My Aunt E

First let me say, I have had the most problems with today's entry.  Something happened and I had a "+" between every word.  So, I start all over again.

Found out today about the "smartest states" listing.  My state made it to number 21 http://www.governmentguide.com/research_and_education/smartstate.adp (ok, it would have been higher but I can't get the stupid link thingy to work the way I want it to, help!)  Should I feel good that NC scored so well?  Or maybe I should feel bad that we didn't do all that well.  How should you feel about these things?  And WVA you go!!!  People are always making fun of you guys, and look you did better than 21 states!!

Today started out lousy.  My mom couldn't get her sister on the phone so we go over to check on her.  Aunt E had fell and couldn't get up.  Got her up and called that ambulance just to be safe (no broken bones).  They talked her into going to the hospital.  I could have jumped for joy.  Don't get me wrong.  My aunt has no business living alone, and she is to stubborn to let someone come in and help her.  Her house is so dirty you wouldn't believe.  Mom talked to Aunt E's doctor about this before and he said there was nothing we could do without Aunt E's ok.  That is until something happened.  I thought this would be the something, and we could some sort of help.  But I was wrong, they checked her out at the ER and discharged her.  Before she was discharged dad and I went to clean her house.  We didn't get much done really, but I feel some better.  I mean the place was (still is) so incredibly dirty.  I had to clean the toilet before I would use it.  That's pretty bad.  Hey, don't go judging us, you can't just barge in someone's house and say  we are here to clean get out of our way.  We had to try to do it when she wasn't there. The most she has agreed to is that mom will call her at a certain time in the mornings and she calls mom at a certain time in the evenings.  A missed or unanswered calls means that mom will come check up on her.  This is the 2nd time we had to go over, and just like this time it was because of a fall.