Many, many purrs and ouchies of understanding for SIL's kneecap injury.
Many, many soothing purrs for Mother to "relax" a bit.
Charleen
Mr. Pumpkin
Aggie Marble
Victor Velcro

Sounds kind of like fate! SIL will *want* to get better ASAP! Purrs for a
very good surgery.

oh dear, much purrs and prayers going your family's way, MMJ. Hope Ping and
the others give you much needed time off to attend to family matters.
Jazz & his mama

Purrs on the way and little birdie chirps are always thrown in as a "bonus".
This sounds very painful; I hope everything for your SIL works out just
fine.  I also hope your mom chills a little :)

Jill

Just a suggestion.  Tell the Drill Sergeant to cancel her trip and let SIL
recover in peace.  I've had knee surgery and it is no joke.    The kids
will probably do OK when needed.   Purrs for those who suffer.   MLB

We'll purr for your SIL's knee and surgery and for the visit from her MIL.

Purrs for your SIL; sounds very painful -- (please let us know how she
does.)
Christine

[snip SIL knee problems]

Youch!  Purrs definitely incoming.  It's amazing how vulnerable our
knees are.

Eeewwwwww *shudder* my knees fell all icky just thinking about that.
Healing purrs on the way for your SIL and purrs for surviving Mom's
visit for the rest of the family ;)

Healing purrs on the way!  Please let us know how she fares.

Hugs,

CatNipped

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Oh dear!  That doesn't sound like any fun at all.  Was it just a slip,
or was there an unsafe condition that caused it, like water on a
slippery floor?  Purrs for her knee.
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Let's hope this gives your mom a chance to impress on the two
teenagers that life can be serious and that they'll have to step up
and help out their mother.
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Thank goodness for that.

Regards and Purrs,
O J

Purrs on the way for all concerned.
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

Purrs for your sister in law.

That sounds really painful!
Lots of purrs and best wishes for the surgery to be a success and for your
SIL to recover completely and soon,

<snip>> My brother called me yesterday, seems his wife (my SIL) fell at work
and

<snip>

Finally talked to my Bro yesterday, and here's how SIL fell:

She works for a company that does dog-food "experiments" (not gross or
injuring the animals, the adopt older dogs from shelters, and divide them
into groups, group A gets certain food, group B gets different, and so
forth - they watch the dogs to see the effects of the food, and if the
"senior formula" is actually better for the dogs than regular, etc., etc.,).
SIL helps to take care of the dogs, shuttle walks them, & whatever they
need, including taking them from the kennel building to the vet buiding for
their weekly 'checkups' (bood tests, weighing & general health).

This happened between buildings, while taking the dog back to the kennels,
and aparently letting it have a bit of doggy fun along the way.  Rain had
washed the mulch away from an area and the 'landscaping fabric' (black
almost plastic stuff that landscapers lay down in the area to be mulched,
that helps prevent weeds from growing in that area).  The *dog* tripped over
the exposed frabic, but having 4 legs instead of just 2, he merely stumbled.
SIL thought to herself, "I should watch that area & be careful, and let
someone know to have it fixed".  About 5 seconds after that thought went
through her head she was distracted by the antics of the dog she was
walking.  Next thing she knows, to coin a phrase, she's fallen and she can't
get up!  She had aparently tripped over the fabric in the exact same place
that the dog had tripped.  She lay there for a few minutes, until a
co-worker went between buildings, and when she saw the co-worker, she
"yelled her bloody head off" (my Bro's words).

She's home now, and aparently has not had the ACL surgery yet, and Bro is
saying that will be when the insurance thing & doctors get coordinated - he
said he's making lots of phone calls to try and get the ball rolling.  The
sooner she has ACL surgery, the sooner Bro can quit playing nursemaid ;)

Mom did say she will do the housecleaning, laundry, maybe cook a meal &
stuff like that, and will go with whoever wants to go grocery, but the other
stuff is up to my Bro & his kids.  She is *not* playing gofur.  If my SIL
has a bell to ring if she needs anything, Mom says that bell will be thron
out the window the first time she uses it while Mom's there LOL.   I more of
imagined
my SIL having to have a surgery to have the bell removed from her nether
regions ;)

Purrs for your SIL to heal fast. Purrs for family harmony.
Suz&Spicey