Mum has been struggling with recovery from her hip surgery

The doctors said it would take six weeks. We are at week ten. She is still in pain most mornings and stubborn about her medication — wants to do without it, then crashes by lunchtime. Yesterday she cried for the first time. We sat at the kitchen table for an hour, not saying much. Pray for her body to heal. But more than that, pray for her to receive care without seeing it as defeat. She has spent her whole life caring for everyone else. Receiving is hard for her. And pray for me too. I am impatient and tired. I don't always say the kind thing. I want to be a good daughter through this; I am only sometimes one. #healing #family