Today has been insane. I spent much of the day at the grocery store loading up on the half of my list I couldn't get finished yesterday. My sister went with me, so that was really nice. We have been both very concerned about my nephew who lives in another state who was going to have emergency surgery. He is 10 years old and had developed a cholesteatoma in his ear which was apparently huge and had eaten away some of the bone in his ear and had caused a little damage to a nerve that controls part of his face.
At the same time, an elderly friend of ours fell and broke her shoulder. She had been immobile on the floor of her garage for 30 minutes before anyone found her! She was taken to the ER, and I went to visit her a couple of times. I was so glad that I could be busy helping someone.
My nephew's surgery was successful. He no longer has a middle ear, so he will not be able to hear out of that ear until they reconstruct the middle ear in 6-12 months.
My elderly friend's shoulder was a clean break, and fortunately, even though she is almost 85, she has the bones of an 18 year old. I wish that I was already a nurse so that I would be able to help her more.
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