Nurses, Surgeons, and Hospitals, OH MY

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Saturday August 27

Mellow day followed by poker with friends, Pat wins!  what's $3 amongst friends.

Sunday August 28

busy day getting lists of what we  need and what I have to do for Monday's adventures. Need to get up at 4:30 am

go to bed at 8pm

phone rings at 9pm

friend is calling to wish Roger well

that's nice

now must try to get back to sleep

Roger's ambien kicks in Roger snores.

happy he is sleeping

sad that I am not

watch reruns of House Hunter's international

fall asleep on couch

wake up 2 am

go back to bed

fall asleep

alarm goes off at 4:19am, I hit snooze

alarm goes off again, I reset alarm for 5:19 am

alarm goes off, Roger looks at time

"how come its so late, we gotta get moving"

I say nothing

Roger grumbles, grumbles, grumbles

I think about calling Becky and telling her to come pick up Roger, I am going to town to rent a truck and move out

I don't

Roger continues grumbling

Pat contiunes to get ready for hospital, while comtemplating his early demise, decide he needs love anyway and say nothing

comtemplating his demise is too sad, and I almost start to cry and realize I have too much to do and

Roger is ready to go and it is

5:50am

we need to be at hospital by 6:30

since this surgery isn't going to take long, I figure we need to come back to house anyway and we take off for hospital.

arrive at hospital at 6:10am

parking is convinently close

Roger grumbles he can walk

I say nothing, park and we walk together

up to the second floor,

1st desk tells us to go to 2nd desk

2nd desk shows us to the ambulatory surgery area (or something like that)

Roger's special place is area 17

Roger weighs in

166 same as Friday at the hospital

gets his hospital bracelet, has a bar code, Roger is now scanable, I am given a pager

walk to area 17, gets in hospital gown, nurse gets iv in for fluids and antibiotics, no problem

my faith in nurses is renewed, (I called to talk to son and daughter-in-law (Noah and Amy) on Sunday relay preious weeks adventures, Amy reassures me clinc nurses lose touch with things hospital nurses don't, Amy's sharp, love her.

Roger is ready.  It is 7:00am

we wait

nurse checks on Roger

How much longer?

Surgery is scheduled for 8:30.

I am just sooooooo happy we arrived on time

we wait

we wait

they give Roger hydrocodone

THANK YOU!

we wait

Roger mellows out

Nurse comes to take Roger upstairs to surgery prep

she scans him

I go with them upstairs, in an elevator  THANK YOU! (for the elevator that is)

We go to a surgery waiting area (not sure where we were before, this is just closer to OR)

Anatheisiologist comes to talk with us, doc comes to talk to us, nurse scans Roger, and shows me where to wait

Surgery Waiting Area

small place, lots of people

I go downstairs to find breakfast

eggs, country fries, 2 pieces bacon, I find salsa, I am thankful for salsa

get coffee too

eat, head back to 3rd floor Surgery waiting area, small room, I find a chair

I am sitting across from 2 women speaking a foreign language and it is loud and non-stop

it is driving me crazy

I step outside the door stand in the hall, leaning against the wall.  I am across from a lady adminstrator sitting in a glassed in offfice

she steps out, asks if I would like to sit in her office

I say thank you yes

I sit silently in her office, I enjoy the quiet for about 10 minutes, see the foreign people leave,

I thank the lady for the silence and go back to the Surgery Waiting Area

It is quiet, not silent but more quiet than it was

House Hunters is on the TV

I see the computer screen on the wall that shows where the scanable people are, they have different colors when they are at different areas

Roger is #10484 or something like that

Roger is now in surgery, it is 9:00am

I wait, 9:30 nurse calls on phone they are finishing up, Roger's color changes on the computer screen,, the bright green color means he is being moved to post op.

I wait, 10:00 am the doc comes into the Surgery Waiting Area, wants to talk to me

everything went well, there was very little bleeding, Roger will be in post op an hour

I am sent down to 2nd floor area 17. It is sometime around 11 am

Roger arrives at area 17, woozy but okay

We wait.

after 30 minutes nurse asks if Roger would like something for pain

yes, he's a 6 (on the pain scale of 10)

nurse gives hydrocodone

tells us we will have to wait another hour while they monitor him after giving the hydrocodone

we wait

nurse asks if Roger needs to use bathroom

yes

he goes

comes back

nurse calls pharmacy to get Roger a suppy of hydrocodone

nurse tells Roger it is about time to check out and it is time to get dressed

Roger gets dressed, gets in wheelchair, nurse, me and Roger in wheelchair walk to side entrance

I walk fast to go get car (remember, I was able to park close)

get car, get car started, get air conditioner going

pick up Roger

it is 1 pm

we head home

It is 1:30 pm when we get home and I end here, this is getting lengthy and we still have to drive to Tulsa, since we have reserved a hotel room, so we don't have to get up again at an ungodly hour to be in Tulsa at 8:30 am Tuesday

so

yes

there is more to follow