And They All Fall Down

Sunday as we were leaving our beach house for the weekend, my mom fell. My little family was packed up in our truck and headed towards home and before we left the driveway, my mom noticed The Princess’ aka Emma medicine (she has skin allergies she takes meds for) on the window sill in the kitchen. Mom didn’t want Emma to miss any doses so she grabbed everything flew down the back steps and up the concrete and wood steps in the back yard. In flip flops. She tripped and fell hitting her right knee, foot, elbow and hand. By the time I got to her it looked like there was a softball inside her knee. I ended up driving her car home since she and my step-dad drove separately. Later that night, step-dad finally convinced her she needed to go to the hospital. Nothing was broken, but she needed an MRI to make sure there were no tears in the muscle or ligament damage. She has been stuck in a brace from her thigh to the middle of her calf. Yesterday, she started having bad pains in her calf. Dad took her to the doctor and after 4 doctors and 7 hours jumping from office to office, they discovered a blood clot in her calf. They put her on injections (that I have to give her) for the next 5 days and a blood thinner for 6 weeks. She has to have blood work done twice a week for the duration of the blood thinners. She is terrified, but will never admit how scared she is. We know someone that died from a blood clot like this.



Big Daddy has given her strict orders to give up the flops. She has taken major, hospital trip type falls wearing those damn Old Navy Flip Flops. Twice after hitting her head while launching the boat in the marina, once falling on the dock, and now this time in the back yard. So maybe the Old Navy flops need to be vetoed at the beach only. She has them in every stinkin color they make. I’m buying her some real, hard bottomed, decent flops. She likes the Old Navy ones because they are cheap and doesn’t feel bad when they get funky and tosses them out. So please keep her in your thoughts that this clot dissolves on its own and gives her no further problems.