mom takes a tumble

been meaning to post this for awhile now...
my mom took a bad fall late in the evening on march 31st. she stumbled over a pillow that had fallen on the floor in the doorway between her bedroom and master bathroom. it was dark and they have no night light in the bedroom or bathroom so she didn't see it. anyway she tripped over it, fell down hard hitting her head on the cats water dish. it knocked her unconcious. my step-dad was in the next room and heard what he thought was the cats knocking stuff over. he went to investigate and found my mom out cold, a pool of blood around her head. unfortunately i had left my cell phone in the other room on charge and we don't have a house line so he couldn't get ahold of me. eventually he was able to raise my brother in law, David and he came up and called 911. we had an ambulance and the fire truck here. mom of course refused to go to the hospital that night to get stitches.
i get up the next morning, check my phone and see i have a voicemail from my stepdad. i check it and see it came at 12:01 am april 1st. all i hear is "someone help me please!" it doesn't really sound like his voice and i figure he is playing an april fool's joke on me. so i text him saying ha ha very funny pop-he texts back-wha? i tell him i got his voice mail very funny haha-he says that wasn't a joke, your mom fell and busted her head open last night-
at this point i'm still thinking he is joking so i said something about how it didn't sound like him and he says well i was in a panic.
so i head over there thinking if he is joking i'm gonna punch him in the stomach!
he answers the door and is on his phone so i just shoot him a look and walk into the computer room and there sits my mom with a huge wad of gauze tapped to her head and dried blood in her hair!
i completely lost it, started crying, went to my knee's, jeez it was just this gut reaction i couldn't control, you know i just felt like i should have been there! my poor mom is trying to comfort me at this point which is ridiculous-anyway i get control of myself and settle down and talk to her about what happened. stay for half an hour or so, apologizing the whole time to both of them.
went home and moved my cell phone charger into my bedroom-that's not happening again!
i went over there that evening to help mom change her bandage, it was about 9pm i think-anyway the cut is all the way to the bone and about 2 inches long-well it won't stop bleeding so i convince her we need to go to the emergency room and get stitches. she just says ok and off we go-my stepdad just looks at me like "really?!" cuz he could NOT convince her to go the night before...anyway that emergency room visit took 4 hours! they did a CAT scan tho and said she did have a concussion. she got 9 stitches. gonna have a nice scar above her eye...
thank goodness she is ok, she did bruise up one knee pretty badly too.