Thanks much for your continued support here. Right now my wife and I are taking turns being with her when she would otherwise be alone. She seems to have come to grips with the outcome. It probably would have been different if she wasn't in distress herself with having to lay on her back for about a week walking a tight rope so to speak. She's always been a tough girl in many ways.
As one of you here said, time will heal this wound. Her life is way too busy to leave much of a vacuum for her to dwell in sorrow. I don't think one truly ever "gets over it" ..but probably has it pushed into a very small corner. I suspect the basic joy she gets out of her daily life will drown out the despair that something like this can produce.
Warmest thanks for your thoughts, prayers, and kind words.