I arrived in Fargo Wednesday and enjoyed the company of Mom and Bop (Michael), and Ken and Bea (Mom’s brother & sister-in-law).  It was a shock for me to see Mom so thin and in a wheel chair.  Later that evening, after I went to bed, Mom got up to use the rest room.  Since she’s so weak and wearing heavy slip-on slippers, she stumbled on the runner in the hall and fell.  Fortunately Bop woke up to her yell and together they got her upright.

We were lucky that she didn’t get badly hurt and broke no bones.  She did get up with a couple of abrasions on her knee and elbow, and today she’s pretty sore on the side she fell.  Since I’m a heavy sleeper, the house could fall down around me and I wouldn’t know.  This was scary.  Mom was the most shaken obviously, and it’s not a laughing matter.  But given she’s okay, she didn’t object to the moniker…”Help I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”  From now on she keeps to her chair and we get her to where she needs to go. 

     ~ BethAnn