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May. 9th, 2006 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puddingcatMum's op seems to have gone well. I've just spoken to her & she's feeling uncomfortable but not in pain, and thoroughly spoiled (PHI >>> NHS). She's still very glad they took the whole lot off, and is hoping Dad will stop fretting now.
She sin't quite sure what she'll be doing in hospital for the 5-7 days she's expected to stay there. Once the drains are out (prob tomorrow, IIRC) it'll just be a case of sitting around, exercising her left arm & shoulder, and recuperating over salmon sandwiches.
It's all sort of stressful, but the stress seems to be at a distance. I can't imagine feeling a huge sense of relief when it's all over; possibly because it won't really feel like that until she's reached the 5-year stage. Maybe it's just becasue I can't affect anything to do with it, and there are more up close & personal things to fret about atm, with the added self-imposed guilt that Mums should be the Most Important Thing on my list of worries.
Bah. Life will be much simpler when I'm a Grumpy Old Man.
(Doesn't my icon remind you of Hamster in the pink Micra? My version's cuter, though.)
She sin't quite sure what she'll be doing in hospital for the 5-7 days she's expected to stay there. Once the drains are out (prob tomorrow, IIRC) it'll just be a case of sitting around, exercising her left arm & shoulder, and recuperating over salmon sandwiches.
It's all sort of stressful, but the stress seems to be at a distance. I can't imagine feeling a huge sense of relief when it's all over; possibly because it won't really feel like that until she's reached the 5-year stage. Maybe it's just becasue I can't affect anything to do with it, and there are more up close & personal things to fret about atm, with the added self-imposed guilt that Mums should be the Most Important Thing on my list of worries.
Bah. Life will be much simpler when I'm a Grumpy Old Man.
(Doesn't my icon remind you of Hamster in the pink Micra? My version's cuter, though.)
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Date: 2006-05-09 10:17 am (UTC)Isn't family weird.
My mother can't cope with the notion that she isn't the most important thing in my life at all. I think it's a side-effect of having given up her own independence and identity; she let me take over her own life, so in her world I "owe" her my everlasting devotion.
To me it looks more like she made a duff decision about how to look after herself, really.