Of course I haven’t posted in awhile. After the excitement of being in Việt Nam, returning to the mundane life of a retiree leaves little to write about.
Actually – that’s not true. I’ve been busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
One of the “exciting” things that has happened since our return has been Mom herself. On Friday, May 16, I got a call from the nursing home telling me that Mom was on the way to the hospital. An aide had started to check Mom’s blood pressure and found her non-responsive, cold, and clammy. An ambulance was called and she was taken to a nearby hospital emergency room. I joined her there; she was quite conscious and awake, but also very overwhelmed by all the activity buzzing around her. She was poked, prodded, photographed, questioned, and smiled at a lot. The end result was that “they” were not terribly sure exactly what had happened, but a good bet is that she suffered some sort of mini-stroke that had no lasting effects. By the afternoon, she went back to Good Samaritan to rest. The next morning, she was sleeping so hard I was timid about waking her up. The nurses said they had woken her up to feed her, but otherwise had left her alone. By Sunday afternoon, she seemed just fine again.
By the most wonderful coincidence, her doctor visited her Sunday afternoon when I was there. Dr. Vic is our personal physician as well, and he has a “old country doctor” attitude about him. He checked Mom over, and we discussed the possible ramifications of the mini-stroke (or whatever it was) and basically realized that at being almost 92, such things happen.
You may notice in the picture that Mom’s hair is a bit shaggy. The Mystery Guest Blogger fixed that up yesterday with a new haircut, designed more for convenience than style.
And – oh yes – Mom still looks forward to “wrassling” with me during my visits.
Hi Mystery Guest Blogger, Mom hair style looks nice!!! :)
Posted by: | May 29, 2008 at 09:10 AM