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Mama was supposed to have surgery today.
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I know this shouldn't be funny, but it is. One would really have to know all the background to understand, but I can't help but laugh. My oldest sister is Mama's guardian (long story behind that one). In terms of my mother's care, she either makes decisions without thinking through them at all or makes decisions based on what she would want if she were the patient—not what Mama would want.
This was such a situation. Mama is almost completely blind now due to cataracts. Without asking Mama what she wanted, my sister planned for her to have cataract surgery, which was scheduled for today (Friday). Others in the family were concerned that Mama was neither physically nor mentally able to go through the surgery, but that didn't matter to my sister.
Well, Mama was taken to the office today for the surgery. When she found out what was going on, she shrank down into the chair, closed her eyes tightly, and told the doctor that he wasn't doing surgery on her. She went on to say that she was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and was one of the 144,000 and that Jehovah was going to take care of her eyes. Then she started quoting scriptures. (I am not exaggerating when I say that I think she has memorized all, or most at the very least, of the Bible.)
Needless to say, Mama didn't have the surgery, and my sister, who has always been embarrassed about my Mama's religion and her mental illness, was humiliated. I wouldn't think it was funny if she had discussed the situation with Mama and/or the rest of the family before making the decision for surgery, but she didn't.
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