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Let me be broken, so I may be healed

I have learned so much in the past week.  I have learned that I am not a superhero.  I have learned that I cannot do everything.  I have learned that sometimes you have to let others do for you and that I have lots of others who love me enough to just that.  I have learned that I am married to a pretty darn amazing man.  And I have learned that humble pie doesn't taste that bad. See, I thought this surgery was going to go down differently.  I thought I was going to be the super-patient who leapt off the surgery table and danced a jig. I thought I'd be home in record time.  I thought I'd be able to do things myself as soon as I got home.  I thought I'd be back in the office on Monday. Instead, I had blood pressure complications and ended up not walking for much longer than even the "normal" APLF patient (much less the super ones). Instead, I had blood loss issues that made me stay in the hospital and away from my girls a day long...