The surgery was scheduled as out-patient. The plan was once Eve was able to walk out of the hospital, we would. And as things turned out, that pretty much was how it worked.

I have no complaints about any of the doctors or nurses involved in Eve's surgery. They were all very kind and considerate, especially the anethesiologist, who explained many things to us. Against normal procedures, they allowed me to stay with Eve up until the last minute before they took her to the operating room. I was unable to hold her in bed, so she came to my chair and I held her tight until it was time. She was terrified as she was taken away.

I promised I would be there when she woke up, but that was made difficult. The operation took two hours, and the doctor came to talk to me in the waiting room as soon as it was over. He gave me a quick briefing and I was notified the instant Eve was in the recovery room. I got there quickly, but Eve was already awake. She never held it against me though that I wasn't there.

And the moment Eve could manage it, we began to slowly get her back into her cloths. The nurses all looked at us strangely as they saw what we were doing, but none of them said much. As Eve gathered her strength back to walk, the only thing that stopped us was a delay in her prescriptions.

Prescriptions were always a problem with Eve, and during the 'interlude', every day brought a new attempt to acquire drugs that worked for her. Eve knew what did work, and what didn't. She knew what she preferred, and what caused horrible reactions when she took them. And except for just a few, most doctors completely ignored her when making up prescriptions for her. This had caused horrible explosions of anger when this happened before, and now a mixup was again in the works. We caught the error and asked for a correction while we were still in the hospital. And we waited. But the doctor was already involved in something else. Eve was growing panicked. So with stunned nurses looking on, I took Eve down to the car just to get her out of the hospital, and then came back to wait myself for the prescription to be rewritten.