Mary Kate was to be home by 9 PM but they got stuck on Hy 65 in the snow. After spending several hours of going nowhere, they got off the interstate at Cullman. She called Trudy and Trudy had a friend that Mary Kate called and told her how to get to Hy 31 which led on to Athens. It took her and Nate 10 hours to drive a 4 hour trip. It's 12:30 PM and she'll still crashed out downstairs. It took a lot of emotional drain out of her.
Monday I get my staples out, all 157 of them. I'm anxious to see if I hurt anything when I fell and what the future holds for my healing. Life's not too bad when the pain pill is working but I still need it every four hours.
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About Me
- Granny's Blog
- I'm a graduate of the University of Alabama,class of '66. I majored in music, piano and organ. I taught private piano lessons in Tuscaloosa for a year and then got a teaching job in Key West, FL. There I met my husband, Frank and four months later we were married. Have lived in Athens, AL since 1976. My children grew up in Athens. My husband is bedridden now so I add the title of care taker to the title of homemaker. I never wanted to work outside the home. I enjoyed gardening until I got breast cancer in 2002. I'm not able to do much garden work now, and I miss it. I enjoy going to the Wellness Ctr. to exercise. I enjoy making greeting cards and usually make a card or two each day. I love getting together with my daughters, Trudy and Mary Kate and my grandchildren. My son, Frank, lives in Knoxville,TN, so I don't see him often. He has 4 children. I enjoy being a grandmother.
As of 10/7/08
1 comment:
Wow! You have 157 staples?! sounds painful! :)
(you suggested i journal our experience so here it is.... :))
That was a nightmarish trip but really not as bad as some fellow motorist had. We were very lucky to be stuck with a full tank of gas... and when we realized the traffic wasn't going anywhere we were right by exit 308....so we were able to get off the exit and try to find shelter. The only hotel was full but Red Cross was setting up a shelter at the Cullman Civic Center. Trying to find that building was pretty hard but luckily we didn't need it. Maureen's son-in-law lives off exit 318 and was able to give me directions to Hwy 31 which leads ultimately into Athens but also got me back to the interstate!
I looked at the news stories the next day and the back up was for 10 miles and many cars had stalled on the interstate. The problem was patches of ice on the interstate between exits 308 and 315. The problem started at 2pm and never got better which led to a complete shutdown later than evening. We got into the traffic around 6pm and moved about 2-3 miles in 2 hours and then stood still for the next hour before we got off at the CUllman exit around 9(that's when we learned the road was closed). We got to Granny's at 1am...only 6 hours off our schedule.
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