The Marathon Woman

Okay...I I have to share this with all of you. The nurses were encouraging mom to go for a walk in the hallways because it tends to help after having anesthesia from her ERCP earlier today. She was feeling kinda puny after laying in bed for the last 24+ hours. So, she finally agreed to go for a walk. As we were heading out the nurse said "Nine laps around makes a mile, if you're feeling ambitious" I think she might have been semi joking, but it's hard to tell.

So we got up and started walking, mom in her very "Dude"-like hospital robe pushing her mobile IV machine, and after a lap or two around mom was feeling tons better. So she then decided she was going to make it a mile. So she just went at it and looked like she was feeling better with every lap.

True story...when a baby is born in the hospital here they play Brahms's Lullaby over the intercom. So, two babies were born while mom and I walked the mile!! Kinda cool.

But cooler still was how mom decided she was going to RUN to the finish line about 3 doors down from her room here which with her wild hair, standard issue blue footie slippers, disheveled hospital robe, and feeble run  made her look like a total mental patient to everyone else (myself included). The fact that she was laughing while she was doing this wasn't helping her case, either. I wish I could have taken a picture of the faces of the family sitting in the room next to us who saw the whole thing transpire. Priceless.


In other news... mom is talking to Joy on the phone and Joy must have said something about her walking with her "dancing partner" to which mom replied: "Just tryin' to make Leo jealous"