Mom Update

Thank you to everyone for their warm wishes and concern for mom. Also, to clarify, she was hiking in the RED ROCK CANYON not the Grand Canyon - that was the week before!!

She made it home Monday night safe and sound - but VERY tired. They upgraded their tickets to first class as mom didn't think she could sit in coach without elevating her leg for 5 hours. She is crossing her fingers that the insurance will pay for it!!

She had her appointment with the surgeon on Tuesday morning. They took some x-rays and apparently the bones had shifted from when they wrapped her in Vegas. Not a good thing.

The surgeon couldn't operate until Thursday. She was disappointed as she wanted to get it done as soon as possible.

Today she had to get some of the pre-op done at her family doctors. She got back home this afternoon and I was waiting for them. I had picked up a wheelchair for mom and she was VERY glad to see it. Apparently today at the Doctors, she slipped and out of instinct, put her bad foot down. She is kinda nervous on her crutches. She was happy to see the wheelchair.

We gave mom a bath - quite a feat!!! But she certainly felt better afterwards and I had cooked dinner for them.

Tomorrow she needs to be at the hospital before 7:00am and she has to do more tests, talk to the anesthesiologist etc and generally wait until the doc can fit her in. He said it might not be until late afternoon. It is going to be a LONG day. Mom is in good spirits (right now) she just want the operation to be over so she can get started on the road to recovery.

She will spend the night in the hospital on hopefully come home on Friday.

Thanks again for all your well wishes.