The surgery is over...

Well, here I am... sitting on the best hospital visitor-bed I've seen (not that I've had a lot of experience).  Today my Mom had her surgery. It certainly wasn't easy to sit in the waiting room and try not to stare at the clock as 5 1/2 hours went by but the surgeon said that all went well. So... by the time tonight is over, I will probably have been up for about 24 hours. A little bit ago I went to my brother's house and took a shower to wake up and get ready for the night, let's hope it lasts! Hmmm.... I've been back about an hour and the nurses have probably been in and out a dozen times. Don't get me wrong... the nurses are great, I'm just hoping my Mom will get a chance to try and sleep.  

This hospital is pretty new and it's really nice! All the rooms are individual and the hospital even has room service and a menu that's several pages long to choose from! The bathroom (one for each room) has nice tile and everything. Oh yea... get this... you can have some of the decor changed in your room if you don't like it or just want something different!! So anyway... I'm impressed. Of course, it doesn't hurt that I don't have high expectations about hospitals after my Dad's hospital stay this last summer. The only thing good about that hospital was that the nurses were absolutely amazing... everything else was seriously miserable. So in comparison to that experience, I feel like I'm haning in a luxury resort or something. I can definitely see how patients would be more likely to heal and have a more positive attitude in this environment. 

I have to say that in this case, I'm happy to have the night shift with my Mom. It's not quite as busy and she gets to snooze a little more. Of course, in my Dad's case the nights were the hardest and kind of the scariest so I guess you get the good with the bad.  Oh... and since half of my family has come down with a cold, we're trying to keep them from being here for very long because if my Mom gets sick it won't be good for the healing process!! So... that could mean double duty for me but whatever it takes is okay by me as long as my Mom is okay in the end. 

Anyway... we're praying for my Mom and hoping everything continues to go as well as it did today. She will probably be in the hospital for another 4-5 days and then she'll be doing a lot of recovering at home for several weeks before she can get back to any kind of mild normalcy. 

Grey's Anatomy needs.... something!

I'm kind of annoyed with Grey's Anatomy lately... 

It's still my number one show; however, lately the show has taken some weird turns and they're annoying. What's the deal with Izzy and her stinkin' hallucinations? I loved Denny when he was REAL but... really??? or should I say.. Seriously?? Seriously?? I really like Karev and Izzy together and Denny's screwin it up.  

NEXT... the new intern... i forget her name but Merideth's old friend... what is she thinking? She's psycho. She actually could have been a nice addition if it weren't for the fact that it seems like ABC is stretching to add something to the show. I think more than anything, I'm annoyed by the fact that after tonight's show, she seems to be flirting with Torrez just to get ahead. And then of course there's the whole idea of Torrez 'switching teams' then running her new girlfriend off after not being sure about what she likes and then... oh guess what... she's into the new intern. I guess she didn't really have issues with becoming gay after all. 

My favorite episodes in the show are when they mix the medical drama with the personal drama but lately it's been nothing but personal drama and sure... I'm a girl and I like that kind of thing sometimes... but that's not the Grey's that I loved. If it weren't for how attached to the show I am from the first few seasons I would so be moving on already. Moving on would be really easy for me to do too (unlike Izzy) since CSI is on at the same time and I record it every Thursday so that I can catch both shows. 

Okay, okay... I know I'm totally ranting and yes I still like the show (so far) but I'm majorly disappointed in this season. I'm really hoping that it improves before the season is over.