Mama's emergency surgery was successful, the surgeon said yesterday. He removed about eight inches of "dead" colon, which will require about five days in the ICU here and more time to recover either here or at another hospital.
She was awake the two times I saw her after the surgery yesterday.
The surgeon said we should think of Mama's recover in terms of weeks and months. She's back to breathing on a ventilator since the doctors wanted to make sure she would have stable breathing during her surgery. She had been through a lot recently. Sunday marks a month since she was rushed by ambulance from Yazoo City to University Medical Center.
This morning Mama was alert and heard me say "Merry Christmas" to her. Even with a lot of tubes in her mouth, she tried to wish me one too.
Will post soon a video from this morning.
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