Waiting to go home

Just one cannula to remove and we are out of here......until next time.

At least our boys had fun

Three Hours....

Loretta is back on the ward now and is wide awake as she has been throughout surgery.

Good news she tells me is she thinks they are going to let her go home in a few hours.

Bad news - they failed to find the damn stone!

Somebody Waiting

I am not the only one being allowed to wait in Loretta's side room

And so it begins.....

At approximately 11am (UK time) on the morning of Halloween, Loretta is on her way to the operating theatre. So the wait once again begins - the rough estimate for the surgery length was an hour and a half. This morning they were talking about giving her a spinal anesthetic rather than a general one. Whether or not this affects surgery or recovery time remains to be seen. I am sitting in the car out of the way for a while.

Darkness Falls

Just been and had a meal off the hospital grounds. Outside now in a little garden whilst nurses prepare yet another bed. Loretta getting her own side room now - that put a little smile on her face

Ward 28

Just wrote the ward number down there for my reference let alone anybody else's. Currently waiting in the day room in ward 20 for the actual bed to become available. Right this second blood pressure test going on.

Just Leaving

One hour drive coming up

Phone Call from the hospital

Monday lunchtime - just received a call telling us that although they still want Loretta to come to the hospital tomorrow, the surgery will actually take place on the original scheduled date the following day.

The "minion doc" that called said he had tried to contact us a couple of times last week, got voice mail but apparently did not leave a message (although our voice mail seems to sometimes be a bit screwed up)

The reasons behind coming in a day prior to the surgery are to get the blood sugar and insulin at optimum levels.

He even stated no rush in coming in tomorrow so we shall now head there early afternoon.

Testing

Just making sure that I can still post on this blog with what is about to happen over these next 48hrs - G