I'm so sorry, Doody.

They're awful injuries for an older person to sustain.
Good she has a little colour back today... that's a good start.

She's in my thoughts, believe me. You are as well. (((doody and mum and dad)))