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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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Well, my husband has gotten the go ahead for his surgery. We are still waiting for the doctor’s office to call back with a date for it.

I hope that there are no more foul ups. He is very tired of the catheter and the treatments that he has needed. I do not blame him on that. I feel as if I am torturing him each time it needs to be done. I realize that it is necessary, but that does not make it htat much easier for either of us.

At least now we have a possible end in sight.

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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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I know that is a strange title for an article, but it states my feelings.

My husband was supposed to be operated on December 10. It did not happen. we went to the Anesthesia assessment unit with my husband for his pre-op interview. It went okay until the nurse verified that he had stopped his Plavix and daily aspirin. Well, we were not told that was necessary. The information that we got from the secretary did not include that little bombshell.

Well, the operation was canceled. Then my husband was told to visit a cardiologist. We did that. Now he has to under go a thallium stress test. It is not until the 17th of December. One whole week after he was supposed to be operated on. The continued waiting is getting worse. The new operation is not even mentioned, yet. The cardiologist is going on vacation the same day of the test and will not be back until the 22nd. So, my husband is scheduled with another cardiologist the day after the test, on the 18th.

Meanwhile each day, is the procedure where my husband is catheterized at least 3 xs a day with accompanying pain each and every time. He suffers daily cramping inside his gut. He has pain almost all of the time either from hurt after the cramp, or from the procedure itself.

I could scream.

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Well, my husband was supposed to be operated on on December 10th.

It was fouled up. The secretary ‘forgot’ to give all of the information to us. My husband was supposed to stop 2 medicines for a week before the operation, and we were never told of this. Now, he has to go through the cardiologist the day after he was supposed to be operated on and we do not know when the operation will be.

Yes, I am GROWLING HERE. He has to go through unnecessary pain every day that should be ending soon. Instead he will be going through it for at least one week longer. It makes me wonder what else the secretary fouled up.

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Well, yesterday, he lost it. The catheter is finally out and he is better.

He will be having surgery in a week or three to fix the problem he has that has been causing all of the problems. At first it was an infection, then it was kidney stones (it would have been nice if it was loose diamonds, they can be sold to pay bills), then we find out it is guy problems. OY VEY

Well, hopefully in a month it will be taken care of and he won’t have all of the trouble anymore. I am looking forward to it now. We took a nap and were able to hang onto each other again. Of course it will be a while until we catch up on all of the sleep we lost.

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