all right... much better day yesterday.
The results of the colonoscopy were a severely irritated bowel, likely caused from the surgery. it sounds like they aren't even going to treat it, just let it heal on its own. i'm fine with a holistic self healing approach when possible. so, mom had a clear liquid lunch and a soft food dinner (and she snuck in a burger & a couple of fries and some cookies with that) and was doing much better last night. her energy, motivation and positive demeanor was back and that's such a blessing. it's also a foundation she's going to need as she reenters the real world as a non-smoker.
we expect she will get released now today to the transitional facility so i'm at work waiting for that phone call.
i did speak to her briefly on the phone this morning and i remembered that i'd been meaning to tell her about my dad's emotion during her surgery. that he'd broke down and cried when he called me and became choked up and tearful a few times while we were waiting. i think it's important that she know that, because as is SO typical in my family, we don't share emotion like that. we don't hug, and we rarely tell each other that we love them. she thanked me for telling her, and did even seem a bit surprised as i expected.
10 days until Hawaii.
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wow...your head must be spinning.
i can imagine the lack of emotion; our family was llike that too. the only touching that occured was when we were disciplined.
it's different now, at some point things changed...probably after my brother died.
it will be interesting to see how the dynamic of your family relations morphs through all this.
hope you're holding yourself together
that was an intuitive pickup. i'm not really surprised. now that things are settling a bit, i find i'm just really, really, tired. poor abby. exhaustion is not a good mom.
i'm going to continue to rest a bit.
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