I guess you know when you haven’t blogged enough.
When you have to change your password because you can’t it.
I guess I need to update more.
I am totally tired today and I am actually ready to go home, and take a nap ( I know, big shock). But I am tired today for other reasons. I am tired because I spent most of my night in the ER with my mom.
My mom, decided yesterday, she was going to go out in their back yard with no shoes on, like she tends to do, but this time, she wasn’t paying attention, was talking on the phone and she accidently stepped right down on my dad’s aeration shoe that he had out on the patio.
what is an aeration shoe, you ask? These:
So my mom had a 2 inch nail stuck all the way in her heel. She called me and I started freaking out. I rushed over there only to find my mom holding the shoe with one foot up because she said it hurt too much to move. That was the grossest thing I have ever seen…. I’m sure I have seen worse, but this will be in my mind for awhile since it just happened yesterday. So I got her a chair, sat her down and called 911.
The ambulance took forever to show up. When they did finally come, they took my mom away on a stretcher and I told them I woud follow. I had called Daniel sometime during the wait and asked him to come ride with me. So we both got in my truck and followed the ambulance.
The ambulance ticked me off. That was the slowest ambulance you could ever imagine. They let cars cut in front of them, stopped at lights and everything. They didn’t even have the sirens going. WTF??!
So we followed the ambulance to the Martin army base and we try to get through the gate. The guy at the gate asks me if I have a pass, as if I was going to stop at the main gate and get a pass while my mom has a rusty nail in her heel. I tell him no. He looks at me, looks at Daniel and says, ” man, that’s messed up.” WHAT?! He was about to turn us away. Luckily, his commanding officer came over and told us just to go through.
So at the ER, they take my mom in, we follow, and they proceed to take an x-ray and give my mom ” the good stuff” to take her pain away. The only problem was , ” the good stuff” came in a huge needle that they had to inject in my mom’s foot. Let’s just say, I have heard my mom curse alot, but I have never heard her string so many foul words together in my life. I’m sure no one else in the ER had ever heard that either because everyone kept looking towards my mom’s room. Without even giving my mom notice, the doctor takes this time to pull on the aeration show sticking out of my mom’s foot. It finally comes out after a few rough pulls. I am surprised my mom didn’t slap the guy.
After all that fuss, they take another x-ray and then everyone seems to really just disappear. My mom begins to feel a little better, after they give her some more morphine we all just sit there… waiting for the next step.
an hour goes by, the doctor comes back and in and says that the nail didn’t penetrate the bone and that my mom is free to go home. Then he disappears. We think it’s time to go, but little did we know, we were gonna sit there for 6 more hours before they finally let us go home.
I told my mom, she needed to have the insurance I have, so they would pay her to be in pain. I totaled up how much she would have been paid and she said it almost made her sick to her stomach.
While sitting there though, I looked over my mom’s paperwork to see what all they had written, and I noticed that under skin color they put N.You know what that means. I burst out laughing, because before all of that we were talking about how she was letting the fried chicken at the house burn up! I guess it’s only funny to me in a funny racist way.
Anyways, after 6 hours, they wrapped up her foot and gave her some crutches. One of the funniest things is seeing your mom, who has never used crutches, try to walk on crutches. One of the most painful things is, walking next to your mom, who has never used crutches, and having her take out your feet with every step.
But now, she is okay, but with crutches and I am still tired. And we have all learned a huge lesson from this experience, at least I think we did.
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