We were wrapping up the call when she started screaming and the line went dead.
Redial.
No Answer.
REdial.
No ANSWER.
REDIAL! (Panic sets in.)
“Hello.”
Finally, an answer! This time it’s my father with terror and sleep in his voice.
“Is she okay?”
“No.”
“Dad, what’s wrong?!?”
“She fell down the stairs, to the bottom. Backwards.” He rushed on, “she’s up and moving but she’s frantic. I have to take her to the hospital.”
“I’ll call (my brother) and have him come to the house,” I blurted. “Go take care of mom.”
I am 7,003 miles away from home and measuring it in inches. I’ve just started my day, had a good chat with my mom and now I’m mobilizing the troops as my father rushes her to the hospital.
Thank god for my brother. He answered the midnight call (from an unknown number) raced to mom and dad’s house and continued to answer his phone as I called back every 15 minutes for updates. He even managed to talk me down after I imagined a worst-case-scenario for the knot on mom’s head.
[Note to Self: …no more House, M.D. marathons!]
Mom is fine! Not a break to be found. Just a knot on her head and a goose-egg bruise on her thigh from her midnight tumble down the stairs. I’m back to measuring the distance in miles, but there’s nothing like an accident to make you truly feel the space between.
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Hey Lady,
As always saying prayers for you as you go on all these adventures. Thankful that your mother is okay… even though she scared you to death! Miss you and think fondly of all our memories. Hope that you enjoy a wonderful 2011… you are loved! p.s. how can I read your password protected blogs???
Hey Lady,
As always saying prayers for you as you go on all these adventures. Thankful that your mother is okay… even though she scared you to death! Miss you and think fondly of all our memories. Hope that you enjoy a wonderful 2011… you are loved! p.s. how can I read your password protected blogs???
Hey Lady,
As always saying prayers for you as you go on all these adventures. Thankful that your mother is okay… even though she scared you to death! Miss you and think fondly of all our memories. Hope that you enjoy a wonderful 2011… you are loved! p.s. how can I read your password protected blogs???
I cannot imagine how it would feel to end a phone call with a blood-curdling scream! Sorry.. I continue to re-live that scene and am so thankful you called your brother and he came to dad’s rescue. Glad to be walking and talking.
Grateful for bruises only!
I cannot imagine how it would feel to end a phone call with a blood-curdling scream! Sorry.. I continue to re-live that scene and am so thankful you called your brother and he came to dad’s rescue. Glad to be walking and talking.
Grateful for bruises only!
I cannot imagine how it would feel to end a phone call with a blood-curdling scream! Sorry.. I continue to re-live that scene and am so thankful you called your brother and he came to dad’s rescue. Glad to be walking and talking.
Grateful for bruises only!