A big day awaits my bride and me. It’s coming on Monday, which is when she checks out of the Medical City/McKinney (Texas) rehab unit and returns home.
Many of you know the story by now. She had a cancerous tumor removed from her brain two days after Christmas. She has been in rehab for several days regaining her strength, her balance, her dexterity in her left hand.
Now I must prepare to say so long to some folks who have become almost like family to us. I refer to the rehab medical staff at Medical City.
I have told many of them already to their smiling faces how much we appreciate the care she has received. I am ratcheting it up a bit farther with this blog post.
To be brutally candid, at this moment I am not sure how I am going to hold my emotions in check when she leaves the rehab center.
Now, spare me the lecture about how they’re just doing their jobs; that they are trained to do the things we have asked of them; that they hear high praise all the time and they likely might not even remember us once we walk out the door.
I don’t care about any of that. I feel the overwhelming need to praise them for their kindness, their caring, their compassion, their senses of humor and their patience with doting family members who ask them zillions of questions each day.
So, I am offering them praise here. Hey, it’s my blog and I intend to use it as a source of encouragement for them as they prepare to do the very same thing for future patients who will entrust themselves to their care.
These medical professionals all have brought a measure of joy to us on this latest lap on our life journey. More challenges lie ahead but we are keeping the faith that a positive outcome awaits.
I am just want to keep the blubbering to a minimum when we leave the hospital and head for the house.
John, we share your mixed emotions about leaving these angels who have taken care of your wife (and you)
at the hospital. We have two nurses in our family who give their all every day. Blessing to you both as you return home.