Lilly

We’re days out from surgery and tensions are already high. How are we going to handle my absences from school? Will I be able to get around on crutches without breaking, well, something else? What if the anesthesia makes me nauseous? I have to keep eating to start the healing process, right? What if…

It’s all been a little much.

If there’s one good thing that this surgery will bring—right from the start—it is a few days to let things settle. I don’t care how much I’ll need to catch up on once I actually go back to school. Right now I just need quiet: I’m sick of all this noise in my head. There’s too much to do and not enough of me to go around. ♦