Mom had her surgery yesterday -- it was to replace her knee replacement. Her knee replacement was 20 years old and down to the metal, so it was time for a new one, as she was in a great deal of pain.
The surgery went okay -- there were some complications, ones we were prepared for and ones we weren't. The complications = a longer recovery time for my mother and possibly a lesser degree of bend in the new knee. >:/ We all knew this was going to be a complex surgery (see yesterday's entry), so.
Her surgeon later asked me, as an aside, "Your mother mentioned her husband's death while going under sedation...it sounded pretty recent." "Uh, no, it was almost six years ago." "Oh! The way she was speaking, it sounded like it had just happened..." "Well, she's had a difficult adjustment -- to her, it feels like it did just happen."
: sigh :