4/14/26

 My Mom had surgery on her eye today. I went along to help. 

When we arrived at the hospital, I hopped out of the car to get a wheelchair for her. It was pouring rain. The first wheel chair I grabbed looked like someonepeed their pants in it. Nope! I went to the next one and it was dry. Mom quickly got into the wheelchair and we got out of the rain while Gene parked the car.

I asked Mom if she wanted to do wheelies, but she did NOT want to do that. Ha!

We went to the surgical center and got her all checked in. We waited and waited and they finally too I he in the back. I stayed in the waiting room out of the way, quietly working. The other people in the waiting room were pretty respectful. No one was obnoxious!

Two plus hours later and they finally took her back to have surgery. She did great!

When we went to see her afterward she was still groggy. The nurse gave her a choice to make “Do you want to get dressed here or in the bathroom?”  Mom replied “I don’t want to think right now!” . It was brilliant! I am going to start using this as my standard answer to all questions.

As the minutes ticked by, she became more and more with it. We packed her up in the chair. We left the hospital around 4:00 pm.

They dropped me off and continue their short journey down the road to their house. Mom was planning on laying flat for a the rest of the day.

I finished working and worked on organizing the camper a little bit. Baby steps.

I did take a walk around our yard to admire the flowers. They are colorful and pretty right now!