It is great to have children that come to your rescue. Our daughter, Kathy, came to help and our son and daughter-in-law opened their home with no advance notice so that Kathy and I could get a good night's sleep after bringing Lou to the hospital on an emergency basis Sunday. We contacted Dr. Bechtel, who was working the weekend shift for Dr. Siadati and he advised Lou to come on in. He arranged for her to go directly to room 592 of Harris Methodist hospital where she was X-rayed and CT scanned. He looked at them and diagnosed a compression fracture of T-11 vertebra and a possible old crack of L-3. Then about 7 p.m. they took her for an MRI. We presume that Dr. Siadati will have enough information to inject plastic to stabilize her spine. The good news is that no fragments have entered the spinal canal to cause problems there.

Kathy and I left the TV showing the Mavericks game. Lou said she wanted to see it and then get some rest. We waited until almost 9 p.m. but decided if she needed sedation for the MRI that it would be a while before she got back. We are going in early this morning, hopefully to see Dr. Siadati to determine what the next step is.

I will try to keep everyone posted. I am using my laptop on son Mark's high speed connection.