A Downed Tree And An ER Visit

Hello friends and happy Tuesday. I’m sorry for the misleading tittle, which is a big no no in blog world. Thankfully the tree had nothing to do with the ER visit but I will get to that in a minute.

We have a tree in the side of the yard. It’s not a huge tree, well it looks bigger when you are standing next to it with a chain saw, but it’s big enough. My husband and I had discussed cutting the tree ourselves. The tree started rubbing against the side of the house. Some of it even touched the gutters and that is three stories above the ground level. So it was starting to cause a problem. We have had flying squirrel issues before and those little critters just love finding a way to get into the attic. A tree that close to the house is just an invitation for them. And lying in my bed at night and hearing those little things scurrying around in the attic is not what you want to hear just before going to sleep. We were also worried that if we didn’t cut the tree just right that a part of it would land on our deck. We kept thinking it was a job that we shouldn’t handle or maybe we could. We couldn’t decide.

Several weeks ago we called a man who had cut some trees for us in the past. He came to check out the job and said it was a rather small job for him. And he could cut it and not have it fall on the deck. He quoted us a very reasonable price. He told us he would get to it in two weeks. I told my husband we were probably never going to see him again. What he quoted us was not a lot of money and probably not really worth his time. Sure enough that has been about five or six weeks ago. Last week we finally decided we could do it we could cut the tree. We are not always smart when it comes to things like this.

So on Saturday morning Mark got his chain saw and I got mine, remember that little one I got for Christmas?, and we decided to tackle this tree ourselves.

We started before 8:00 AM hoping to beat the heat. No luck on the humidity because it was already high. Mark did several notches in the tree and then the big cutting with his saw and the tree fell. TIMBER!!!! The top of the tree was rather skinny and spindly and luckily that is what fell across part of the deck. We had moved all the deck furniture out of the way. The rest of the tree fell across the backyard. Whew!!! That was a bit scary. It then took us another two hours to cut and clean up the tree. I used my smaller saw for cutting branches and making the limbs easier to haul away. We dragged limb after limb into the woods, and cut up what we could. By 10:30 we were finished with only a couple of casualties. I had a big scrape across my arm from one of the branches. Nothing too bad. And I lost my glasses. I had taken my glasses off and hung them on the front of my shirt, why did I do that?, and I must have snagged them with one of the branches when it went into the woods. I looked around a little bit to try and find them but there were just too many branches to deal with. Luckily I have several pairs. Someday I may see a squirrel or rabbit or a deer wearing my glasses. HA!!!!

I will say we were rather proud of ourselves and strutted around most of Saturday patting each other on the back. Now for the ER visit.

Early Sunday morning at 1:00 AM I got a call from the assisted living village where my mother in law lives. She had fallen and split the back of her head open. It was bad. They had called an ambulance. Luckily a woman that I know was spending the night in the room next to my mother in law. Her dad is in heart failure and having really rough nights and she has been staying at the village with him. She heard my little mother in law yelling for help and when she got to her room she was covered in blood. Head wounds always look worse than they are but my mother in law is also on blood thinners so that makes it doubly scary. She lost a lot of blood.

Hubs and I raced to the hospital, it’s about a 30 minute drive for us, and she had already been taken back to a room. Once we were able to see her she had a huge bandage wrapped around her head and chin and she had twelve staples around the back of her head. She was very confused and didn’t remember a thing about what had happened. They did a CT scan and luckily there were no broken bones or anything. After a few hours the ER doctor decided to keep her in the hospital a day or two so they could watch her. We let her sleep and went home to get sleep as well. She was able to return to the village yesterday. I told her to tell everyone at breakfast that she was bandaged because she had been in a bar fight. She thought this was quite funny. She is almost 90 years old and pretty darned tough.

That was my weekend how was yours?

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Love your day your way!!!