Last evening older sister called after spending a day following the alert phone call our mom had fallen.  She got to the house to find mom sitting on the floor about hysterical. Her eyes had gone all black and the next thing she knew she was on the floor. She couldn't lay down while sis called for ambulance so she got her a cushion to rest her head on the chair.

Mom is 89 and this sister, my husband and I have been concerned that some day she would fall going down the stairs to the basement. Fortunately she was in the basement when sis and I both think she blacked out.

She has compression fractures of the back, one of which appears to be an old one.

While the ambulance attendants were working with her she said "well I guess this is the start of the end". She said the same thing in the hospital ER. She has wanted to die for a long time. Not conducive to healing.

Sis popped out for an errand to her workplace and when she came back mom was sleeping. Apparently they gave her something for pain. She woke up and declared she was all alone no one had come in and done a thing.

In the evening hippie sister had called. She had left work and gone straight over. She said it wasn't as bad as she thought it would be and that mom had nothing for pain. Morphine has been ordered but the nurses said she wouldn't take it. She saw the doctor that was filling in for mom's and said today they will do an MRI.

I took the opportunity to tell hippie sister that it is time for this sibling rivalry to stop. That older sis wouldn't do anything to hurt mom and she shouldn't be put on the spot for a decision that was made at the time. I told her I didn't want to have to get a referee whistle and come home. This is the sister that got mom to change her Will and take older sister off as executer with brother. Now brother and his wife are. Now brother and his wife are going to step in like mom is already not capable of making any decisions.

Do you see what a mess is going to be when mom does die?

Edit: 9:10 a.m. Mom is in PA, I'm in TX. I just called the hospital to find out how she was this morning. Got sister in law on the phone and she couldn't have been more rude. Obvious she talked to hippie sister last night. So I let her know since they are taking over I expect them to keep me apprised.

I have what I wanted, dad's slides. So I'll just sit back and watch sister in law take everything she wants for her family. She and brother have no children. And I'll feel bad for older sis who they are dumping on.

Update: 11:30 a.m. Mom refused the carotid dopler, said it was in the Lord's hands now. Nurse had to talk her into it.