@Cyber Liberty@Ghost Bear@Freya @CatherineofAragon @mystery-akI told about our groomer, Karen, who broke both her left arm bones and dislocated her wrist in a fall. She had to wait for two weeks until her son could borrow money for the surgery. Bob and I gave her some money just for her for what she needed. One thing she got was a new housecoat - she said her dog chewed up the other one.
The surgery was yesterday. The surgeon said he had never seen an arm that bad from a fall and didn't know why her wrist wasn't broken, just pulled out of place. Because it was so bad, it took FOUR hours to reconstruct her arm. There is a metal plate and EIGHT SCREWS IN HER BONES.
He did a nerve block to numb the arm. He gave her hydrocodone pills and said she had to take them, that when the nerve block went away, she was going to be in bad pain and told her she could not go to work for a week.
Karen is stubborn, in her 50s, doesn't like to take pills, but she promised the doc and me she would do what the doc said and take them. When I talked to her, the nerve block was still working.
She doesn't know how long it will take to be able to use the arm but goes back to the doc on Dec. 1. So, right now she is stuck in the house but at least she has a new housecoat to wear. Keep Karen in your prayers; she is a lover of animals and treats Prissy like her own. She is her own employer so she won't make any money until she can go back to work at the Vet's office.