Backtrack

While the blog is to keep everyone updated, I'd also like for it to be a journal of sorts for Mom to see later and hopefully to be able to write her own thoughts and experiences when she is feeling better so I hope any readers are OK with some personal experiences and thoughts along the way. There were a few things I wanted to add that happened before we got the blog up that I wanted to remember...

When Mom was first brought to the hospital she was the one who was most stable so she was bumped to the end of the surgery list, plus she was having multiple surgeries. Dad wasn't gonna leave mom so the kids split up taking care of Dad. I (Brooke) got to stay with them the first night. In the daily grind I forgot how selfless my mom is but I was reminded of it constantly that night. For the first part every time Mom would wake up the first words out of her mouth were out of concern for who she might have hurt. At first she thought she was on the bus and that she had hurt the kids. Then she was afraid that she was in the car and when she saw me she was afraid that she's had her grand kids with her, after that she was asking about the other guy involved. A lot of the time she talked about her family and how much she loved us and while there are some very personal experiences that happened that are inappropriate to share in a blog there are a few "Donna-isms" I don't want to forget. Mom would wake up for literally 15-45 seconds and then sleep for the same span of time. Often we would have to repeat information that we had just told her 60 seconds ago. These are prime examples of why Donna, drugs, and concussions don't mix:

#1
Wakes up
Mom: "Did you ride in the ambulance with me?"
Dad: "No, you were life flighted in a helicopter."
Mom: "I was?! Oh, I missed it!"
Out cold
Repeated about 3 times then,
Mom: "Oh I remember!"
Brooke: "What?"
Mom: "I came on a train!"
Giggles and smiles from me and Dad.
Mom: "Oh wait... I didn't come on a train... did I? Was I on a train?"
Out Cold

#2
Wakes up
Mom: "Bevan?"
Dad jolts from head-bobbing sleep: "Yes?"
Mom: "Tell the ladies I can't make Bunco... wait can I go to Bunco?"
Out cold

#3
Wakes up
Mom looking worried: "Bevan was it my fault?"
Dad: "No, honey it wasn't your fault."
After a pause looking even more worried "Are we gonna sue? We're not suing are we?"
Out cold

#4
Wakes up
Brooke: "Mom, you were in an accident."
Mom: "I was? Was I assaulted?"
Brooke: "No mom, you were in a motorcycle accident."
Mom: "Oh, cause I made a report, and they're looking for me"
Brooke: "Who's looking for you?
Mom: "Mesquite Police"
Out cold

#5
Wakes up
Mom: "All I want, all that I wish I could have was a great big diet Pepsi."
Out cold

Later when she was a little more coherent she told me that she was having dreams all night which was crazy considering it was never more than a few seconds that her eye's would close. She kept the doctors and nurses pretty entertained with little comments she made to everything they said. She was pretty loopy!