After five days at home, Anna Marie and I hit the road at 0900 this morning. We're heading to Texas to be with Mom while she recuperates in the rehab center.
We had a nice, quiet Thanksgiving with Shelley, Sandi, Matt and all the kids at Sandi's home. Anna Marie managed a Black Friday outing with Sandi and Shelley. They left the house at 0300 to get to the stores when they opened at 0400! apparently they got some good bargains.
We enjoyed leftovers at Sandi's yesterday, spent the night and left for Texas after breakfast. Traffic wasn't to bad until we reached interstate 81. We did about 100 miles in stop and go traffic before throwing in the towel. The critical factor in our decision to stop at 1800 hours was a reported accident about five miles in front of us. Traffic was grinding to a standstill.
Along the way, we received a call from my sister, Marjorie, telling us that Mom had just been sent to the hospital. She is now suffering from congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
We hope to put in a long day tomorrow so we can get to Texas ASAP, so we can help Mom and kep her spirit up. But we still have about 1300 miles and 17 hours to go. I used to be able to drive that far only stopping for gas and food, but I can't do that anymore.
With luck, we hope to get to Houston by mid day on Tuesday.
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