The Accident

Saturday afternoon Mom (Susan) was doing the New Orleans Urban Adventure Race when she got her tire wheel stuck in a trolley track and flew off. She suffered a concussion and was brought to the Emergency Room at LSU Interim Hospital. They performed a CT scan that showed a fractured skull, facial fractures, and a fractured elbow.
When Dad (Jerry) and I (Kristen) got there a few hours later around 4 or 5 she was still in the ER and was restless and not very alert of her surroundings.
Later that evening, she was transferred to Trauma Intensive Care Unit (which was upstairs) and has been there since.
On Sunday morning when mom woke up, the nurse said she was asking where her family was. Once we got there we talked with her and she wasn't sure where she was or why she was there. We told her about the race and the accident and some of her memory started to come back about doing the race. The right side of her face was slightly swollen and she was having trouble hearing out of her right ear.
Sunday afternoon Sean, Aunt Jeanne and Uncle Mickey came up to New Orleans to visit mom in the hospital. I left with them yesterday afternoon to head back to Baton Rouge and pick up mom's car and belongings from her teammates house.
Last night dad talked to the ENT Doctor who said that the swelling on her face will go down and that she should be able to hear again after the brain stops swelling and the fluid drains out. Dad also talked to the Head Nurse who said that it is possible that Mom may be able to be transferred back to Baton Rouge and stay in recovery over here.