Gratitude Post 12-31-18

I am grateful for human resiliency, and the constitution of my Mother's body and willpower. I am grateful for nurses that do their job, and for nurses that go above and beyond to look out for my mother, for surgical staff that kept my mother alive and gave the surgeon time to fix what was slowly killing her. I am grateful for dilaudid, and fentanyl, and morphine and all of the much-maligned painkillers that kept my mother in little enough pain that she could sleep and heal after two major surgeries. I am grateful for the doctors who do their jobs and hold other doctors accountable to do theirs.

I am grateful to not be adding another death to my upcoming Day of Mourning. I am grateful for Mom's life. So very gd grateful.