I hope that your mom comes through the surgery well, and that the pain is finally alleviated for her.
I'm sorry to hear about all of the struggles you've been through recently. Death is so difficult to bear, no matter how old the person is, when you love the one who's going. I firmly believe that they go to a better place, but that doesn't stop the pain of being left behind.
I hope your health improves and stays good. Being ill makes everything else harder.
On a different note, one of my favorite memories was when I used to sing with the Chancel Choir at my high school and we performed a Bach cantata for Easter Mass. It was difficult and took us nearly three months to learn it, but I will never forget the way the music and the German words felt, or how the rafters in the church rang after the final "allelujia".
I wish many Easter blessings to you and your family.
I can sympathesize with the joint replacement. My mom had her right knee replaced last summer and the left this spring. It's been a struggle. She's been at the nursing home for rehab but will finally be coming home Saturday and will be getting home rehab then.
We would have liked to have her home right after the surgery too, but the practical difficulties prevented it. If she can't get up to go to the bathroom on her own, how can that be managed? Home health care isn't there 24/7 so until she was well enough to do that and could walk resonably well w/o assistance, the nursing home was a dreaded but necessary temporaly situation.
I hope you mom has tremendous luck with the replacement. I'm told hips are easier than knees so that's in her favor.
I hope your health and hers improves and that this wonderful weather will resume after the rain passes so we can all enjoy. Take care. I'll be thinking of you. ;)
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I'm sorry to hear about all of the struggles you've been through recently. Death is so difficult to bear, no matter how old the person is, when you love the one who's going. I firmly believe that they go to a better place, but that doesn't stop the pain of being left behind.
I hope your health improves and stays good. Being ill makes everything else harder.
On a different note, one of my favorite memories was when I used to sing with the Chancel Choir at my high school and we performed a Bach cantata for Easter Mass. It was difficult and took us nearly three months to learn it, but I will never forget the way the music and the German words felt, or how the rafters in the church rang after the final "allelujia".
I wish many Easter blessings to you and your family.
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We would have liked to have her home right after the surgery too, but the practical difficulties prevented it. If she can't get up to go to the bathroom on her own, how can that be managed? Home health care isn't there 24/7 so until she was well enough to do that and could walk resonably well w/o assistance, the nursing home was a dreaded but necessary temporaly situation.
I hope you mom has tremendous luck with the replacement. I'm told hips are easier than knees so that's in her favor.
I hope your health and hers improves and that this wonderful weather will resume after the rain passes so we can all enjoy. Take care. I'll be thinking of you. ;)
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