Updates

You know folks...I check the blog daily to see who else has blogged -- I just don't blog on MY blog too often. I'm a blog-stalker. But - when I logged in today and realized my last past was in February and BEFORE mom's surgery I thought a little update would do...

So - Mom did finally have her surgery. There was a snafoo with the workman's comp and it took a little longer to happen than the dr's liked - but it's done now.

On March 4th she went in and they stuck a loooong needle in her back and shot cement (body approved) into the vertebra that was compressed to un-compress it. (When you have a compression fracture your normally rectangular vertebra becomes more trapezoidal...there for requiring cement to un-compress it and re-rectangularize it. *Words may or may not have been made up in the explaining of this procedure*)

She ended up staying in the hospital overnight thanks to pain from the incision for the looong needle (not the back). However after a rough morning, she went home and has steadily improved. Last week she ventured out for a long afternoon for the first time since the beginning of February. She walked the mall one day, met me for lunch another, and even drove for the first time. She started physical therapy this week. She's learning how to move and bend all over again to keep this kind of thing from happening again.

She can return to work in about 3 weeks or before if physical therapy releases her. That means she will have been out almost all of Feb, all of March, and into APRIL. Oh yeah - and she's retiring so when school ends, she's done. I might be a slight shade of green...(not about the injury...just the time off and retiring -- mostly retiring.

So - that's the update on Mom. :)

(no picks...just words...be watching for a Paddy's day weekend post...I might get it done before my birthday?!)