Like Mother, Like Daughter?

When my mother was a teenager, back in 1957, she fell off her horse onto pavement and fractured her skull (a dog spooked the horse). I believe it was called a double basal compound fracture. She was in a coma for several weeks. They had to remove the bones covering the back of her skull due to both the fractures and swelling, and they had no idea if she would make it. Well, obviously she did :-) She has lived almost 50 years with a plate covering the back of her skull and has been on dilantin all that time to prevent seizures.

Now it is about 50 years later and I will be having surgery to remove this tumor along with a couple of bones in my head that will be replaced with titanium and I will be on dilantin. I know my Mom is worried about me (as are all my family and friends), but wonder, is this payback for the worry she put her mother through way back then ;-) Kind of like the old saying "Just wait until you have a daughter/son just like you" (lol)

Several people have called and emailed to ask if I was nervous or worried about the upcoming surgery. I'm really not worried too much, especially compared to all my Mom went through and survived...and that was 50 years ago at St Lukes Hospital in New Bedford, MA (shudder). I have the best doctors and Hospital, will have the surgery with Dr Black using an interoperative MRI, and they only had an xray for my Mom's surgery! I figure that other then a headache this has to be better then abdominal surgery since I'll be able to eat sooner and won't have staples from hip to hip. Mostly any anxiety I'm having is with the unknown. I'm the kind of person that checks out everything before a vacation and doesn't always like unexpected surprises. I also like to be in control a bit too much at times and tend to hate the idea of people having to change their lives to take care of me. With this surgery I will not be in control of anything for about 2 weeks or longer afterward so that is bothering me just a tad. I tend to make a lousy patient and can give good advice at times, but rarely listen to myself (grin).

Next week at this time I will be in my regular room getting stronger every day. Since there are two people to a room I hope I have someone nice and not someone who thinks their husband is hiding under the bed (you had to be there, lol).