So, most of you know that my mom came up to visit about a week ago. A month prior, she had gone to summer camp with Velocity and, while there, decided to wrestle with my sister. My sister fell directly onto my moms knee in the process and hurt her badly. My mom likes to think she's tough and decided that since she could put some pressure on her leg, she was fine. She started swimming to strengthen it because she really wanted to be fine when she got out here. She completely got off the crutches and seemed to be walking around fine.
During their visit, we took my family to a park in Big Fork. My mom, the tough woman that she is, decided to neglect the fact that she had just hurt her knee and proceeded to leap up to grab onto some equipment. She pushed off with her hurt leg and we all watched in horror as she crumpled to the ground.
That was the first day they arrived.
She spent most of the trip on my couch, in pain, heavily medicated. They couldn't afford the emergency room and knew the diagnosis was going to call for surgery, which they didn't want to do here, and my mom's doctors didn't want to refill her pain meds since it had been a month since her previous injury. Johnny had to share his leftover meds (his elbow wasn't broken by the way) and we had some great friends help her out as well (you know who you are, THANKS!).
Well, she finally got to go to the doctor this morning. This is what she just told me about her injury, "My ACL is gone, and my meniscus is torn severely and bones fractured and muscle torn. I will be off it for at least six weeks after surgery, and 12 months of pt"
So sad! Her knee must have been worse than she thought from the first injury and this second one just kind of finished it off. Hopefully she'll learn to sit some things out and allow herself to heal. Just thought I'd update all of you who saw my mom crutching around.
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Well hopefully she isn't too "tough" and listens to the Doctors and is faithful with the PT work. That's the hard part. ;-)
Oh, I wish I could do something to help,... something other than pray, but this is where I find myself, too far away.
What ever shall we do with this woman? Surgeries, sickness, electrocution, and now this. Somebody needs to keep an eye on her! What are you doing in Montana! (jk)
tell me about it, I'm convinced she has been doing purely as a means to get me to stay there/come back :-)
I talked to her this morning. She sounded good but a little sleepy.
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