Well, we’re back from visiting Mum, and can report that she’s very well, and has been flirting with her consultant surgeon!!! She’s pretty sore, and on a liquid diet, but they were able to do the whole thing with an endoscope (it was an operation on her throat, for something called a pharyngeal pouch), so she’s no external marks at all. Just a question now of monitoring her blood clotting levels until things are back to normal, and then she can come home.
This really does feel like a major hurdle overcome; after the events of the last year, I was convinced something would go wrong, but it hasn’t, and suddenly things seem just that little bit more rosey.
To top the evening off, Mum insisted that Chris and I took ourselves out for a meal on her after our visit, so we did, and jolly good it was too. Just one tip : if you’re having anything you’d eat with your fingers, please remember you’ve used the hospital’s alcohol gel to clean your hands BEFORE you then lick your fingers – it really ISN’t finger lickin’ good!!
