Well I have not posted since last week and what a week it has been. I guess we should start with Thursday and move though the weekend.
Thursday is the day Marietta got home from Heifer International. She had a great trip and wonderful time. She bonding more with some of her friends, and most importantly she grew as a person. I am hopeful she was as forceful at times as she said she was, but I don't know for sure. Since Friday was Veterans day and both the kids were off from school, I decided to go ahead and take a day's vacation, this would prove to be fortuitous. On Friday morning at 1:45 a.m Susan's mom and dad called. Her dad had fallen when walking to the bathroom. Since both kids were still in bed, Susan went to help and get him in bed. She lifted him into his bed and stayed with him until around 3 a.m. Needless to say, I could not go back to sleep and waited for her to show up at home. When she got home we talked a bit and then went to sleep. The phone rang again at 6:45 a.m. This time it was Marilyn, Susan's mom, who had fallen. I got up and went this time. Susan was on the ragged edge and I was a bit more rested. When I got there of course the door was double locked. I had to go around to the back and open the back door. There was a table against the door and I pushed it over to get in the house, catching the plate just before it hit the ground. ARRRGGHHHH that was a pain in the bottom.
I went upstairs and sure enough she was on the ground. She was not injured, but had taken a sleeping tablet and was totally out of it. She was almost drooling in dopeyness. I lifted her up and got her sitting in a chair. From them we walked very slowly to the bed where I helped lift her into her bed and put her to sleep, well the sleep was a result of the pills she had taken. Remind me never to be that drugged up! I cannot believe she was totally out and in the next 2 hours it would really make itself known.
After Marilyn was asleep, I went over and started talking with Dale. This entire event occurred as a result of him wanting his doctors directory. We got the directory out and he had me look up his orthopedist name. Randall Schultz. We called, but it was 7:30 a.m. He was in a staff meeting. Dale in his most serious Doctors voice, ran roughshod over the lady on the phone, and pushed his way to Randall's direct phone and to his nurse. He then ran over the nurse to make sure Dr. Schultz called him back.
For then next hour I sat and talked with Carlos Dale. We laughed a bit and he talked quite a bit. Told me what I was doing wrong raising Parker and how perfect Marietta is turning out. I love the man who did not have a boy, much less one that has Parker's CF issues, gives advice. I listened and perhaps some help lay in those comments, but mostly it was non-applicable. What the boy needs is more activity, and it is not something I can hold a gun to his head and make happen.
Well, Dr. Schultz called back and it was decided that Dale should go to the hospital. Since it was obvious I could not take him to the hospital, we called 911 and had the ambulance service bring him. What started with 3 EMT's expanded to 4 more firemen to help lift him to the ambulance. This was due to the fact the only way to get Dale out of his house was to take him in a mega mover which requires 5 people to move one. While great for the patient it does take 5 people.
Let me paint this picture. There were 4 large firemen, 1 large EMT, 2 medium EMT men in my in-laws bedroom. My wife and her sister. My father-in-law and sleeping oblivious to all of this because of the sleeping pill, my mother-in-law. That makes 9 people talking moving stuff around, taking vitals, talking in normal voices, and Marilyn is asleep. The EMT was a bit concerned until Marilyn flipped over and started snoring. She was totally out of it. My brother in law, Andy and I could not stop laughing. We tried, but come on, it was funny.
So by 9 a.m. on Friday, I had been at my in-laws taking care of them and getting my father in law into the ambulance and starting on a path that would dominate the weekend.
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