Tonight's photo provided by Nathan says a lot...I think that you can see that one of us had surgery and that the other one spent a long day sitting in a chair by his bedside! So another surgery is down in the record books. We got there around 9:30am and got home around 4:30pm. Woody's surgeon was behind schedule due to his first surgery of the day taking longer than expected...so all his other surgeries were behind for the rest of the day by an hour or two. Nurses and the surgeon kept applolgizing to the patients and thanking them for their patience! Woody's nurse said that Dr. Thomason is known for keeping on schedule...so this was a rare day...lucky us! He was still doing surgeries when we left. I think he said that his first started at 7:45am. The nurses say that Thursday is his day for surgery and that the day is usually full. Woody is hurting more than he did his last surgery...but then this is laproscopic surgery. Melany says that laproscopic surgery hurts worse at the start than old fashioned surgery...but that the pain goes away sooner...Woody is hoping that is true...about the going away part. The surgeon said that he found that adhesions from former surgeries are what blocked is catheter...he cleaned up the catheter and then attempted to place it in "a fold" that would keep it away from adhesions. They tried the catheter line and it did flow once again. Time will tell for how long! He did say that if it gets blocked again that Woody would have to become a hemodilysis patient permanently. Again, time will tell! When we got home we had a message from Woody's PD nurse wanting to make an appointment to start flushing the line. It was too late to call them this afternoon, I will call in the morning. Flushing the line will begin right away and full time PD will begin in a couple of weeks...once he has healed enough to not have any leaks from the surgery places! We also got a call a few minutes ago from the hemodialysis nurse/scheduler saying that there was an opening at 6:30 in the morning and would he like it. He said "no." We were glad that his appointment was at 3pm so he would have a little more recovery time. After one of his last surgeries he had to be at dialysis at 5am...just too early the day after surgery! And, he didn't even hesitate to say no to the 6:30 time. Hopefully he will have a good night. He hasn't moved much since getting back in his recliner except to pull his throw over him. He said that his eyes don't want to open. He's watching Wheel of Fortune...sort of. Nathan did come to help us get in the house, but I wanted to give it a try since I will have to do it tomorrow. I managed to get it him up the ramp fairly easily by backing him up. I need the big wheels to get over bumps...like at the start of the ramp and into the house over the threshold into the house. I find it too hard to tip the wheel chair to get the little front wheels up and over bumps. But I did it so I know I can do it tomorrow when he goes to dialysis. I also wanted Nathan here in case Woody was wobbly when he transferred from car to wheelchair and from wheelchair to recliner. Woody did great with the transfer part...he wasn't any more wobbly than usual!! He was awake when he came back to the room and didn't keep telling us that he wanted to go back to sleep...so he woke up easier this time. Really the main problem with this surgery was the extra wait time prior to the surgery...and that couldn't be helped so all in all it has been a pretty positive day of surgery. Now to have positive recovery time! Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. I am sure that is what got us through another surgery day! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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