Pre-Surgery Freak Out mode

Melody
4 min readDec 9, 2022

When things get weird

The skinny tree

Pre surgery freak outs are real! There were some tense moments between Savoy and me the other night because I insisted that I must have a Christmas tree and lights with ornaments of course. He was concerned that it would take up too much space in there already is not a lot of space in this room where I’ll be, but I said no way I have to have it! I don’t think he realized that my tree really was not very big and he laughed at it when he saw it. I was like don’t laugh at my tree. It’s a nice tree. We ended up agreeing to put it on top of my dresser, but now I must have my LED tree because it changes colors as well. Savoy rolled his eyes. You’ve got to be kidding, but I told him I could put that on top of the coffee table.

The horrible steps.

Then we attempted to figure out how I will get up three steep steps when I come home from the hospital we tried everything the crutches didn’t work and finally decided I might have to scoot up sitting down. We still haven’t quite solved that mystery.

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Melody

Writer of Creative Nonfiction and Fiction; Ukulele Player; Lover of the Beatles, rock n’ roll, and the 1960s. Mom & Grandma; lives in Eugene, OR with BF & cat.