They put a plate along her right wrist, where the bone had been crushed, and everything seemed to go well. The amount of nerve endings in that area has made this more painful than her hip surgeries, and the fact that it is her right hand is a frustration for her, but the cast should be off in three weeks and she should be able to unwrap her own Christmas presents. I'll be home next week for the first time since May. I've scheduled an interview - need to m

It clocks in at about 35 minutes. From the looks of things, it will boil down to 26-28 pretty easily. There are parts I'm happy with and parts I'm struggling with, but on the whole it is coming together nicely. Having the fist cut com0pleted has helped tremendously with building momentum: I'm hoping these next few months will be very productive. I'll post a section of the film once I've got some sound prepared.

My sister Stefanie called me last night to tell me that mom had fallen again while making dinner, breaking her right wrist. Apparently her hip and legs are fine, but is was another frustrating setback for her - she was passionately involved in planting a new vegetable garden, had been working part-time as a literacy coach, and had regained much of her confidence. I was, ironically, editing the sequence that chronicled her last fall, and sketching out a voiceover that recounted the realizations I had then. This new information was a kind of test, in that I had a fresh emotional response to compare with my claims about my response to the previous fall. Not sure if that makes sense. I wasn't blindsided by this news, and I wasn't blindsided by the rush of emotions that I experienced (immediately wondering if she'd been drinking, for example). I like to think I had some of the calm that my parents approach these matters with, and that was encouraging.