Surgery Day

This is the secretary writing. Russ/Grandpa was scheduled to go to surgery at 12:30pm. This meant no food, no water (and no morphine according to him, but I'm not sure about that). He called about 3:30pm, still waiting in pre-op and joked he'd been waiting there in pre op two days :-) I would have felt the same. Worse, it was actually 7:30pm when Almeda called me to say they'd finally started his surgery. Karen arranged with the doctor to have him call on her cell phone when it was over so she could take Almeda back to her house for a little rest after the stress of waiting all day for any minute to go to surgery. They went back expecting a call, but Karen finally called the nurses to find out and reached a post op nurse about 10pm who was too busy to talk, but confirmed he was in post op. About 10:30pm the doctor called Karen's home phone and told her the surgery went fine. We hope it will be just a few days and he'll be out of the hospital. Posted by secretary with permission, but unseen as yet by author who hopefully is sleeping at last.