I just wanted to let everyone know what is going on with my Mom's Mom...my Grandma.
Monday evening she had gone to my aunts house. My aunts driveway has some awful ruts that they can not figure out why they are there. When Grandma got there, it was daylight , so she wasn't worried about parking to not hit the ruts because she thought that she would be able to see them when she went out. She ended up leaving when it was dark. She was walking to the car to drive home and she fell into one of the big ruts. She got herself back up enough to throw rocks at the door of the house to get someone's attention to help her. They took her to Memorial in Springfield. She has some bruises and scrapes on her face from her glasses. Her legs are very sore and one knee is bruised, scraped and pretty swelled.
Now, for her arm. Her shoulder was dislocated, and she had a couple of breaks. Therefore, the Orthapedic Surgeon went in yesterday to set the bone back into place. His plan was to be able to put the bone back into place and it would all heal back together the way that it should. Unfortunately, when he went to put the bone back, the "ball" of the shoulder broke off from the rest of the bone. So, now she has 2 pieces of bone broke off and the shaft of the bone in the middle. This did help the pain somewhat because the pressure was no longer on the fracture between the "ball" and the rest of the bone.
So, she has been scheduled to be at St. Johns at 9 on Friday morning to have a shoulder replacemement.
She may be coming home today. They have been trying to find an oral pain medication that would help her, and we think that they have found it. She will be staying at my aunts house.
She is in so much pain and she is scared. Please pray that she is given peace and strength to get through this. She is 78 years old. We are all doing the best that we can to help her. I am doing my best to be strong and help Mom through this too. She is doing very well though.
We would just apprecaite all of your thoughts and prayers! I will keep everyone updated when I can! Love You All!
