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Topic: Hospitalized and Missing Super 8!
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 28, 2014 03:29 PM
I'll never forget our experience last winter. My wife was hospitalized three weeks post surgery, did a month in-patient rehab and then another 8 weeks out-patient rehab on disability from work.
Those were bastardly days: some days the morphine just didn't cut it and there was nothing anybody could do. There was a long period of time when she was inarguably worse off than before the procedure (just as her surgeon predicted). For myself I was keeping a house, a job and a son going at the same time I visited at the hospital as often as I could. I literally started to wake up tired and sometimes I was a little afraid to drive my car because I knew I wasn't as alert as I'd like to be.
I learned about 80 ways to cook pasta so there would always be something on the table! I am ready to forget about 65 of them...
This is not whining, by the way, just prologue...
What kept all of us, and our friends and family going through all of this is the idea we were working towards better days to come. Those days are here: slow in coming, but still here.
I joked about coming to CineSea before, but that's a good example. My wife wanted me to go, but was afraid to spend a weekend alone, so we agreed we'd all come down. By the time the weekend came she decided she was OK at the house, but we all needed a break so she still came with us.
This weekend we took the camper out East and overnighted for the first time since her operation: another step back to normal.
You, Brian are at the start of this journey. I can tell you it will not be an easy one, but you need to have faith it will get better. Whatever support systems you have you will need now, they will get you through a lot more than you can alone.
Godspeed!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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