The whole story that led up to what got us here is too long to write, but let me say that I should be getting the insurance payment that his PMD gets! Anyways, we headed to Rex to check in this past Tuesday morning. After going through registration and being asked, you have a different last name?, and your address is different? and you are???? Yes, the girlfriend!, we finally got called by Stephanie. Then come to find out Stephanie is a new hire with Same Day Surgery and that she went through orientation with Laura from the ER! Ok, she was already in the good picture. Stephanie got Chris settled, did his H & P, started his IV and gave him his lovely gown and TED's! Yes, Chris didn't know what TED's were, but oh how sexy he looked. He at first wouldn't let me take a picture of him with them on, but Chris.. its ME! I take pics of EVERYTHING! I even got a picture of him and Stephanie, I think Stephanie thought I was a little 'off', but who isn't.. remember I work in the ER! As you can see he was having fun with it.
I ran an errand for Chris and then came back to the waiting area, for another 2 1/2 hours. Chris gave me the password for the computer...but seems it didn't work! I tried everything but nothing worked. So I read magazines, read the newspaper, surfed the internet on the IPhone and then I saw the back side of Dr. Maddox. I yelled 'Dr. Maddox'. He turned and said 'what are you doing here?'. I stated 'it's me your looking for' as he pulls paper out of his pocket, I said 'you have my other half in there'. He says, 'why didn't he tell me?' as I replied 'would it have made a difference?'. He introduced me to a new MD in their group Dr. Moreno, and then explained the procedure and what he did and his POC. He stated he was heading to Recovery 1 and would be there between 60-90 minutes and then when he got to Recovery 2 I could see him.
It was close to the 90 minutes when I finally got to go back. Chris was pretty much groggy but seemed to be glad it was over. Esther was his RN in recovery and she was nice as well. He did receive 20mg MsO4 along with some Toradol. Next was the process of eating, drinking and bathroom-ing, and ambulating before we could go home. He did tolerate some Coke and crackers..which was great, and then we got him up to walk to the bathroom. He tried and tried but no such luck. Next came the bladder scanner... 119ml in the bladder, which is almost nothing... so Esther called Dr. Maddox and he said to send him home but if he didn't urinate by 1900 then go to the ER. So I told Chris we would stop and pick up a catheter on the way out, just in case... I got him up, got dressed and this time he at least let me take a picture of his sexy socks! (I really think it was because of the meds).
Now we start the process of 'healing'. He has been out of work this past week and is to follow up with Dr. Maddox on Tuesday. We did change his top dressing the other day d/t some drainage, but underneath the incision line looked great and the steri-strips were holding up well. He is still sore and certain things he has to be careful of, but hopefully each day that goes by, is a day moving forward and decreased 'soreness'.
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