Blog of Random Thoughts
6:30 – I am waiting in the surgery admission room now. It is interesting how many people are here first thing in the morning. The atmosphere here is much different than last time. A lot of the people this morning have a support person with them. Not everyone is here for overnight, but people have…
Today I spoke with the surgeon and the washing from last week is all clear with no signs of cancer there. The CT scans from a couple of weeks ago are normal as well, so we will proceed with the surgery. He is anticipating taking out 50 to 75% but he is going to leave…
The kids will be going to my parents for the beginning of the week as I need to be at the hospital for 6am. Last week when Xavier tried to connect his laptop for school he could not because of the security that I had setup on the home network. This morning we drove over…
Yesterday I had my first surgery. It was originally suppose to be at 8am, but was moved to 11:20. I am all right with that since I would have had to get up at 4:45am to start getting ready. I had to take my medication by 5am, and then not have anything to drink from…
Yesterday when I came in for pre-admisson there was someone at the entrance asking for money. I never carry cash so did not give him any. The lady behind me asked him what he needed the money for and he said for some food at Tim Hortons. She proceeded to give him enough money so…
Tomorrow I go to the hospital for my 3 hr pre-admission. I need to remember to bring my note book and to write everything down. During this time I have some bloodwork and meet some people. I am not sure what to expect. If it was a Thursday I would have gone in a suit….
Yesterday I received a phone call from my doctor telling me about some of the results from my CT. He saw that my colon was inflamed and asked if I had pain on my right hand side. I had replied no and he was not too concerned about proceeding with the surgery on Wednesday. He…