This morning, I woke up at around 7:15 to get my brother on the bus for his school and say goodbye. He called today (instead of Veteran’s Day) “National Getting Revenge on Twisted Spines Day” Mom and I laughed. He didn’t seem to worried about how I was having surgery.
So this morning I had to take a shower, a normal shower, with an added germ-killing soap. Mom helped me apply it to the places that I couldn’t reach, like my back and the backs of my legs and neck. So we have to be at the hospital by 11:30 am, as Dad posted. The surgery doesn’t start till 1 pm, but that’s just when they take me back.
Again, I am SO hungry. I can’t eat anything until after the surgery is done. Yesterday I ended up eating 6/8 waffles in the box and a leftover bowl of applesauce from Tumbleweed. I finished my 8 8oz glasses by 5, one hour ahead of my schedule. I fell behind on the 12-3 glasses, but I caught up 3pm-4pm. I’ll probably end up eating ice chips after the surgery is finished.
When I feel up to it, though, I’m going to color!!! Mom has this HUGE coloring pad for me to use, and she bought me a box of 152 Crayola Crayons!!! I’ve decided that I’m going to color in the car on the way there. I’m going to give some of the sheets to my friends after they’re colored.
The good things about this week are: I GET CANDY!!!!!! I don’t have to do a Reader’s Notebook. I don’t have to practice my clarinet!! Which ROCKS!! So yea. I have some benefits.
Unfortunately, I don’t get to spend time with my black, soft, warm, snuggly cat. She likes to yell at people when I’m not around. Mom and Dad say that “I’m her person”. She snuggles in my lap all the time. She licks my hand playfully and will grab it, with both paws, and lick my hand until either it’s soaking and/or I have to pull my hand away. We’ve come to the conclusion that she’s going to be VERY loud while I’m gone.
And I’m going to miss her, too.
-Titanium Girl