Friday, November 25, 2005
Surgery
6:40 a.m. No, I haven’t missed the store openings on Black Friday, but awake with a start to realize that I had 5 minutes to get to the hospital. Who knows what happened to the alarm. I was out the door in less than 5 minutes and on the road to contend with the black ice. Thank heavens traffic is light and the hospital has valet parking. There is so much paperwork to be done when we arrive. Finally we get into to the pre-op area. Two nurses remembered him from the ICU 16 years ago, one even remember which bed he had been in. It was comforting to be remembered and greeted so fondly. One pre-op nurse let him keep her stethoscope for a while.
"Listening to the beat."
He drank the sedative and after it took affect he was wheeled into surgery. He went under quickly. It seemed the procedure took longer than expected, but everything turned out well. Understandably, he was a tad grumpy in recovery. Spitting up a bit of blood. Soon he was being discharged, they brought him a wheelchair. I put the brakes on and he took them off. He wanted to visit the rest of the patients in the recovery room. Finally our escort arrived and we went down to our waiting car. It was very cold; it's nice to have a car with a great heating system. Still grumpy, due to the anesthesia, he keeps changing the radio stations never finding what he wanted. Thank heavens it was a short ride and we were home by 10am.
Tonight's Dinner - turkey, potato, squash,
cranberry sauce was added later for color.
Diet for a while will be everything soft, applesauce, pudding, jello, etc. Some time has past and his demeanor has improved.
6:40 a.m. No, I haven’t missed the store openings on Black Friday, but awake with a start to realize that I had 5 minutes to get to the hospital. Who knows what happened to the alarm. I was out the door in less than 5 minutes and on the road to contend with the black ice. Thank heavens traffic is light and the hospital has valet parking. There is so much paperwork to be done when we arrive. Finally we get into to the pre-op area. Two nurses remembered him from the ICU 16 years ago, one even remember which bed he had been in. It was comforting to be remembered and greeted so fondly. One pre-op nurse let him keep her stethoscope for a while.
"Listening to the beat."He drank the sedative and after it took affect he was wheeled into surgery. He went under quickly. It seemed the procedure took longer than expected, but everything turned out well. Understandably, he was a tad grumpy in recovery. Spitting up a bit of blood. Soon he was being discharged, they brought him a wheelchair. I put the brakes on and he took them off. He wanted to visit the rest of the patients in the recovery room. Finally our escort arrived and we went down to our waiting car. It was very cold; it's nice to have a car with a great heating system. Still grumpy, due to the anesthesia, he keeps changing the radio stations never finding what he wanted. Thank heavens it was a short ride and we were home by 10am.
Tonight's Dinner - turkey, potato, squash,
cranberry sauce was added later for color.
Diet for a while will be everything soft, applesauce, pudding, jello, etc. Some time has past and his demeanor has improved.
