Wheelchairs and skinny aisle's

Last Friday, my brother Troy got his wisdom teeth out. He was very brave. He layed low all day, and ate soup and milkshakes. The fun part about having surgery is getting the chance to stop life for a while. Since I am a sweet sister, I felt the need to stop life with him. We layed around and watched movies together, and let dad take care of us. However, Saturday morning rolled around and Troy is ready to move. He is bored. He needs to get out. So I put Troy in the car and we go to the mall. At this point, he is still on pain meds, and a little light headed and not feeling well, so being the cautious sister I am, I make him get in a wheel chair. We strolled around the mall for a while, with me pushing him through the stores. Its amazing all the looks we got from people. People looking at Troy like "aww you poor thing". and then looking to me like "how devoted you are to this man". It was pretty funny. Because all the while, we knew he had only had his wisdom teeth out. No major paralization.

The only problem we faced was when we went into stores and had to get past something. They make these aisles so teensy these days. (actually, I think i picked and extra wide chair for Troy on accident. Not that he needed an extra wide one, he had room to spare). So anyways, I get clogged on everything. I knocked down so many things and kept on my way. haha. Troy was sorta embarrassed. We didnt last at the mall very long. It was so stinkin crowded. We were tired of having to say we were sorry for running into people with the wheels of the chair.

This is not the only time we have had a wheel chair fiasco at the mall. When Troy and I were in highschool, we went to the mall with our Mom. She was really sick at this time, going through Chemotherapy... but she was a good mom and wanted to hang out with us, so we all went to the mall. Troy decided to wheel her around in the wheel chair since she was so weak. Everything was going good, strollin the mall, mom was having a great time. I'm sure she was happy to be off the couch. Back then, the wheelchairs had this HUGE bar that stuck out from the top of them with like a red flag on them. I guess it made it easy for people to see. The whole time we are making fun of this huge pole sticking out of our moms chair.

For some reason, Troy gets the great idea to be funny and leave mom stranded in the middle of the aisle. He goes and hides, I am in the Gap shopping, and mom is sitting in her chair just laughing. She cant go anywhere. People are just walking by looking at her. If you knew my mom, you would know that it didnt take much to embarrass her. She just sat there and laughed. Troy eventually went and rescued her. Feeling good about his new funny joke.

That is a fun memory of my mom. Troy could get her to laugh so hard. She was sweet.

Thats my story.