Some people wake up to Alarm clocks, and other stuff, this morning I was woken up by the phone. It was still dark outside so I knew it was early.  I answered it and this is what the conversation was “Hello”  “Joanne, it’s your Dad”, “Hi”  “I need you to get over here as soon as possible and help, your Mom’s on the floor”.  “Okay, let me get dressed and I’ll be right there”.

So, I did what every good daughter does, fly outta the house in my p.j’s with my tennis shoes and get outside and realize damn, it’s cold.  I make the trip over and arrive and sure enough my Mom is on the floor.  “Uh…Mom what are you doing on the floor and how long have you been here?”  “The  squirrel in the window was bothering me, and I don’t know how long I’ve been here.”  Between the Farmer  and I, we got her back onto the bed and then assessed the damage.  Well, she is going to have a Shiner on her eye, and she has rug burns on her cheek, and while it looks bad, it’s really not as bad as it could have been.

We are not really sure why she got up in the middle of the night, it has been about 3 months since the last time she attempted to get up.  But…we did some research and found this  Ez adjust bed rail. EZ Adjust Bed Rail by Standers

Which will be delivered on Thursday.  This outta keep her butt in bed. 

After the ordeal of everything, my Mom was in pretty good spirits and drank some coffee, I got her cleaned up and dressed and made it out to her power lift chair with only a couple of warbles.  Although, she did try to do some negotiating with me.  As in, “you know, that was kind of hard to spend the night on the floor, so I think you should make me some chocolate chip cookies to make me feel better.”  uh…ok….  So, I whipped up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and then the Farmer got in on the act….. “uh, Joanne I really liked the tuna casserole thingy that you made and I could sure eat one for dinner to make ME feel better after being stressed and upset over your Mom”…uh ok…..

So, I fixed both of them up good, I made a double batch of cookies and froze half the dough and there are 4 tuna casserole thingy’s in the freezer, right along side those cookies.

And me?  Yes, I was stressed, yes I was upset.  But I actually surprised myself today, because I am ok!  I spent the afternoon getting the skunk stripe out of my hair and am now a nice new shade of  auburn, the Electrician and I had leftover green chili chicken enchilada’s for dinner and I am in my “comfy” clothes getting ready to watch the Walton’s. 

Today, while it may not have started out the way any of us wanted it to, has been a really good day.  My Mom survived and has promised not to get out of bed tonite, she got chocolate chip cookies, the Farmer got a tuna casserole thingy for dinner and I…well,  I have the satisfaction of knowing today I made a difference.