March 19, 2003

• Who Needs to Make Up Excuses

  
  

  Just the other day I was expounding on the marvels of researching and test driving motor scooters as great diversions. This diversion lasted me more than a week, then I had to get down to work on the taxes. I was doing it! I was making headway. I made my piles and was going to really dig into the matter, entering the categories and more....I really was. Then life threw another diversion into my life. Admittedly, this one is not as fun, this one is not as tantalizing. This diversion is a life necessity one.

  
  

  My mother fell while trying to step over a curb. She was in pain. At first we thought it was probably a sprain. I got the phone call while teeing up on the 17th hole. The funny thing is that I almost never take my phone with me on the course. I almost fled the golf course on  the 17th hole, but what golf addict would do that? I finished the 18th and then headed over to her house. (This was one time where the phone was a good thing to have on the golf course.)

  
  

  Remember, the old gal is about to turn 91. This usually increases the presumptive diagnosis from sprain to fracture.....added to the fact that she has a touch of osteoporosis....what 91 year old lady doesn't? So, we go off to the ER to get it x-rayed. Wow, what an experience. There were people with bandages around their legs with their socks full of red paint???? nope, not paint there...it was blood. Can't forget the vomiting woman, or the man with the patch on his eye....foreign body, said he was in pain......doc said 'you'd best go to the ophthalmologist.

  
  

  Dear old Mom, gets the foot x-rayed and the technician says 'It looks good, no problem. Doc will tell you just to go home'. He got half of it right. The Doc says 'He's just the technician, I am the Doctor, and I say the metatarsals are broken." And then ole doc says " There is nothing we can do for it. Go home, take some Tyenol Extra Strength".

  
  

  Mom was going to go to her own HUD subsidized apartment in 3 weeks. Now, we are not sure what will happen. We moved her into our place, and have to care for her every need. Miranda shines at this job, but is mostly busy working. The job takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. I find that I am not fit for the nursing business.

  
  

  Today, our water filter broke and after the main was turned off, every towel in the house was used to mop up the flood. I spent the day running around caring for Mom and getting new water filters.......

  
  

  So, for the past 2 days, I've had too many diversions from my taxes and now am wishing for some time to do the taxes!!!!!! Isn't life funny.

  
  

  I was reading a blog that a teenager wrote. She is a very wonderful writer and she was voicing a concern of being contradictory. I say, life is contradictory and so am I. I say it proud, I be it proud.

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