Todays Surgery

Surgery days are definitely my least favorite days.  I sit around waiting for Chris to get out of surgery and recovery, which always takes a long time.  Then on top of it, my hotel was evacuated from 9am-3pm for some air conditioning switch out.  I was like "great now what will I do to pass time".  Another couple from our company is down here doing recovery as well.  She saved me from pure boredom today!  She picked me up and took me to Starbucks for the first time since I got down here (and trust me that is all I have been craving for days!), took me to SFAC to finally get the paper work going to receive my per diem pay, and got a few things at the PX.  So thank goodness for that!  My husband was in surgery and recovery from about 7am-3pm.  Today they went in and cut the bone in his left leg about 3-4inches then stretched the muscle and skin around to close it up.  So as you can imagine he was in a lot of pain after surgery today.  I feel so bad seeing him on days like this, because I want to help but there isn't much I can really do, which sucks.  I always try to be super wife and do everything and keep our lives in order and organized, so things like this are frustrating cause I feel useless sometimes.  Luckily, the pain got a little better and he was able to sleep, which I think can be the best remedy sometimes.  Hopefully tomorrow the pain team is going to do some type of "procedure" that will kind of jump start or reset his nerves, so that pain meds have a better effect on pain control.  Since he has been on the same type of meds for a long period of time, his nerve endings are saturated and it requires higher amounts of meds to have any kind of effect.  So this procedure is supposed to fix that problem, and hopefully his body will beable to respond better to medications after that.
One last thing...I have decided I am going to try and end all my postings with a  quote of the day, which will in some way relate to how I am currently feeling. Hope you enjoy them :) Here is todays:

♥ One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ♥