Friday, March 5, 2010

Me? Someone's Angel?

Today Kaden and I spent part of our morning with Dad. I had asked him earlier in the week what he was hungry for. He told me "Chicken noodle soup with lots of noodles." So, yesterday I cooked off the chicken and this morning I made the soup. I put the soup into three containers, one for the 'fridge and two for the freezer. While visiting with Dad his neighbor called. Martha lives next door with her son, and just recently came home from recovering from hip surgery. Her son is currently away, so Martha's sister is staying with her. Both women are in their 80's. Dot called to say her sister had fallen and could I come over to help get her up. They saw my van parked in Dad's driveway so they knew I was there. I rushed over to find Martha sitting up on the floor. Both women have a great sense of humor and are always joking, so I said, "You're not suppose to mop you kitchen floor with your butt!" They laughed! Martha is short, but stocky. They didn't think I should try to lift her. They wanted me to brace the chair while Martha tried to pull herself up. I could tell that wouldn't work, so I offered again just to lift her. She was heavy, but I managed to get her back up into her chair. It was then that I saw she was bleeding. She now had a new dark bruise on her left hand and was bleeding from the same spot. We cleaned her up and applied ice. (Dot's son-in-law is a PT and was going to stop in and check on Martha this afternoon.) Soon afterward I went back over to Dad's. A little while later Dot called again. They couldn't figure out how to get their Dish Network tv working. I know nothing about that sort of thing, but Dot asked if I would look at it anyway. On my way over there I thought, "Lord, you're going to have to help me. I don't know what I'm doing!" I just turned on the tv, read the instructions that came up, and took it from there. We weren't quite there yet with doing that, but after Dot mentioned someone had told her to "Press 03", I did that. That brought us into the normal tv stations, which is what they wanted. All I had to do after that was press the channel up button to find their station. Wah-lah! Fixed! They could now watch their gospel music show! Thanks for hearing my prayers, Lord and using me to do Thy work! Dot told me I was their Angel! I'm just glad I was at Dad's house at the right time when they needed someone to help!

1 comment:

Angie said...

WHat a great day for you. I love when I am able to help people like that, it makes you feel so good. How nice that they felt comfortable enough to call you for help, not once but twice.

ANd yes, you ARE an angel.

If you ever need help with Dish Network again, just call me, I will talk you through it.