Anyway, I have no idea what I said and what I didn't earlier, so here's the story: Mom went to the dr. for a scheduled check. While there, she mentioned a pain in her chest she'd started last night. They x-rayed and diagnosed pneumonia, but couldn't tell if there might be a blood clot (in her lung, not in her legs). So, the dr. sent her to the hospital for a lung test.........it's some sort of thing where she had to breathe in this stuff, then hold her arms up so they could go all around, and be still, and she said her arms got tired, so I guess it was not a lying down test............anyway, after it was over, the hospital told her they'd call her dr. with the results. So she went home. Not long after she got home, the dr. called and said the results could be low, med or high (risk of clot, I guess?). Mom's was medium. and ususally with that result they do another test to be sure. Mom had left so they couldn't do the test. Dr. prescribed aspirin tonight, blood thinner script to be picked up tomorrow.
That's when mom called me all in a panic. And then I panicked in turn.
After I had to get off the phone to take care of Lucas, Dad told mom to call the dr. back and ask more questions. When the dr. called mom back and told her there was no danger, she also told mom that she knew telling her not to worry wouldn't help, as she knew mom was a worrier (the tree to my apple I guess), she told her that she had a lot wrong with her as it was a bad wreck, but everything is mendable and she will be fine. She told her she heard my message about the depression, and she feels right now she's reacting normally to a really bad wreck, bad injury, loss of mobility, change of lifestyle and so on, but if she doesn't come to accept it soon then they can think about something to help her "over the hump". All in all, great news.
Dh tried to tell me when he got home that mom always makes it sound so bad as she is so scared, and I needed to just wait and calm down. I was ready to jump in the car and go...............what I would do when I got there, I don't know.
Anyway, thanks for being my shoulders AGAIN and remind me of this next time I flip out about something mom says...............