Surgery recovery is hard. The incision hurts. Nurses poke with needles at all hours of night. Sleep is non-existent. Machines beep. And you have to drag an IV pole everywhere with you for days at a time.
What no one tells you is how boring it can be too. You can only watch bad daytime tv for so long. Magazines get so unexciting. Yes, even the crappy gossip mags arent entertaining anymore.
Today we spent time napping and reading and did some Christmas shopping research online for Grace.
And tomorrow, we will probably do the same thing.
We are both really looking forward to going home to our own bed, our own tv selections, and most of all, our little girl.
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Dear Ma'am, I just found your blog and read the last 6 weeks or so. Like you, I do not have Marfan's but my wife's niece, Precy, a Filipina, does. We are supporting her, both in dealing with Marfan's and her education. About 18 months ago she had her mytral and aortic valves replaced with mechanical ones and also had the aortic root "fixed." She "ticks" also! As a word of encouragement to you, Precy is doing fine! She takes blood thinner and has to avoid Vitamin K (Anything green, including green tea), but has resumed her full-time college studies. I wish you and your family well, and I hope Precy herself contacts you. You can read more about Precy on her blog http://precypinoy.blogspot.com/ God Bless! Joe Smart
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