On the Road to Recovery

After two consecutive exhausting commute days, I knew I wasn't going to get much rest today what with the drive into New Jersey (on what's always been touted as one of the year's busiest travel days), so I was up around 4 or so, lay back down at 5:30 for an hour, and couldn't stay asleep due to leg cramps. I did what I should have done much earlier, put on compression socks for the drive and the visit to see Mom in the ICU. If you're at all in the Morris County, NJ area and you need urgent medical care, I truly believe you could do no better than the Morristown Medical Center. Everyone there was attentive, professional, knowledgeble, compassionate (which Mom, having been a nurse for decades, took pains to confirm to her nurse today, saying "if you don't have compassion, you have no business being a nurse"), and extremely helpful as we wound our way around the corridors and environs trying to get a bearing. Mom was still pretty out of things, but she's been pretty ill and needs time to recover, and she was able to hold up her end of short conversations. And she's trending better! By the end of the day she had been moved from ICU to stepdown, the next stage before she can be released back to her long-term care facility to continue her recuperation. I could see the relief on my brother's face, which I'm sure matched my own to an extent, and felt good enough to treat Robin to sushi on the way home (Kura currently has great fish & chips!) before I simply collapsed. (Although I must say, I never felt anything near to a "biggest travel day" traffic situation!) I was going to do some prep for tomorrow's Thanksgiving-for-two, but Rob's appetite isn't what it used to be so we've cut way down on the sides and when I woke from my afternoon nap I couldn't do anything more than chop the chestnuts Robin had roasted and peeled. That dish will have to wait to be assembled and cooked tomorrow, when I will have so, so much to be thankful for!