Thursday, November 19, 2009

Surgery & Two More Transfusions

Yesterday morning, the found that Mom's hemoglobin leveled had dropped significantly again causing her to need 2 more pints of blood. Also, she is having another endoscopy right now so they can check to see if the ulcer is bleeding again.

As for her back surgery. Yesterday was a long day of waiting. Mom was asleep almost the entire day which was actually good because she has to keep her arm perfectly straight during the transfusions and when she was awake, she was moving all over the place and setting off the machine. I finally asked the nurse if I could push the "restart" button instead of calling him every time. He said he didn't mind doing it but then the next time I called he said "you push the button." After a while when Mom would hear the beep, she would immediately straighten her arm and say, "sorry, honey."

First we were told the surgery would be at 10am then "late morning" then 1pm then around 2pm we were told 5pm. Well, they finally started the surgery at 6:15pm. The surgeon came to see us in the waiting room around 6:45 to tell us he was done. He told us that the bone was very soft, as they suspected.

She was knocked out from the anesthesia for the rest of the night last night but Dad said she was wide awake and alert this morning but still confused. As I said, she is have an endoscopy right now. I am glad it's being done early because she hasn't eaten since Tuesday night. They are supposed to get her up at least 3 times today. The internal medicine doctor told us yesterday that their goal is to release her by the weekend. We would really like that, too, as long is she is more mobile and the GI problems are under control.

Thanks for all your prayers, well-wishes, calls and even visits. I ran into an old friend at the hospital yesterday and he said something about how that stinks that my parents are not home where "their" friends can see them. I was happy to tell him that MY friends and Seth's family have stepped in by visiting them and even sending flowers. That has meant so much to them and also to me. God is good and continues to amaze me.

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