I have spent many days in hospitals as a visitor, advocating for people I love who are too sick and weak to advocate for themselves. In most cases, the patient returned to health and came home to resume a normal life. In the case of my mother-in-law, a very elderly woman with rather advanced dementia, her children decided to bring her home on hospice care and let her go. We all felt at peace with this decision, as if this were the choice she would have made for herself.
In all of this, I've been impressed with the level of care in hospitals, and none of it looks unbearable. I am aware that incisions hurt, and that losing an organ will probably affect the way I feel after surgery, but I'm a pretty tough cookie. I deal well with pain, I heal quickly, and I handle anesthesia easily. I am prepared to accept pain and discomfort from this procedure.
I also understand there is a rather extended follow-up care period. Even if I feel great and have no complications from surgery, follow-up matters. Donating time for scientific research and study in the hope of improving the procedure and tracking possible risks and benefits of living donation is part of the process. I don't have time to add silly things into my schedule, but this is important and worth spending time on.
I have a whole list of silly ideas to post here. Is silliness and morbid humor appropriate here? Vote in the comments section if you think dark humor will add to or detract from the nature of this blog.
I will always vote for humor, even dark / morbid humor. And I believe in it. It is necessary, more so when life is serious. Let me laugh! It lightens my life.
ReplyDeleteI believe if you don't use this blog as an escape for the dark humor and silliness, it will somehow leak into the surveys and answers you give to the doctors and interns that are asking your follow-up research questions. Because I think it is coming anyway, I think you are really just asking where is more appropriate; I vote here.
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