Progress on mum
The radio system is now back up (running badly), so I am reposting this. Thank you all.
Status - My mum is in hospital, no longer critical. She's 92 11/12 so is quite ‘fragile'. She had lost most of her vision due to macular degeneraton but was overwise in good health, very mentally sharp and active still walking her little dog (or little dog walking her) inside the grounds of the secure complex where she lives in with my older sister. She's due for a CAT scan today but it looks like a clot on right hindbrain. She has some movement of left leg and very little of right arm. She's still able to speak somewhat intelligibly. Physio and speech therapy start immediately. Thank you all for thoughts an prayers.
We had an ‘interesting' trip back as yesterday was the first major big storm of summer. They also chose yesterday to leave unmarked stone piles on the road (for putting into the road - about 5 foot high pile of shale boulders.) on one of the worst hills. We came home in rain and mist and nearly hit the first one, but managed to skirt all but the final one just off the top of the hill. They'd just dumped them so they had taken too much road and on the camber and soft edge we slid into the ditch of soft mud. In loading some of their damned rocks to put on the back for weight, B managed to trap her finger and possibly break it. We failed to get out, and so I walked back (a mile or so, in the total dark -there are no lights here and the mist was down) to fetch the other truck. There were 2 stuck logging trucks blocking the road further on. Anyway, I got the other truck (big old heavy diesel) and more by luck than good judgement managed to squeeze past the loggin trucks (you cannot go slowly as the verge is soft, and the gap was so narrow I actually touched the side-mirror)
We managed to pull the other truck out and, after a fair epic (nearly stuck across the road) turned around and got home to delighted but very wet dogs - they had my study open and dry, but had to wait at the gate. The power was out and my computer (fortunately unplugged in case of storms) was not working. Found the problem, fixed it. However the radio sytem that does our internet is not working, and landline dialup is so bad as to make even getting a web page time out.
It never rains in Southern California.
Status - My mum is in hospital, no longer critical. She's 92 11/12 so is quite ‘fragile'. She had lost most of her vision due to macular degeneraton but was overwise in good health, very mentally sharp and active still walking her little dog (or little dog walking her) inside the grounds of the secure complex where she lives in with my older sister. She's due for a CAT scan today but it looks like a clot on right hindbrain. She has some movement of left leg and very little of right arm. She's still able to speak somewhat intelligibly. Physio and speech therapy start immediately. Thank you all for thoughts an prayers.
We had an ‘interesting' trip back as yesterday was the first major big storm of summer. They also chose yesterday to leave unmarked stone piles on the road (for putting into the road - about 5 foot high pile of shale boulders.) on one of the worst hills. We came home in rain and mist and nearly hit the first one, but managed to skirt all but the final one just off the top of the hill. They'd just dumped them so they had taken too much road and on the camber and soft edge we slid into the ditch of soft mud. In loading some of their damned rocks to put on the back for weight, B managed to trap her finger and possibly break it. We failed to get out, and so I walked back (a mile or so, in the total dark -there are no lights here and the mist was down) to fetch the other truck. There were 2 stuck logging trucks blocking the road further on. Anyway, I got the other truck (big old heavy diesel) and more by luck than good judgement managed to squeeze past the loggin trucks (you cannot go slowly as the verge is soft, and the gap was so narrow I actually touched the side-mirror)
We managed to pull the other truck out and, after a fair epic (nearly stuck across the road) turned around and got home to delighted but very wet dogs - they had my study open and dry, but had to wait at the gate. The power was out and my computer (fortunately unplugged in case of storms) was not working. Found the problem, fixed it. However the radio sytem that does our internet is not working, and landline dialup is so bad as to make even getting a web page time out.
It never rains in Southern California.