(Flowers seem much better at Home!)
You can fill in the missing words with ease, but the reality of “Coming Home” after a period of supervised living is pretty abrupt. It causes this to be a briefer edition of The Daily than I had anticipated. Getting used to the hospital ward environment is abrupt and relentless. Lights on most of the time. Direct discomfort. Shift change at twelve-hour intervals. Impressively loud voices in the passageway at all times.
Having been home less than a day has a bounty of liberty. Healing seems to be progressing. Lights are turned off. Pain is diminished. There have been moments of actual silence. I am going to treasure this return to the more placid world that lives “at home!”
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