Tomorrow, Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, I rejoin the working world - commute, emails and voice mails all day long, and office politics - here I come. 

For 3 1/2 weeks, I have been home, taking care of the hubby as he recovers from open heart surgery. Its been exhausting at times, relaxing at times, and there were even times that I enjoyed being home playing nurse.  We had a lot of together time...not really talking about deep issues but just time to hang out.

Now I am heading back to the office and to real life.  Part of me is really looking forward to getting back - honestly, being at home the past week or so has been a little lonely for both of us.  Sure, we love to hang out but I think we are both missing the little bit of social life we had - Hubby's ability to grab a beer with the guys or my work events after the day is over to see all my industry buddies.  Starting tomorrow, we may be able to get some of that back.  Little by little, Hubby is getting that back too. 

We still have a long way to go in recovery but I am hopefully that tomorrow is the first step back to the normal insanity we call our life.

SAH

While taking care of the hubby as he recovers from surgery, I have been able to do some of the Mom things I dont get to do all the time during the day - including attending 2 Thanksgiving events at Grace's daycare and school.

So adorable.

Daycare had Thanksgiving lunch for the parents and we surprised Grace when Daddy showed up for that on Wednesday.

But the true highlight of the week was her Kindergarten Thanksgiving Show yesterday. Video below - I edited it from 17 minutes to just over 10 minutes....seriously adorable.  (password is grace)


Thanksgiving Show 2009 from Jaime Barnhart on Vimeo.

Home.

This is what a happy patient looks like when he is finally home with his girls.  

Day By Day

Surgery recovery is hard.  The incision hurts.  Nurses poke with needles at all hours of night.  Sleep is non-existent.  Machines beep.  And you have to drag an IV pole everywhere with you for days at a time.

What no one tells you is how boring it can be too.  You can only watch bad daytime tv for so long.  Magazines get so unexciting.  Yes, even the crappy gossip mags arent entertaining anymore. 

Today we spent time napping and reading and did some Christmas shopping research online for Grace. 

And tomorrow, we will probably do the same thing. 

We are both really looking forward to going home to our own bed, our own tv selections, and most of all, our little girl.

Status Update

Its been a really long 4 days but we are almost home.  

Surgery was a few days ago and Bill has made such good progress.  Less than 24 hours in ICU and this weekend in the cardiac unit, he has been a good patient.  A few more days and we can head home to recover. 

For now, we spend our days taking slow walks around the unit and breathing exercises to help his lungs expand.  And every 4 hours we push the call button for some pain meds.

We had a steady stream of visitors today.  It amazed us.  The hospital is an hour from home yet so many of our friends made the trip to spend some time with Bill.  We really are lucky to have such good people in our lives.

We are both tired. . We are both anxious to get home but dedicated to waiting until his body is ready.  We both miss Grace.  And most of all, we both know how lucky we are to live so close to such remarkable doctors that gave Bill new parts so he can live a long life with us at home.