WHAT A STORY!

Picture this: Wensday evening September 30th last week 2009.

I picked up my mother to take her to see my brother in Woodland Washington.

At our arrival my brother was in more pain than ever.

I called 911 and when they arrived my little niece Elie got off her school bus

and in such a fright looked out the door as they took her daddy away.

I comforted her as I did my Mother to. The family came & we all followed in

our cars behind the Ambulance.

My brothers condition was full bowel impaction from 6 days ago.

With pancreatic cancer that is worse than labor pains with no medication. By morning the Doctor had him on higher pain dose and cleaned out his intestines as they do not work anymore.

The story goes on as I told Elie & my Mother we needed to get a little dinner.

My mom wanted to go up stairs, and I told her No, the elevator would be safer for her.

Well, after dinner she insisted on the stairs. I stayed close tho her. There were  4 sets of hard marble flooring. Scared the crap out of me as I watched my Mother take small steps going down & I was watching Elie so she did not slip.

I looked at Mom & suddenly She slipped on the second set of stairs!

I lost grip of her & down she went! I saw my Mom hit twice as I tried to catch her.

I was going to let her land on my right leg to break her third fall.

Even if my leg broke my Mom would survive. The sound of her head hitting the floor was horrible as I caught her & we slid down the last stair case & on to the floor.

I had my Mothers head in my lap & my right leg was going numb. But I did not care at

this point I knew my brother was in good hands but I did not know at that time what his condition was. All I  know is my Mothers head was in my lap at the bottom of the stairs, blood coming from her temple. It was alot. I remarkably stayed calm as I am trained in nursing, but my Mom? My brother? Give me a break! :(!!!

As my Mother lay there I had to keep her awake. My lap filled with my Mothers blood & more  then I can imagine.

No one in sit!e I screamed!!!!!! Security came & than everyone in the hospital came from secretaries to Doctors & emergency. They pulled my mother up in a stretcher & pulled me out. Elie ran. I thought she had seen enough.

My Mother survived! She was in ER room 120 & my brother was room 121! I took the day off to be a Nurse & I was caring for my Mom & brother on my off day! My goodness. The CT scan on my Mother came out no internal injury!! What?

I saved her life under all the circumstances, I was going from my brothers room to my mom, and I stayed strong. I do have my bad days still about my brother, but hey don't we all have bad day?

Thanks for listening, Judy :)