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Well, the time came for my husband to go in for his after surgery check up.

He got good news and will not be expected to return until 3 months. He is feeling a lot better than he was before the surgery. His pain is almost totally gone. He seems to have more energy than he did before.

The thing that we are working on now is his blood sugar.

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I know that my husband is getting older. I need to think about getting some of the best multivitamin for men for him.

He has had surgery and is now recovering nicely. The pain that he was in is fading and the soreness is getting smaller and smaller. Soon he will not be having pain from the operation and he will be fully recovered.

We are both looking forward to that day will glee. We had both been worried about the operation since it was located in a very person place. He made it through and now is on the downhill side of it.

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My husband has had his surgery. He came through it with flying colors, until he had 2 seizures in the recovery room.

The doctors decided to keep him for observation. So, around 6 pm he finally got a room and I was able to join him. He got a little sleep, but it was rough since he was having cramps and nausea. I tried to help through the night with getting him clear fluids and jello. He was craving coffee of course. He has drunk the stuff since he was 4 years old.

Since I was not at home, I could not use my breathing machines to sleep. (I have severe sleep apnea). I might get 5 minutes, but then awake with my heart racing and a very light headed feeling. We kept waiting until the doctors came in and even then they were not sure about him going home. Evidently they were not sure if the seizures were as a result of the medicine from the anesthesia, or were a sign of something else.

When they kept giving him physical tests about coordination, it finally sank in that they were making sure that he had not had a clot, or stroke. Finally they figured out that it was all of the stress that he’d had over the last two months from the beginning of November.

They gave us the good news that he could go home, and we went home. After 35 hours without any proper sleep, I was grumpy and a little punch drunk. God was good and we made it home and finally to our very own lumpy bed. YAHOO ! We had our life back.

Through this happening, I learned that caffein and cheddar cheese are my friends. Did I mention a little punch drunk? snicker…..

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While I am waiting, I wonder how people will be notified about someone who is done with their surgery.

I do not know if they will use call center outsourcing, paging, personal contact, PA announcements, or your guess is as good as mine. We have been to the Day Surgery Unit before, for both of us. I went to have an umbilical hernia repaired, he went to have an inguinal hernia repaired. Both times the repair worked and there was no more trouble with the operation site.

This time, they will use lasers to do what is needed. They call it tissue vaporization. EWW At least i know that he will be under full anesthesia while this is going on. He isn’t the only one who is getting nervous.

I have noticed that if it was something for myself, I do not feel as concerned as I do for someone else in the same situation. I hope that does not mean that I am weird, though.

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Tomorrow, he will be operated on. My husband that is.

He has been waiting for this to happen since the beginning of November of 2009. Thank God he has not been waiting 12 months, but it has been long enough. I have a bag ready with stuff to keep me occupied while he is in surgery. If I had any promotional items that I could share, I know there will be a lot of other people waiting also.

He is nervouse about this. It is occurring in a very personal place, so the nervousness is understandable. He is also impatient top get it over with and no longer will he need to be catheterized. I mentioned in earlier posts that he considers it to be another type of torture. Well, time will tell. He is sleeping right now and I hope that he is getting the rest that he needs for tomorrow.

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Finally, we have a date for my husband’s surgery.

JANUARY the 5th.

He has gotten through all of the tests and been approved by the different doctors. It is amazing what is necessary for each surgery. We spent a lot of time at the hospital running around from one area to another. We had started by fasting for the blood tests that we both needed. The test was at 11:30 since he’d had a low blood sugar at 3:30 am and needed to eat something.

We figured that we would be able to get something to eat and then go for the rest that was needed. It didn’t work out. So, between the running from one area to another and not eating, we definitely got our exercise on. Whew, talk about sleeping really good.

Anyway, the surgery is on. Now we call the day surgery on Thursday to get the exact time.

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Well, the on going saga of my husband and his possible surgery goes on.

I was wondering why nothing was happening. So, I called the doctor’s office to find out just what was going on. I managed to talk to a very nice lady who then told me that the doctor was out SICK.

No one told us anything until them. We kept waiting and waiting for someone to call. The secretary, who knew that we had been waiting, never called, she just took her vacation time since the doctor was out sick.

Anger is too mild a word for what I felt when I found this out. The same person who fouled up the first date for his surgery by with-holding information on medicine to stop, couldn’t be bothered to let us know why the surgery wasn’t going to happen any time soon. Never mind all of the pain that he has been going through each day with all of the procedures in catheterization. Anger, oh yeah, but the lady that I was talking to was not at fault. So now we continue to wait, …………..still………………………………………..

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Anyone who has watched NASA get a shuttle ready to be launched, knows what that means.

The cardiologist said that he is okay to go ahead with the surgery. Yippee In fact he said that there is only minimal rick associated with him having surgery. Now, all we have to do is get the anesthesia assessment unit to finish his interview, get the urologist to set a date, and get the surgery done.

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Tomorrow, my husband will undergo some cardiac stress tests.

We are both praying that the tests show he is able to have surgery. We cannot imagine what his life would be like having to be catheterized every day for the rest of his life. horrible

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