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The thing is, I have been receiving emails and just 2 days ago, this short one:
Mom:
I am glad to hear you are home safe and almost sound, your femur excepted. I am sorry to hear you are in such pain. I hope you get well soon.
A
If she fell in January, and has never mentioned a broken back, I don't know what this means? She's never mentioned. I am at my wit's end, that she wouldn't want me to know, yet the thing is, I couldn't do ANYTHING there that I can't do from here .....words and worry only.
So I am in denial of a sort, like on a tightrope. If it is a healable break and back to normal, she will be fine, but if the spinal cord is involved there could be temporary to permanent paralysis and I don't know.
My sister let it slip and I replied mentioning this and asked if it were a slip.......... because I hadn't known.
Now I await a reply from my sister, and she will reply but I know is celebrating Easter Sunday. I won't call until I find out if my D wants me to know! That just seems like the right way to handle it if she will be better and KNOWS that I cannot go back there for her and be useless if I did! I have too much respect for people's wishes and if this is hers I will respect them and she will be better before Christmas and tell me all!........?
I feel as though in la-la -land, but if my sister knows, then so do others back in Ontario and I expect all have agreed not to tell me out here in BC.
Do you know why anyone would apply for a long form birth certificate? She emailed me for answers to many questioins on Jan 30 and prior to that was an email that states:
have been busy puttering and swimming at the pool and spending time at the gym... got out of the habit in the fall and am trying to get back into it.
Hang on, new email from sister--
Oh my bad but good!!!!
I sent A. an e-mail that you had been hurt and she phoned me to find out details. She told me then about her accident. I believe that there is no neurological damage. A. is in a body cast and will be able to return to work in August. She can move about now but gets tired after a couple of hours.
I think the ladder slipped on ice that A. didn’t see and fell out from under her. She landed in a semi-sitting position, causing a fracture of two vertebrae, T12 and L1. She did not need surgery nor does she have any spinal cord damage.
I asked her if you knew, since you hadn’t mentioned it, and she said she hadn’t been talking to you and I asked if I ought to tell you and she had no objection. I had that uppermost in my mind to tell you when you let me know that you were home, but so much time passed before I heard from you that I didn’t realize I hadn’t told you. I apologize for that; it must have come as quite a shock. Your prayers regarding no spinal cord injury have been answered. But, as you say, there will be a long healing process and you, of all people, will know how tough that will be for A. and – by extension – for you.
Well, by cracky, she is her mother's daughter. We don't waste $$$ on the telephone and to never have hers answered would be par for her busy days. However, to never answer mine would raise a flag, after a few days.
hiya Hops
I saw you get in there. As you can see, it was a slip and with so little info I stayed in denial until I heard. Three hours difference, so Sis is eating dinner with her family and wouldn't be checking emails. now she has cleared it up.
Just as we all would hope for, after the words 'broken back'.
If she had been paralysed, her emails would not have arrived on their semi steady basis. She would have been in hospital on a strycker frame, and far more distraught than thinking, "This,too, shall heal!"
Thank you both for your kind words. I have to wait a bit so that I don't become overwrought on the phone with the up, down and up of today.
Love all
Izzy
