RECOVERY IS HARD!!!

Having surgery is no fun and recovery is even less fun. I had forgotten all the things I really didn't like about recovering from surgery. I feel so helpless and useless. I can't sleep very good at night because I can sleep in only one position---that gets old really fast. There is just the whole process of healing that is painful and uncomfortable. But I know that I have to experience these things so that I can look forward to the days when I can bend and move the way I used to. And then there are the good things about recovery, too. It has been such a blessing to have Michael home with me. He has taken such good care of me and the girls. It was so hard to have him leave me to go back to work today. He has been such a bright spot through this whole ordeal---I couldn't have done it without him. Kae Lee and Brynna have been so good, also. They have had to do more than their usual share of things but they have done it without complaint. People have been so kind to bring us food and offer rides to therapy. So I guess you have to take the good with the bad during these difficult times. I will get through all of this and I will hopefully be better and stronger than before---in many ways.