Recovery Can Be a Long Road

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
Marianne Williamson

A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders just from having this surgery over and done with, but now we face the challenge of healing. Tuesday was a very very long day which began at 4am, arriving at the hospital at 5:15, surgery starting at 8:20, and lasting 3 hours. The hospital is very crowded so mom was stuck in the recovery room until they could find us a hospital room. Mom didn't have any complaints about her nurse but I did. I got annoyed that he wouldn't even let her speak to my dad and I wasn't allowed to stay back there long, but other people, with different nurses, got to stay longer. Mom had been fighting a migraine and spent the majority of yesterday asleep. This morning she was doing much better, went off the pain medicine, went for a few walks, including one very early one at 4am. Unfortunately this good feeling didn't last long. :/ I left to go back to the hotel to do laundry and grab some food. When I came back mom was feeling bad again. She was cold, but head was hot, her head was hurting again, and then she would get hot and want all the blankets off. I'm praying that tomorrow's test goes well so she can start having liquids to drink. We might get to go "home" by the end of the weekend, otherwise we are looking at Monday or later. I pray that the nurse gets here quick with more headache medicine. Hopefully I'll sleep a little tonight. I'm tired of being tired, but I want to make sure my mom is okay before I even attempt sleep tonight. There will be a lot of changes and adjustments to make in the upcoming months. We may have a new normal. My mom will also have to adjust to the change of looking and perhaps even feeling different. For me, as long as she is happy, healthy, and pain free, that's all that I ask for.