Just a friendly reminder from mom herself - WHITE RABBITS TOMORROW!!!! Mom is counting on your luck this month - we all are. Please don't forget!  I took mom's white rabbits in to her tonight so that she would see them when she wakes up tomorrow...that's assuming she sleeps.  Poor mom is absolutely EXHAUSTED - as exhausted as I think is humanely possible.  She is finding her bed in the hospital very uncomfortable.  With all the wires, tubes and drains combined with the discomfort from the surgery she is not getting much (or any) sleep.  She finds the nights very very long.  Tonight we joined her in the evening for the first time (other days she's sent us home at dinner).  We figured it might help pass the time a little and keep her up a little later so she wouldn't be wide awake at 1 in the morning.  We tried to watch a movie but we only lasted 11 minutes!  

Overall today was another "good" day.  If mom saw me write "good" she would probably roll her eyes.   This has been a very unpleasant experience to say the least - mom said she wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy. That being said she remains strong.  Today she did 12 laps of the ward - TWELVE!  The physio therapist today said she's walked more than any other patient she's seen considering she's only four days out.  She's very very determined.  The air leak in her lung sealed off today too and her chest tubes are all draining less gunk.  Hopefully by early this week she can have some of them removed.  The nurse today said she can probably move into a new room on Monday or Tuesday as well.   A few more days of this and things should start to turn around.    It is so so so difficult to see my mom go through this - her spirit is so apparent but none of this seems even the slightest bit right.  I have moments where I just stop and think, "how did we get here?" - but no time for self pity - there's work to be done... breathing exercises to do, walks to accomplish, a wedding to attend...

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." 

DON'T FORGET