Never a dull moment with the Restaino's and it started with the arrival of Tony and David late Friday night. We spent time catching up and all appeared to be the start of a wonderful Christmas break. That is until Saturday. Tony woke up with pain in his abdomen, which seemed to be increasing by the hour. In the early afternoon we headed to the emergency room and several hours later he was in surgery to remove his appendix. And although this was so different, and much easier than Joe, the florescent lights, the smells, the checking, double checking and the constant pushing of the call button for pain medications brought back all those memories. We were only there 24 hours which left me with the question of how did we do this for years? Well, the answer is simply that is what you do for those you love.
And in the darkness of Tony's room with me sleeping in a chair, although at the age of eighteen he is legally an adult, I knew I could not leave him since he is and always will be my son. Just the same way I could never leave Joe. Call it the "mom factor".
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