Afternoon of day 2 in the hospital was mostly uneventful as hospital stays go, except for the hurricane like weather that was going on outside. Word came later in the afternoon that my husbands surgeon who was out of state at a conference would be coming in to see him as soon as he landed at the airport. The surgeon came straight away from the airport to the hospital to meet with us and arrived in my husbands room that evening to discuss with us the course of treatment. Which happened to be surgery first thing the next morning. Surgery that early in the week isn't typical so the importance of the surgery was made quite clear. Readying my husband for surgery the next morning was the evenings plan. We met a young, sweet nursing assistant in the process. She asked if she could tell us something and we said absolutely. She said to us this: that the feeling that she got when she came in the room from us was so tremendous that she had to tell us what she felt. She said she felt a strength and calmness from us that she had not felt before. She felt good energy and didn't want to leave the serenity that she felt in the room. She told me she could feel my strength especially and a calming presence. I thanked her and she gave me a huge hug and came away with tears in her eyes. Grace. ( I had been told this before at my husbands first surgery by the surgeons physicians assistant. She had told me that she felt an enduring strength in us and a calm that was palpable.)
It was time for me and my son to go back to our room at the hospitals Inn. Try to sleep. The next morning would be early and it was already very late in the evening.
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