the monday from hell, well sort of..

so, for as long as i can remember i have always hated mondays. TOday is the perfect example. My mom had her surgery today. It wasn't like simple outpatient surgery that takes an hour, it took 3 hours surgery and 3 hours recovery, After they sent her up to her room, she kept vomiting, which is rediculous b/c she hadn't eaten anything. She couldn't even keep water down. It was bad.
You see, my dear blogger, she has a tomour on her facial nerve behind her ear. As god would have it, it turned out to be benine(relief). It has been there since 1985, when she first experienced paralysis in her from going out in the cold. Since then it has been living off her nerves and getting bigger. Today's procedure was kind of an exploration/ mission to buy more time. What the doctor did was chizzle the bone so the pressure on the nerve from the tumor would be temporarily relieved. He took a little sample of it and the tested it and it turned out to be not cancerous. Hopefully later this year there will be another procedure to completely remove this tumor and insert a graft instead. It will take her a while to gain back control of her face(ie- eye, mouth, emotion), but the damage that is done cannot be reversed. She has lost 50% of her hearing in her left ear. On the bright side, people invented hearing aids.
Anyway, when it comes down to it, i guess everything could be a lot worse. I'm thankful to god that it's just her face and not her whole body. I'm sure things will work out, they always do, one way or another.....