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I'm too tired and discouraged to write about the things I was going to write about.
I got a message from my sister at 11:15 this morning (but didn't find it until 1:45) that my grandmother had fallen in Muscatine and broken her pelvis in two places. On arriving in Muscatine at 5:30 (after dealing with duct taping the hood down, stupid traffic, fog, and ice), I found out she'd fallen on ice (she should NOT have been outside in the first place... gah) and was lying there for nearly 2 hours before someone found her. She was taken to the hospital suffering from hypothermia as well as the aforementioned broken pelvis. 5-7 days in the hospital, and then a 3-4 month recovery period (as the area of her pelvis she broke isn't readily fixable and basically heals itself... in a healthy individual).
Both my sister and I are sure she won't last six months. She lost her will to live when she was fired from her job nearly 2 years ago with 8 hours' notice... after 20+ years on that job. Losing her reason for living was bad enough... losing her independence is going to kill her. Although, as a wise man said to me tonight... there are worse things than death.
So.
I'm just going to sit here and think for a while.
I got a message from my sister at 11:15 this morning (but didn't find it until 1:45) that my grandmother had fallen in Muscatine and broken her pelvis in two places. On arriving in Muscatine at 5:30 (after dealing with duct taping the hood down, stupid traffic, fog, and ice), I found out she'd fallen on ice (she should NOT have been outside in the first place... gah) and was lying there for nearly 2 hours before someone found her. She was taken to the hospital suffering from hypothermia as well as the aforementioned broken pelvis. 5-7 days in the hospital, and then a 3-4 month recovery period (as the area of her pelvis she broke isn't readily fixable and basically heals itself... in a healthy individual).
Both my sister and I are sure she won't last six months. She lost her will to live when she was fired from her job nearly 2 years ago with 8 hours' notice... after 20+ years on that job. Losing her reason for living was bad enough... losing her independence is going to kill her. Although, as a wise man said to me tonight... there are worse things than death.
So.
I'm just going to sit here and think for a while.