My dad had a hip replacement this morning. it was fine. My sister and mom are apparently shocked.
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My dad and especially my mom talked about it and went on about it for the last year, as if he was getting a brain transplant. My mom was convinced he was going to die and therefore she was going to die and she stopped eating and had to be taken to the hospital several times insisting she was about to die. there was never anything wrong with her.
She was also super duper anxious about staying at my sister's place while my dad is in the hospital. we discussed it many times over the last year, how she is going to handle it, because she freaks out if she is not at home with my dad making every decision for her. They were way more worried about my mom staying with my sister than they were about my dad's actual surgery, because, you know, my dad's surgery is really all about her. I figured, the way they were carrying on, she was going to be at my sister's for 2-3 weeks.
know how long she is going to be staying there? two nights.
I'll give you a minute.
yeah so my dad was scheduled for surgery at 10:30 am. At 9:00 am my sis got a phone call form the doctor, saying casually, "We went in early, it's done, he's fine." She was shocked that the doctor said it like it was no big deal. I explained to her. It's no big deal. Just this evening I had dinner with a couple where the guy had both hips replaced a few years ago. He told me he was walking in two days and mowing the lawn in a week.
that's my mom.
today once again, I thank baby Jesus that I do not live anywhere near there.
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