So Ya Think Ya Know Everthing?

Whew! What a day! I am working at my home job taking calls and about an hour out from quitting time when my mother calls my name. I think maybe she just wants me to fix somthing on the ipad for her so I take a couple more calls when she calls out again with emphasis. She says she is calling the rescue squad to come to the house. Easy going daughter goes into solution mode immediately. Call rescue squad, cancel hours for next day's work, assist in answering rescue squad's questions, call the appropriate family and church numbers. Arrange for someone to bring hubby supper and cat
food for the felines, get in the car and head for the hospital.

Mom was hurting all over and shaking like a leaf in a swirling blast of autumn air and nauseated.
She is southern to the core. She would never call the rescue squad under her own power and certainly would not allow them to pick her up with her nightgown and slippers on...a short nightgown at that with all her Christmas (what my granny use to call "it") showing at one time or the other. This is what told me, more than an other thing, that my mother was suffering.

I had noticed a slow decline in her energy level and she complained of having no energy, no motivation, no desire to do what she knew she had done until recently. This "something is wrong" thing nagged my brain to the point that I called my sister and voiced my concerns. We put it up to old age and lack of exercise. Mom was staying home more and more. She never felt well enough to keep up with her yoga, exercising and church attendance. She was peevish, lacking in motivation and miserable. So it came as no surprise to me that something was physically wrong with her. I was grateful. I thought she was slowly going crazy. I was not prepared for the answer to her numerous symptoms.

Mother tested well on everything. Still there was the fact that she was changing in a number of ways and that she was in pain. Real pain. I spoke with the doctor. I mentioned her constant use of her ipad. Bingo!! My mother suffers from extreme ipad use. The muscles in her neck, shoulders, back and even in her legs have, over a period of time, all become compromised thru basic repetitive motion while using the ipad. Head bent over, shoulders pulled forward and out to hold the ipad and use it. Lack of motivation, what appeared as depression, no energy, all of it part of her hours and hours on the ipad.

Well, ya coulda knocked me over with a feather! 85 years old, sitting in her easy chair plays games and reads facebook until her body screamed, "ENOUGH!!"  Who knew? Not in a million years did I see that coming. I was relieved. Mom is sore and hurting but not dying with heart fibrillations.

So I brought her home, called my sister who is the bad cop to my good cop relationship with mom. I left mom's to go home for awhile. My sister told me to hand mom the phone and proceeded to take her to school because , I had whispered to her on the phone,that our mother was already playing on her ipad. I dropped that bomb on the bad cop and fled mom's house. Like I said, my sister plays a gread bad cop. I drop the ball in front of her and she kicks it through the goal.

Never believe a day is going to follow the path you laid out for yourself. It ain't gonna happen. Flow with the day. If it bears garbage and vermins, flow with it. If it bears the boredom and day after day monotony of plans set in stone years ago, flow with it. If it fills you with joy and happiness flow with it.

Thus my title: So Ya Think Ya Know Everything? I'm laughing. Hard. Go on with your bad self. Let me watch for a change. I thought I had seen everything. HA!! My 85 year old mother is an IPAD junky and now she has the creds to show it!

Word to Ya Mama!