Bad news

[wiseheart]

And I mean REALLY bad news. Mum's taken a fall in the living room and dislocated her hip. After an hour spent in romantic discomfort on the floor the ambulance finally arrived and took her to the hospital. I wasn't allowed to go with her because of the f*cking plague. Nor will I be able to visit her. I wanted her to take my mobile phone but she panicked that she won't be able to deal with it, so no contact whatsoever.

I am really scared. I am scared shitless. I'm scared that they'll ruin her hip, just as the incompetent butchers in the other hospital ruined her shoulder twenty or so years ago. I'm scared that after a year of voluntary isolation she might get the cursed virus, after all. She's 89, for f*ck!s sake!

Somebody hand me a bucket, please, I feel the sheer irresistible urge to bawl...

Update: it turns out that the leg is broken, after all. Mum is now waiting for surgery.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry. It is bad enough when you are able to be there, I can only imagine how helpless it must feel to not be able to visit at all.

I can see from your comments that it is actually broken (is it at the top? A fractured neck of femur? I am only being nosy because, many years ago, I worked in an orthopaedic ward and that was the most common fracture in older ladies). I would hope they can get her home to you quite quickly after surgery.

As motodraconis says, hospital are doing their utmost to keep covid and non-covid patients separated, but I can understand it still being an added worry. I will remember you both in my prayers.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know what is broken. They didn't tell me and I forgot to ask, I was so in shock about the news. I'll try to find out more when I call them again.