{"id":777,"date":"2008-12-15T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-december-15-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:27:00","slug":"monday-december-15-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/monday-december-15-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday December 15, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

….and it has nothing to do with holiday shopping.  David Lee’s surgery to repair his “long-lost” ACL is scheduled for Thursday.  To him, it’s no big deal.  He plugged it in his palm to remind him of the date and bats the words around as though he were going to McDonalds for lunch.  To him, it’s an in and out, some therapy and back on the road.<\/font><\/p>\n

Not me.  I can’t sleep well for the last three weeks.  At least five times a day Adam says, “Why do you have your very stern look, Mommy?”<\/font><\/p>\n

I keep remembering the day the OR kept paging for staff overhead and everyone knew something was drastically wrong.  Or the middleaged man who came in for very minor, non-essential to life surgery who did very well until after his discharge the following day.  He was walking around his room waiting for transportation to bring a wheelchair to escort him to the front door when he fell over dead.  The doctors thought it was related to the anesthesia.  He was resuscitated but the long term picture wasn’t pretty.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mental flashbacks of life after we had our truck accident two years ago haunt me.  David Lee broke his hand terribly in two places.  David Lee insists this is no comparison.  We couldn’t prepare for that, I was terribly sore the first few days myself, we were just starting to build the house and had a deadline to get the foundation in because our basement walls were coming on schedule, terrible financial stress….<\/font><\/p>\n

All true.  I just keep remembering what it is like to go from two running full speed parents who dash out the door to the days of taking forever to get ready because your husband needs his arm wrapped in plastic for his shower, can’t scrub his back or do his shirt buttons.  What it’s like to have your husband in serious pain.  What it’s like when you’re husband doesn’t take care of himself and goes out to lay block three nights after his break.  What it’s like to have your low-maintenance two year old totally flip out at the sudden change in routine and throw multiple tantrums a day … and the responsibility is yours because your husband is there; but not able to take care of it.  What it’s like to have a husband at home who is not on mental vacation mind-set and who is going crazy to get back to work.<\/font><\/p>\n

I can only hope it will be as different as he says.  The truth is, Adam is four, not two.  And while he survives on routine and order, he does fairly well with change when he is very. very. well prepped verbally.  David Lee has had six months to prepare and purposely scheduled this to coincide with Christmas vacation as much as possible.  He can get easy work lined up for his guys so he doesn’t have to be there mentally (I hope).  <\/font><\/p>\n

Adam loves to play games and do preschool books so David Lee will be able to do more with him from the sofa.  Liam is too young to catch on to any changes in schedule so I’m hoping the boys at least will sort of blip right into this.  Still, I know better then to think it’s going to be a break.  And while I dread the therapy schedule and shlepping everyone to and from town several times a week, if I can at least get David Lee inside the door without fainting outside on the steps when we get home from surgery, I will feel much, much better.  <\/font><\/p>\n

And already, I can’t wait to NOT hear David Lee’s knee go pop, pop, pop, pop with every step he takes.  To wake up in the morning with him instead of getting colder and colder in bed and trying to muster the courage to jump out.  To have him come home from work without pain.  To watch him play softball at the school picnic instead of having to ump.  He’s been incredibly long-suffering with this whole episode.  So here’s to skiing 2009.  <\/font><\/p>\n

And if any of you have been through this, please give all the helpful tips you’ve got.  I have three more days to prepare…..<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….and it has nothing to do with holiday shopping.  David Lee’s surgery to repair his “long-lost” ACL is scheduled for Thursday.  To him, it’s no big deal.  He plugged it… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}