Surgery Today
All is well. Bob had what is known as "Turp", or Terp or Trp or something. This was to remove prostate or some of it, to free up the bladder to release urine, because if not he will have kidney infections (and he had, last week). Prostate is mucked up with cancer.
He did not know if he could be sedated for the surgery because of his other heart problems, but they did, and he lived. This is good. But he said he woke up screaming, because this is also kinda painful.
Surgery scheduled for 8:30 - "be there at 7:00" - ok we were. He went into surgery at 10:07. Got us again, didn't they?
Julie was there with us when they sent him into the "short term" room that he is in. I had to laugh, for while we were talking to his nurse Julie had gone to the other side of his bed and was carefully examining his catheter line, inch by inch, holding it up so she could see it, etc.. so I thought I should tell his nurse "she's behaving like this because she's a nurse!" (and not because she's always into mischief as you might think), Not to worry. The nurse had already gathered this information from other clues. Are all you nurses like this when family members are hospitalized? (this is a good thing in my opinion)
Julie had been at the hospital since midnight the night before when she got off work, because her father-in-law (Jim) is 2 floors down from Bob, with liver failure, my God. all to do with his service in Vietnam (agent orange, maybe?). I think he may be going on the transplant list(!), but he is very sick, so Bob is actually the lucky one today. Every grandpa that Alex and Drew have was in jeopardy today and it makes you think how you would go about explaining THAT, if things went wrong. How horrible. and Jim is just a big, happy guy who does not deserve this, at all.
What the heck is going on? All us poor dumb hillbillies need to know.
He did not know if he could be sedated for the surgery because of his other heart problems, but they did, and he lived. This is good. But he said he woke up screaming, because this is also kinda painful.
Surgery scheduled for 8:30 - "be there at 7:00" - ok we were. He went into surgery at 10:07. Got us again, didn't they?
Julie was there with us when they sent him into the "short term" room that he is in. I had to laugh, for while we were talking to his nurse Julie had gone to the other side of his bed and was carefully examining his catheter line, inch by inch, holding it up so she could see it, etc.. so I thought I should tell his nurse "she's behaving like this because she's a nurse!" (and not because she's always into mischief as you might think), Not to worry. The nurse had already gathered this information from other clues. Are all you nurses like this when family members are hospitalized? (this is a good thing in my opinion)
Julie had been at the hospital since midnight the night before when she got off work, because her father-in-law (Jim) is 2 floors down from Bob, with liver failure, my God. all to do with his service in Vietnam (agent orange, maybe?). I think he may be going on the transplant list(!), but he is very sick, so Bob is actually the lucky one today. Every grandpa that Alex and Drew have was in jeopardy today and it makes you think how you would go about explaining THAT, if things went wrong. How horrible. and Jim is just a big, happy guy who does not deserve this, at all.
What the heck is going on? All us poor dumb hillbillies need to know.
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