Family Archive

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Update on Mom

Thank you to everyone who replied & emailed well wishes for my mom.
She made it through surgery without issue & will be in the hospital another day or so.
It’s because she’s on blood thinners – her levels have to be monitored closely to prevent another stroke. But then she’ll be heading home where my sister will stay [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Far From Home

As I type, my mother is in surgery back home.
The doctors are trying to hammer, nail, pin & plate her shattered radius back together.
(That would be the big bone in her arm, in this case her right arm – her bad arm.)
That’s because a year before Eric & I met, my mother had a stroke that left [...]