What It’s Like Needing Surgery During A Pandemic
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Julia Austin
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Your support system is far away
This whole time, I wanted my mom. There’s no other way to say it. My body felt so broken, both in the weeks leading up to surgery and in the time after. Before it, I just knew I had this yucky stuff in my body that needed to get out. I felt like somehow this was my fault, and that I hadn’t been a good caretaker to myself. After surgery, I was aware of this chunk of me that had been cut out and felt so fragile. Only a mother can fix that. There’s nothing like a mom’s care to make you feel like you’re in good hands. If it weren’t for COVID, my mom would have been at my home, in the guest room, ready to stay for weeks the moment my surgery was scheduled. But instead, all we could do was FaceTime.
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