This Weekend
well, this weekend has been nothing if not busy. That isn’t all good in this case though.
Friday, we were all home, the kids were home for Veterans Day, hubby normally has Fridays off. So, I got to sleep in. We really didn’t get a whole lot done. Did make a couple quick trips out, nothing spectacular though
Saturday, we went shopping for some stuff that we needed…and a lot that we didn’t. But that was fine. We all played a couple rounds of Battleship, and basically had a good evening…until…
I get a phone call from the police department. The officer asked for me and asked if I knew one of my elderly friends, to which I answered that I did, and quickly found a chair as I felt like I was going to pass out. Whole lots of horrible things just popped into my head, as she is 90 and does have some other health issues. He then told me that my friend had been involved in a car accident. My friend has a rather serious case of Macular Degeneration, wet in one eye and dry in the other. She is NOT supposed to drive and I didn’t think that she would have. She had gone to the supermarket for a few items and didn’t want to bother me. By the time she got done at the store it was dark out, not that she should have been driving at all. She couldn’t see the lines on the road and left her lane. She swears that the other lady hit her…I just don’t know.
While on the phone with the police, I told them about her “situation”, and they assured me that they would not be giving her her license back. I have encouraged her many times not to drive and also to sell her car. She is a really independent lady and does quite well…if it were not for her eyes, I am sure she would be fine to drive. So, I went down to where she had the accident and picked her up and drove her back to her house. When we got there, I told her how she scared me and made her promise not to drive her car. I told her that I would be there to drive her were ever she needed to go, if she couldn’t get a ride from the Dial-a-ride.
I am going to try to call her everyday, just to check on her and make sure that she is all set with food, rides and things like that. I don’t know what else I can do. Her family lives far from her and I am the only one she can call for emergencies and things like that. Oh well…
Today, was normal for a Sunday…church, home, nap, dinner, family home evening, and TV. Of course it is now Monday, so a whole day worth of crisis’s are awaiting me. Wish me luck.
