Ahhhh — the chance to sleep in and to recover from my valium over dose yesterday and sleep in I did. I woke feeling groggy and ill at 7:30 - complained, moped, drank coffee and nibbled on breakfast before heading back for a nap at 9:30 (a.m.!) It was after 1:00 p.m. when Tom woke me. Still felt yucky but a little more clearer headed. Can see the hematoma like bruising from yesterday’s battles … physical and emotionally exhaustion makes sense, I suppose.
At 3:30 p.m. we headed out to fulfill our plans to take Kris out for our monthly visit with her and her chance for fun and normalcy away from the Psychiatric Center. What I hadn’t anticipated was that an apparent change in her medications (why don’t they ever tell us anything!) had left her agitated; hyper; over-talkative and anxious with a delusion that she is being released in a few days. She was also eager to share this and other personal tidbits to innocent clerks, waitresses (at the pizza joint we took her to) and patrons of said restaurant and K-Mart. Tom said she even all but demanded that a complete stranger help her locate a fanny pack at K-Mart (while I surreptitiously had briefly left him alone with her so I could purchase the required milk of magnesium for my pre-op evening in peace).
In any event, the few hours we spent with her were unusually taxing and any plans I had of telling her about my surgery evaporated within minutes of assessing her deteriorated mental state. Fortunately, her dream plan for next visit is to be taken to a Bisons Baseball game - allowing me to beg off because “I don’t like baseball, so is it okay if Tom takes you alone just this once?” Plus, I’d won four free tickets for a May game - so later we called Pete (who would be happy to join in — i.e., see a free game and help out with Kris). This way, Kris needn’t even know about my surgery until I’m fully recovered and so is she!
April 18th, 2009 | 
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