Fall New (Dark) Moon
Back from the hospital to visit Kate. She has the blue plastic line with its black plunger next to her at all times so she can get in the morphine drip for her current fifteen minute period. Aside from the bout with nausea during standing at around 8:30 am, she seems in reasonable, if not great spirits. She did stand without nausea later in the day, a big step, but the pain is still intense while upright.
The People magazine I brought for her has a picture/picture puzzle where you have to identify the things that change from one picture to its near-identical twin below. I gave it to her and she found 6 right away (out of 10).
We chatted off and on about the dogs, Ruth, her sisters, hospital care and the every dependable quality of hospital food (mediocre). She feel asleep from the morphine at one point. I wandered off and got supper, takeout from McDonald’s. This seemed appropriate to me since the spine folks share floors with the Minneapolis Heart Hospital. I figured my meal could bring me back to those very precincts. When I got she back, she had her meal: tomato soup, chocolate pudding, a fruit drink and, best of all, Coffee! We ate together while a cold rain fell and a mist settled over the skyline of Minneapolis.
She doesn’t like the condition she’s in right now, but in her words, “I signed up for it, so I need to suck it up.” Hmmm.
That’s all the news from Lake Woebegone for today.
