Surgery scheduled for Monday & A Little Bad News.

She's pretty worn out from the transport to and from UAMS (the ambulance was a little late both ways, so it was the waiting that wore her out). and she was not very hungry even though she had missed lunch. She barely ate supper but hopefully she will rest well. She received a lot of extra pain medicine today in anticipation of a lot of handling of that left arm to determine what will need to be done on Monday.

John picked up her prescriptions in preparation for tomorrow. Dean and I spent the evening with Mom, having a lively discussion with her and her roommate, Ms. Beatrice, a very nice lady who is very pleasant even though she is also in a lot of pain. Ms. Beatrice reminds me a little of my sweet-natured Grandmonie who was suffering from very similar circumstances (congestive heart failure which also led to the amputation of one leg) when I was a senior in high school. Sadly, we can hear patients crying out in other rooms who seem to be in even more pain.

The bad news is that Mom's cast on her right arm will need to stay on about six more weeks due the severity of the break. As you may recall, it had been broken in five places and was like putting a puzzle together. Added to this is the fact that her left arm will also be in a cast following the orthopedic surgery, probably also for twelve weeks. Unfortunately, the orthopedic surgery must compromise some of the skin graft's success.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Thanks for your prayers and concern.

~Mindy