LauraJUnderwood
Silly Author Person
So today, we headed for the next town over to visit the eye clinic and do the followup on Mom's surgery. She was scared. Every time we go to this particular place, she gets bad news, and she was convinced they were going to tell her the surgery had failed.
I did what I could to calm her down, let her yammer on about inane things, and encouraged her to laugh and joke about silly things we saw on the drive there (though I must say, nothing beats the signs between my town and Nashville where there used to be one that declared "Jesus Saves Goo-Goos 3 for $1.00" or the time I looked at a church bulletin while driving through Texas and swear it said something about "Presbyterian Chickens," but let's not go there.
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We got there early, and apparently the clinic was not terribly busy that day, so we got taken in almost immediately and saw the doctor within 15 minutes of arrival...
The prognosis is good. The doctor muttered "Auxillary is stablizing" and my mother almost panicked and asked, "Is something wrong?"
The doctor looked a little puzzled and assured her that everything was fine and the retina was stablizing.
"Oh, good," she said, "Because every time I come here, you folks never have anything but bad news for me."
He looked even more puzzled (I, meanwhile, was trying not to let anyone see me laugh), and assured her once more that the news was good and the eye was healing nicely...
That made her feel better.
She's been cheery all afternoon.
And I am just glad to know this time the surgery worked. I know my mother well enough. She would rather go blind in one eye than have to go through that pain again.
Laura J. Underwood
I did what I could to calm her down, let her yammer on about inane things, and encouraged her to laugh and joke about silly things we saw on the drive there (though I must say, nothing beats the signs between my town and Nashville where there used to be one that declared "Jesus Saves Goo-Goos 3 for $1.00" or the time I looked at a church bulletin while driving through Texas and swear it said something about "Presbyterian Chickens," but let's not go there.
).We got there early, and apparently the clinic was not terribly busy that day, so we got taken in almost immediately and saw the doctor within 15 minutes of arrival...
The prognosis is good. The doctor muttered "Auxillary is stablizing" and my mother almost panicked and asked, "Is something wrong?"
The doctor looked a little puzzled and assured her that everything was fine and the retina was stablizing.
"Oh, good," she said, "Because every time I come here, you folks never have anything but bad news for me."
He looked even more puzzled (I, meanwhile, was trying not to let anyone see me laugh), and assured her once more that the news was good and the eye was healing nicely...
That made her feel better.
She's been cheery all afternoon.
And I am just glad to know this time the surgery worked. I know my mother well enough. She would rather go blind in one eye than have to go through that pain again.
Laura J. Underwood
