Mom-update.

Mom is fine. It was not a blood clot. *takes a deep breath* Phew... Apparently she has a bad infection in her lower leg though, so... she is on antibiotics now. My brother is the best though. Seriously. He is four years younger then me, but as I told him yesterday, he should have been born before me. We talked a lot, me and my brother. It felt good. I have always felt guilty for moving so far away from the countryside city I grew up in. Where mom lives at the outskirts of. My brother lives much closer. It takes him 10-15min to drive to mom. It takes 2hours for me. I also always feel guilty for not being there and helping mom with things that she needs help with. My brother very lovingly and very verbally hit me very hard over the head telling me what an idiot I am for thinking that. Tough love. We grew up on it, and we are much the same. :-) He is the best.

Anyway. Since Thursday my moms leg had been acting strange and was very painful for her. Sure her knees are bad (thanx to her weight), but this felt different. Strange. Itchy and painful, so her sister (my aunt) told her to go to the Docs. Sure, mom said. But not until Monday. Maybe it will go away. (So typical of her.) So yesterday, Monday, she went to see the Doc at the tiny district health care centre in the countryside city close to were she lives. He suspected a blood clot and told her she needed to go to the Emergency at the hospital in the the next town (closest hospital). She called my brother and tried calling me (I think I was driving at the time, hence I didn't answer the phone). And off she went to the hospital, 30mins drive away. There she had to wait a couple of hours... well a lot of hours, actually, since it wasn't lethal, she could breath and all, so... while waiting for the Doc, the nurses took all kinds of tests on her, so when the Doc finally got to her (at 1am), he had all the test-results. And it was a infection in her leg. A bad one, but far from lethal. Less dangerous then a blood clot. After some checking on mom, she got a prescription for some strong antibiotics that she is eating now.

So, talked to her today, and she is doing perfectly fine. Just highly annoyed with her leg. And she apologized for worrying me and my brother. *face-palm* That is so my mom. It is a part of the job-description as a daughter or son to worry, you know, mom? *shakes head*

Anyway. My brothers and mine collusion to work on getting mom to lose weight is still in full swing. She NEEDS to lose weight one way or another. I have no idea how we'll talk her into it and support her, but hell... We'll try. We'll try...