It's been a week since the surgery and quite a bit has taken place. Healing has begun. The surgery itself was a smashing success. The surgeon is confident that he got all of the cancerous cells. So much so that we are waiting 6 weeks to start treatments rather than 2. Her motion in her arm is still a little tender, but doing the exercises everyday is helping. Energy levels are picking up everyday as well. The emotions around here range from everything is beautiful to get out of my face. Which is somewhat a return to normalcy. We are both learning to deal with each other in a serious crisis. We learn something every time there is a crisis, so this one should be no different. I get up whenever she calls and help her through the night. I do my best to wait on her when she allows. It wears me out, and I am really tired. But it's the least I can do. I know she is dealing physically and emotionally with more uncomfortable things than I, and it only seems right that I should deal with some of it too. I want her to know that she is not alone. I can't speak completely for Mawg and how she feels, but her spirits are high and her fight has not slowed down.
Her physical recovery is moving along wonderfully too. The drainage is less and less on a daily basis. The pain subsides from time to time. The wounds are looking great, minimal swelling is taking place. It is all doing a lot better than I had hoped or expected.
We are going to try and start doing a better job of identifying some of the emotional toll this is taking on us and the ways we are dealing with it. Whether good or bad, because I can tell you right now. We are not handling every situation correctly. We are trying, but sometimes it all gets the best of us.
As always thanks so much for the prayers and well wishes, and I wish peace and love to all of you.
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