What to say, what to say...

I find myself a little bit stumped on what to say tonight.  Last week, each day brought dramatic changes to Mom's condition.  This week, now that she's back to being fully coherent and out of the hospital, things are kind of leveling off and the changes are a lot less drastic.  I just got off the phone with her, and she's had a fairly good day, but she's still pretty anxious with all of the changes that have occurred (who wouldn't be?) and places that are healing a little slower than others.  She's also still in learning mode with how to manage her feeding tube and she's trying to figure out a system that will give her the most freedom possible.  The liquid that comes into her feeding tube is like a souped up version of Ensure or something like that and it goes into a tube in her tummy through a pump that slowly sends the liquid into her body.  It takes a long time to get her full dose (around twelve hours), and during that time, she's tied down with this pump and that would definitely make me antsy too.  Despite all of this, she's really glad to be home and she's really enjoyed all of her visitors.  She tires easily, and just in the short amount of time we were on the phone, I could tell she was winded from carrying on our conversation, but the distraction of talking to others seems to help.  All in all, she's doing great.  In fact, she's feeling just well enough that she's getting her hair cut tonight.  We have an amazing hairdresser who comes to our house to do our hair and when we told her Mom wants to cut her hair short, she pretty much told us to name the time and she'd be there.  So tonight Mom is saying bye-bye to longer hair and she's going to embrace a pixie haircut.  Right now she doesn't really have the energy to worry about her hair and if (and I know we're all crossing our fingers this doesn't happen) she loses her hair when she starts chemo, it won't be as drastic a change as it would be if her hair was still long.  Since Staci is home right now to help out, I've asked her to take some pictures so I can post one of Mom's new hairstyle, so everyone be sure to check that out tomorrow.  I'm sure it's going to look awesome!
I just wanted to mention how grateful I am for those of you who brought us dinner while Mom was still in the hospital, and to those of you who are bringing meals now at home.  Even though Mom can't eat, she told me how glad she was that food was coming in so no one had to worry about cooking.  It's such a blessing to have all of you for an extended family!