Back to the subject at hand.
Surrealism- This whole journey is quite surreal at the moment. On December 9 Mom was told she had a mass. On December 10 we were told she had incurable and inoperable brain cancer. At that time she couldn't really walk by herself and wasn't doing really good.
Now here we are six weeks later and Mom is doing so much better! Yet there are those 'deadlines' the doctor gave us that day. It is all quite surreal. Since that time Mom has had two brain surgeries, one here in OKC by the original neurosurgeon. The second in Dallas by a more specialized neurosurgeon who said he would operate on what the first surgeon called inoperable. He gave us pretty good odds that Mom would end up literally half blind, but he could get most of the big tumor out. Well, Mom does not even really notice the little bit of her sight that she lost because of that tumor being 95% removed. We consider that to be a miracle!!
In between surgeries, while we were very much enjoying spending as much time together as possible and enjoying the Christmas festivities, Mom said to me "I don't know what to say when people ask me how I am. I feel fine. I have no pain. But I have a tennis ball in my head!!" Well after the second surgery, I told her she just needed to change that to "I feel fine. I just have a hole in my head!!" (And I asked the doctor if that hole would stay like that or not. He said because of where it is, it will probably remain just like it is, a hole in her head.)
Anyway, that is surrealism at its best I think. Mom is doing great right now. Doing my best to enjoy one day at a time and not worry about tomorrow. God is in control and He will take care of tomorrow.
So Impressionism is in this post because it is my favorite type of art. Claude Monet specifically! And I thought it appropriate for this post because Mom has made such an impression on so many young people!
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