Ice Disaster

      The bad news of the week involves the bad ice St. Louis had this week.  The day before snow had melted and then refrozen into a sheet of ice during the night.  Driving was no problem since the streets were well salted, but walking on the ground was.  I was across the state line in Illinois when I got a phone call from dear friend Becky, who sounded very distressed.  "I fell on the ice by the front porch.  I can't get up and I need help!" 

    "Oh, no! Becky, I'm over an hour away.  Let me call my husband and see if he is home to come and help you."  She hadn't been able to reach her husband,  Bob, who was out at the farm.  So I called Sweetface who was on his way to church for band practice, but he turned around and drove back as fast as he could.  Becky lives just a mile or so away from us. By the time he got there Becky had called an ambulance, and it was right behind him. 

    To make a longer story short, Becky had broken her femur (the biggest leg bone) into 3 pieces!  By the time I got to the E.R. an hour later Bob was there along with some other friends.  We stayed at the hospital until she went to surgery, recovery, and then to her room. 

      I couldn't help but grab a snapshot as she was being wheeled into surgery, despite her protests that she looked horrible. By then she had been given lots of much needed pain meds,  so I told her she was just delirious. Actually she looked a whole lot better than I would have in that situation!

 

     So now we friends are kitty-sitting for her while she spends a week of recovery at Rehab.

Unfortunately, there were many such serious falls and injuries all across the area.  A woman that Sweetface works with had to leave work this week--her husband had fallen and gotten a concussion and broken ribs.  I am so thankful for our access to emergency care and dedicated health professionals who make everything well again.

 

     Feel free to leave a Get-Well message for Becky in the Comments below.