Dear all,
I hope, I'm posting this in the right forum. I have a question that's been bothering me for quite some time, and I'm hoping some of you might have some insight that could help me:
In the mid-eighties, my BPD-mother was away for several months and I was in foster care while this went on. Her story was that she had to have an operation for capal tunnel-syndrome which required her to be hospitalized for appr. 2 - 3 months. She was not allowed to come home from the hospital except on one occasion where she spent one night at home and then had to go back. I was never allowed to visit her at the hospital. When she came home, she had a long scar from her right wrist and 15 cm's up her arm (consistent with an operation for capal tunnel-syndrome).
She was home for a couple of months, and then had to go back to have her left arm operated. The story repeated, and she came home 2 - 3 months later with a similar scar on her left arm.
So, what's bugging me is this: Even though it was in the eighties, I find it difficult to believe that a relatively simple operation would require a woman with small children to be hospitalized for months, not even coming home in the weekend. I suspect she was in a psychiatric hospital in stead, but I don't want to "make up stories" about her.
Can anyone help, all guesses and speculations are welcome.

I do not have access to anyone who actually know what really happened for all those months.
All the best,
Lise