i started the day with coffee at the neighbours, then i caught up with another friend that cut me some beautiful flowers to take to the cemetary. this was to make up for the beautiful rose that was just about to bloom in my place that some person decided to cut from my garden.
no the rose wasnt hanging from my fence. The person would have walked close to my front door to cut it. Upsetting indeed as in my mind i had dedicated it to be taken for my father's graveside. Without having to ask , my friend cut some beautiful lillies and other various flowers for my dad.
Then as planned i went to mums where my sisters brothers brother in laws and my son had started the working bee. we had lunch and a few of us went to the cemetary (the others had been yesterday)
the men worked on putting a new rangehood on in the kitchen as the old one had seen the last of its days. others poured concrete outside where there was a little patch up job to be done.
my sisters set about washing curtains, basically spring cleaning.
It was a beautiful sunny day so i opted to do the weeding and general trimming of some flowers. My son helped with the more stubborn weeding that had grown on the outside of the fence. My sister painted the outside toilet, basically things that mum wanted fixed around the house.
A few minti members might know that mum had a nasty fall a couple of weeks ago and grazed her fingers. A couple of her fingers on the left hand were particularly in a a bad way. ahe had scraped the skin right down to the bone and it was infected. Antibiotics had to be taken for a course of time. bandages had to be changed every 2nd day and her right hand was also bandaged but not grazed to the extreme as the left.
the clinic luckily is diagonally opposite her place (very convenient) and mum had gone straight to the clinic. Apparently blood was pouring everywhere. Mum was very lucky indeed as she did fall on the footpath and the pavement is concrete. she also suffered a swollen lip and hurt her chin. We thank God that she didnt hurt her head or hit and break her nose.
You see mum didnt complain at all . She never does. She never wants to upset us and her faith always gets her through life. Mum is a very remarkable person and in turn we wanted to give her something back. Over the years no matter how much we try to give mum has always been one step ahead of us and always seems to give that little bit more. A remarkable woman really as i know i have 2 children and although im always there for them i find at times that its very tiring.
Mum has 6 children!!! mums age you might ask, a grand age of 90 yes you heard right. so we are all grateful that mum's fall didnt leave her with any permanent injury.
until we found out about her fall mum went about her chores , but the next day when the doctor changed the bandages they placed a metal inside the outer bandages of each hand to stop mu from bending them! Now the healing days have been hard for my mum because she loves to be on the go and do chores. This is what gets her through the day!
My brother who lives in the same street as mum has been getting her breakfast, then he comes home from work at lunch time to prepare her lunch and then my sil prepares her evening meal and washes her dishes for her.
just over twoweeks have now past a couple of fingers on each hand have healed and they are exposed away from the bandages. the left hand will take at least another two weeks to heal. Mum also has a hole in her hand where gravel become embedded in there and the doctor had to remove it.
we all walked away tonight tired but happy that we were able to help mum out
so goodnight to all . These aching limbs are crying for a good nights sleep!
love annie
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