My Mum & Dad
Aug. 20th, 2007 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfWhen I was a child, my parents were very definite about a ritual they had - neither would leave the house without kissing the other goodbye. They said an insurance study had shown that people who were kissed before they left the house had fewer accidents. But that was really just an excuse to show their love for each other. I have continued the practice of "insurance" in my marriages too.
Sunday morning, my father went into to kiss my mother goodbye as he went off to play some early morning handball (or something like that). She said something nonsensical and he recognized that she had had a stroke and called 911. If he hadn't been a physician himself and if he hadn't had the lifelong habit of kissing her goodbye things might have gone much worse. As it is she is recovering very well. Mum passed her cognitive tests this morning with ease and they will probably only keep her in hospital another 24 hours. We hope for a full recovery.
Thank you to all my friends in various networks who are sending her energy. I really appreciate it and along with the prayers of her community and my father's quick action it seems to be doing the trick.
Sunday morning, my father went into to kiss my mother goodbye as he went off to play some early morning handball (or something like that). She said something nonsensical and he recognized that she had had a stroke and called 911. If he hadn't been a physician himself and if he hadn't had the lifelong habit of kissing her goodbye things might have gone much worse. As it is she is recovering very well. Mum passed her cognitive tests this morning with ease and they will probably only keep her in hospital another 24 hours. We hope for a full recovery.
Thank you to all my friends in various networks who are sending her energy. I really appreciate it and along with the prayers of her community and my father's quick action it seems to be doing the trick.
