Dad fell this morning

not bad fall, says he stood up and just fell over. He fell toward the wall, bumped his head and has a pain in the right rib where he tried to stop himself and strained that side. I managed to get him standing (that was a challenge and puts me in mind to weight lift!) and his morning pills in him and now he's back in bed.
Mom is, of course, freaking out. She's now "taking a nap" with him - although laying there and still quietly freaking out...

It is a challenge to choose which parent to focus on when we're in a crisis. Mom is sure she can be helpful (and desperately wants to and I don't blame her) and I need her out of the way in order to deal with dad physically. Then all the attention has to go to mom to calm her down and explanations are so often unhelpful as her cognition is so limited...

What a houseful of frail aging issues I have!