Mom is home!

My mom came home from the hospital yesterday (Thursdsay the 5th), and had an appointment with her cardiologist today. When I brought her home yesterday, she was practically jumping out of the car already while I was getting her walker out of my trunk. She seemed like she had not had any surgery, just stayed a few nights at the hospital. She was still a little red because she is allergic to the iodine-contrast dye that they use to see her veins, even though they did pre-op treatment. And still very itchy.

She is doing very well though. She doesn't really seem to have lost any speed. When I was over there on Thursday I had to keep telling her to slow down and let other people do things for her! I am worried that she is going to overdo. She's always been one who does things on her own. Today she seemed good as well.

So, the surgery was successful obviously, and she is doing very well. Everyone who has seen her says that she looks really good, and she is in very good spirits.

At the cardio appt. today, he told us that her heart is functioning normally, which is good news, and that she could have the parathyroid surgery in two months. So now we have to stand by and hope everything stays okay, no more heart problems or scares, and no other problems that the parathyriod may cause before the surgery. I'm not even going to THINK about the surgery right now.

I'm still relieved and happy that she seems almost BETTER in some ways than she did before she had the surgery, but I can't totally feel like we're EVER out of the woods...anything could happen suddenly...you just never know. But I'm going to try to enjoy her being healthy while I can and try not to think too much about all of the "What if's" and worrisome, scary thoughts in the back of my mind. Or getting "that phone call" every time the phone rings late at night.