{"id":713,"date":"2007-05-20T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/05\/20\/2nd-mombonian-update\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:17:44","slug":"2nd-mombonian-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/713","title":{"rendered":"2nd Mombonian Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The time was almost 9 pm when we got to visit Mombo on Saturday. It was so satisfying to see her in her own private room, with a minimum of medical apparatus. She was quite talkative and tried to sort out all the occurrences in what had been an incredibly long day that began when she woke up in the Care Unit. When she asked, \u201cWas that today?\u201d I had to say, \u201cMust have been, since yesterday was your surgery, and you were knocked out until this morning.\u201d Her look of astonishment told me that she was living in the middle of a whirlwind recovery, and I knew it was time for us to leave and for her to get some needed rest. Jeanne took a dinner break while we were there and was preparing to spend the night. As we were leaving, Mombo was having the nurse explain each of the medications she was being asked to swallow\u2014precisely the kind of perpetual skepticism so essential in the hospital environment. I thought I might be able to rest easier. I figured she was in the clear.<\/p>\n

On the way home we saw the awesome proximity of Venus with a crescent moon<\/a>. This had to be the celestial image that inspired the Turkish national flag. What\u2019s the story behind that? Dana saw her first \u201cshooting star\u201d as we crossed the Kentucky River. For some reason it made me think of when they were taking Mombo into pre-op. She had said, \u201cI\u2019m in good hands,\u201d and I asked, \u201cDo you mean with Truly?\u201d She didn’t understand my question, so I whispered the answer in her ear. \u201dYour guardian angel.\u201d She laughed, but I wasn\u2019t sure if she remembered the name of her life-long protector. <\/p>\n

Perhaps that meteor was in actuality a heavenly body. Truly was telling us my mother was \u201cin the clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time was almost 9 pm when we got to visit Mombo on Saturday. It was so satisfying to see her in her own private room, with a minimum of medical apparatus. She was quite talkative and tried to sort out all the occurrences in what had been an incredibly long day that began when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,12,18,61,37,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}