Christmas Vacation....Part TWO!!

   O.K. So Mom is doing pretty well so I start looking for a part time job to help with our situation. Not looking forward to working a second job but, "ya do what ya gotta do".
   I went to our new Publix that recently opened in our town to see if they were hiring. I worked for them for 6 years back in the 90's so I figured that was a good place to start. They do an online job application so I went over to the application kiosk and started filling in the info. I was wearing a jacket and was starting to sweat so I pulled my jacket off. Then I started getting dizzy and lights were flashing in my eyes. I was going to ask for a chair.......
   The next I remember I heard a voice asking if I was ok. I thought I was having a dream when a Publix employee was huddled over me asking me again if I was ok. I finally realized that I was lying on the floor of Publix and I had actually blacked out! That has never happened to me before but I have come very close at work before a few times.
   The Managers wanted to call an ambulance for me but I assured them I was ok and only needed some water and a chair. I could tell I was going to have a huge Fred Flintstone lump on my head and it was already pretty big.
  So I drive home after I finished my application and walked in the house to tell Don and Jennifer what had happened. The next day I can barely walk on my right foot and I was thinking I had broken it or something. I am able to get an appointment that afternoon and after Xrays they say I have a sprain and give me a "boot" to wear. I hobble around the rest of the day and go to bed...all is well.
   NOT!! I wake up on New Year's Eve morning and I can see my skin from my cheek from the bottom of my vision. I look in the mirror and my right side of my face is swollen and starting to turn all sorts of colors. I put an ice pack on but it continues to swell more. Ok...I can deal with this. Feels kind of funny though with seeing part of my cheek while looking forward. Throughout the day and on New Years Day I look like a Klingon. Don keeps doing the "live long and prosper" greeting to me. Never a dull moment.
   Sunday morning I do not look like a Klingon anymore but now I look like I have gone "3 rounds with Rocky Balboa". My right eye is swollen and puffy blue, purple, green.  I do not put my ankle boot on today because something in it has given me an allergic reaction. Right where it was at on my leg is red and very itchy. What luck I am having!
   I have to go back to work on Tuesday....I am VERY glad to get back to the safety and security of my home away from home!! This has been the craziest most emotional Christmas break I have ever lived through. I HOPE that most of the bruising is gone when I get back to work. The way the gossip factory is around town no one will ever believe that I was hurt to way I was. I guess I need to get the tape from Publix for proof! I would like to see it myself just to see exactly what happened.
   So that is how my 2 weeks off went. I am warning the Deer now.....get out of my way on Tuesday Morning. Sheila is on her way!
 

Christmas Vacation was not what I am used to!! Part ONE

   I always look forward to Christmas Vacation from school/work as a time to rest, relax, get things done I normally don't have time to do in a normal week. This break was none like any other I have ever experienced and I hope to never experience again!
   School ended with the kids on early release and having lunch with the school staff. The very next day I received a call from my sister telling me that our Mom was in the hospital with chest pains. The next update was that she was being sent to Tallahassee for further care. I received many more calls from my Sister and my brother-in law the rest of the afternoon getting updates. The Doctors in Tallahassee determined that Mom had had a massive heart attack and they would need to do a heart catheterization immediately. Well...once they got in there they found her artieries 90% blocked and that they could do no repair because of the damage and her artieries being too thin. Next came the dreaded call- Do we authorize a DNR or not. Even though Mom has told us for years that her wishes were to issue DNR it was still a very difficult thing to utter. Thankfully Mom was awake and able to tell the Doctors herself what her wishes were. The Doctor told my sister that Mom would not leave the hospital. Scary thought. I slept as much as I could with the phone next to me that night waiting for a word...any word.
   Jennifer and I got up the next morning and made the drive to the hospital. When I got there she was sitting up talking! I was surprised to see this! She was not perfect as she developed congestive heart failure and pneumonia as well while there. She started getting her color back and was able to fuss at the nurses so we knew she felt better!
  The power of prayer is amazing! Church friends, facebook friends, and anyone who would listen to our story sent prayers and to our amazement God issued an extended warranty on Mom this Christmas Season!
Mom has since been sent back to Moultrie...not to her apartment but to a rehab center where she is trying to get stronger and hopefully back to her home.
   I know that Mom's time is limited here on earth. She is 88 years old but at least we had her for one more Christmas! God is an amazing God!

Part TWO coming!