Well, CRAP.

[gogmagog]

Well, my parents are in town for my stepdad's job interview, and yesterday and today things went pretty swimmingly. His interviews yesterday and today sound like they went pretty well, my mom and I had fun catching up over several meals out (the Airliner's pizza is as good as whoever suggested it said - I think it was eikitty?), my mom looked around at realtors and stuff, I showed my parents some of Iowa City that I've discovered in the last month, and all that jazz.

This evening after supper (which was at Micky's Irish Pub, and was quite good) my parents took me out to Hy-Vee to do some shopping. (Since I don't have a car, it's hard for me to do a "big" shopping run on my own.) I got the groceries, we came back to drop them by my apartment, and on the way down the back steps to my apartment building's back entrance, my mom (who has lupus and fibromyalgia, and hence a limited range of mobility) fell and took a spill. My stepdad's taking her to the emergency room right now, but her knee is looking kind of bad (like, maybe broken bad). She also scraped up her arms and legs and banged her head. I would have gone with them, but they were both all, "Don't worry about it, you have class in the morning, you need your sleep." But I'm worried at the moment, and don't think I'll probably be ABLE to go to sleep until they get finished at the ER and call to fill me in. :(

Edit: My mom called me about 1 a.m., and while I was a bit muzzy-headed from having been woken up I'm fairly certain that there turned out to be no serious injuries, though they did prescribe some Percoset for her. So, yay?

Comments

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Ah man, max suckage. I can relate, having spent lots of time worrying about relatives in the ER... x_x *hugs* I hope she's all right!

(Whoa, I didn't know your mom had fibromyalgia. My mom has that too, and apparently I'm showing some of the warning signs of it myself. Grf.)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

My mom has had pretty much everything that can go wrong with her body go wrong, aside from the biggies (cancer, etc.). But she's been in middling to poor health for as long as I can remember, and in recent years that's just gotten worse (she was only diagnosed with lupus and fibro while I was in England, which was just a couple of years ago). :(

You're showing warning signs of fibromyalgia? That's not good, especially as young as you are, right? Hopefully it doesn't progress any further for a good long time. :(

[shinkun.livejournal.com]

=(

[anchan218.livejournal.com]

I hope your mom is doing ok. >_>

[courters28.livejournal.com]

That sucks about your mom! But I'm glad that it didn't turn out serious and I'm glad Ben's interview went so well. Mina has been very good for us, she does this weird thing where she sorta digs/claws at the dirt sometimes and Vinnie and I think it is hilarious. Also, you guys get an ASSLOAD of mail. Vinnie and I have gotten less all week than you guys get in one day.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she totally thinks she's a cat and wants to cover over it when she pees. XD

As for the mail, you've gotta consider: you've only been at that address for a couple of months, whereas my mom's been at our address for almost THIRTY YEARS. XD