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E004: It Shouldn't Be Much Longer
"The doctor will be with you shortly."
"It shouldn't be much longer."
If you've ever waited in a hospital, you know those words can mean absolutely anything.
In this episode of The Wicked Daughter, surgery is scheduled... then mysteriously canceled... after the cafeteria apparently gets the memo before the nurses.
Between endless waiting, another day without food, and the quiet fear of anesthesia, I learn that sometimes the hardest part of caregiving isn't doing something...
it's waiting to do anything at all.
And when Mom finally returns from surgery, nothing could have prepared me for the…
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