{"id":54012,"date":"2023-01-20T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54012"},"modified":"2023-01-20T01:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:14:52","slug":"cancer-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54012","title":{"rendered":"Her independent streak is alive and well!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pssst … I want to let you in on a little secret, so here goes.<\/p>\n

The therapists at Medical City\/McKinney (Texas) Hospital prepared me thoroughly to be at my wife’s side every step on her recovery from brain surgery. She came home early this week, and I was ready, willing and oh, so very able<\/em> to be there as she took her baby steps back to full speed.<\/p>\n

The secret? She doesn’t need me to be there to the extent the therapists had prepared me.<\/p>\n

Now, don’t misunderstand. I still flinch and get the nervous jerks when she gets up to walk from one room to another in our house. She insists that she’s doing just fine. I believe her. I do not, though, want to get complacent about it … you know?<\/p>\n

The surgery that the doctor performed to remove part of a cancerous tumor was successful in this important regard: It restored her balance and her ability to walk without the constant fear of falling. It was the series of falls she took that prompted our son and daughter-in-law to insist that she visit the hospital ER the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n

The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n

Now the rest of the journey is about to begin. We are seeing doctors and are getting a full rundown of what lies ahead for my bride.<\/p>\n

She fancies herself as an independent sort, and she is all of that. What I am learning in real time is that not even the kind of surgery she endured will change that aspect of her character.<\/p>\n

She is truly amazing.<\/p>\n

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Pssst … I want to let you in on a little secret, so here goes. The therapists at Medical City\/McKinney (Texas) Hospital prepared me thoroughly to be at my wife’s side every step on her recovery from brain surgery. She came home early this week, and I was ready, willing and oh, so very able … Continue reading Her independent streak is alive and well!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[833,10106],"class_list":["post-54012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-cancer","tag-medical-city-mckinney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54013,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions\/54013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}