Prez Day

Very tired today, but seem to have turned the corner a little on the pain. In other words, it's a little better today than yesterday. I'm enjoying some music today, washed up this morning (hair still gross), and feeling like maybe I can make it. Mostly I'm just tired. Seems like everytime I get to dozing, someone comes in, the phone rings or something. Please don't take it personally, but I think I'm going to turn off my phone for a while.

Had a bad nurse yesterday - she was awful! - and I think that made my emotional state even worse. Today I have great folks again, and everything looks/feels better. Still in pain, but taking it one hour at a time. Not thinking further into the future than just getting home.

It's the little things that make a huge difference:

• Simon drew me a great forest scene on the whiteboard in my room, which is really sweet.
• a nurse's assistant who is pro-active (do you need more ice in your cup?)
• someone who thinks to pull my hosp gown closed in the back, giving me some sense of dignity and privacy
• a smile from the dr, understanding that the pain sucks
• being able to adjust my bad leg on my own . . . a little
• washing my hands at the sink
• sunshine outside the window
• turning the TV off
• planning what I'll write in my letter to the hosp. about that bad nurse yesterday who rolled her eyes when I said I was in pain

Just about everyone here has been really great. Don't you worry, folks, this will eventually be over.