Based on how warm the weather has been, I had planned for today’s Buzzyblog to be along the lines “Man this sure has been a nice February; sorry to see it go”
(For related Washington Post story click here.) In fact, a couple times this month I was about to post something along those lines but held off because I knew that as soon as I did so we would get slammed with several inches of snow and freezing weather. But today’s forecast looks like we’ve made it. (That’s as close to a Barry Manilow reference as I’ll ever get.)
So that was Plan A for today. But in true keeping with the old saying Man plans, God laughs, I have more than weather on my mind right now. You see my Mom fell in her house Sunday morning getting up from a chair and broke a bone in her left foot while breaking her right ankle in three places. She was operated on Sunday night to repair the ankle and is recovering from the churn. As patients go, let’s just say that Mom is not in Billboard’s Top Forty. Plus, she’s 85 years old and isn’t learning any new coping skills at this point in her life.
Today the hospital folks are going to try and have her get out of bed to see if she is ambulatory enough to be discharged to a nursing home where she will undergo additional physical therapy. Of course, she just wants to go back to her house and not have anything at all to do with the nursing home business.