Night at the ER

Well, I am eating my words from a recent post where I said I wanted to avoid ER visits for my mom at her stage. How do you avoid this when she trips and takes a header into the corner of a countertop? When the facility calls and says she's in the ambulance, just two hours after I had dinner with her?

Here are the blessings: although she has a huge goose egg on her forehead and a laceration on her temple, she missed her eye and the CT scan showed no brain bleed. Although she is complaining of upper thigh pain, both xrays and CT show no fracture. She is groggy from pain meds and not cooperative when awake, and there is no way I can try to get her into my car. So the ER has called for non emergent transport back to her facility. Likely this won't happen till later in the morning. Good, she can sleep ... and I won't.

But when we get back to MC, what will prevent her from doing this again? Nothing. Or maybe she'll just refuse to walk since her legs hurt (I'm guessing she landed on top of her walker). And it's the weekend...it'll be the med tech on duty's call if they send her back to ER for some minor complaint. Sigh.

Thanks for listening to my late night ruminations ....