I Spent Nearly Two Weeks Recovering From Surgery and My Husband Never Visited Once—Then I Came Home and Froze at the Front Door
Then only as needed.
No dramatic cure.
Hospitals still make him uneasy.
He dislikes the smell.
He becomes quiet around ventilator sounds on television.
He does not need to become someone with no reaction.
He needed enough tools that the reaction stopped making decisions for him.
That is a much more realistic goal.