I love my mom, dad, and sister!

So I was at home for the next two weeks after the accident. I had been in the hospital for 3.5 days. The afternoon I arrived home, my mother and her friend Heakyu ran around town getting various items for me. My prescription pain medication, oxycotane, and prescription laxative (I hadn't gone since Monday). They went to walgreens to get me a cane, a toilet seat raiser, and a thing that could reach 3 feet so that I didn't have to bent down to get anything.

My sister, Marie, came up from Corvallis to see how I was doing. I am pretty sure I looked pathetic. I called my dad and told him that everything was ok, and that mom was helping me out. I tried to describe what had happened, and I wasn't sure what to tell him. I was supposed to get my dressing changed at some point. I had to take a sponge bath in bed. But I was not capable of doing all this. So my mother took care of me. She bathed me like a small child. She even got a waterless hair washing cap thing that was a showercap that had some chemicals in it that would wet my hair and clean it. (The things they have no days.) My mom took pictures of my scar without the dressing. My mom helped me use the toilet for the first few days. My mom got food for me. My mom cooked for me. My mom cleaned for me. My mom cleaned me.

I am incredibly thankful for my mother. She was there for me for two weeks doing whatever it is I needed to do. She drove me to work so that I could say hello to my coworkers and reassure them that I was ok. She did everything for me, and I am forever grateful for it. I love and appreciate my mother very much, and I am so lucky to have a mother like her.

Marie taught me which bone I actually broke, since I had no real concept of what broke. She told me it was the vertebrae under my last floating rib cage, and it made all the difference in the world. It was RAINBOOOOWWWWWWWSSSSSS! all over again =) I love my sister!

Dad was always calling to make sure I was ok. He made sure that my mom had a rental car for her every day throughout her stay. I love my dad!