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It’s Probably Nothing

Published
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Scott
on February 19, 2008
in Hospital / Surgery
. 1 Comment

I’m not a morning person. If I had my druthers, I’d sleep until 1 or 2 in the afternoon and stay up all night.

So when the alarm went off at 5:30 to get ready to go the surgery center, I had one of those ‘Whoa is me’ moments. I snapped out of it pretty quickly, but it still sucks. Most people my age aren’t waking up to take their wives to the surgery center for the First Annual Colonoscopy.

At the same time, it provided me with a bit of perspective that I always need when I start feeling that way. It could be a whole lot worse.

As I walked back from grabbing coffee this morning, there was an amazing sunrise over San Jose. There was too much urban blight (freeways, light posts, traffic) to grab a decent photo with the camera phone, but the cloud cover was under the mountain tops and the sun came through the splits in the mountains and provided a really pretty backdrop to an odd morning.

It is weird to be blogging while Holly is in surgery. Everyone is sure that things are clear. That this is routine. Just making sure. But that is what they said last time we were here and we all know how that ended.

So we wait. I should get results on the scope in about 30 minutes. We get the results of the PT scan tomorrow afternoon. Like our friend Beth at YouTumor said, it isn’t the tests that we fear, it is the results.

So the waiting game is on. I hope that the surgeon is more of a morning person than I am.

5 Things I’m Happy About:
Best surgeon in the area working on my wife
Good insurance covers an expensive operation for $60
Good job provides good insurance
Kids are with grandpa having an awesome time
It is February and it has been in the 70’s and sunny the past week and a half

P.S. I just realized that my writing is pretty terrible until after lunch.

2 Mags & Regis

Published
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Scott
on August 10, 2007
in Hospital / Surgery
. 2 Comments

It’s Port Day!!!

Holly is in surgery now. I was going to hang around, but with 2 gossip magazines and Regis on in the waiting room, I was playing 4th fiddle and not really needed. It’s at least 3 hours and the OR was pretty backed up. They were saying about an hour delay. She demanded that I go home and get some work done (I guess they are going to want us to pay for all of this somehow). Kind of hard to focus knowing that they are going to be slipping a tube that makes it easier for her body to accept poison into a main artery.

Obviously, she got solace from knowing that despite it all, she is in better shape than Britney, LiLo, or the babies from Nambia not adopted by Angelina Jolie.

LiLo

Photo by the always awesome Queen of all Media, Perez Hilton.

Hidey Ho

Published
by
Scott
on May 31, 2007
in Hospital / Surgery and Humor
. 3 Comments

Houston, we have some output. It looks like the second surgery was successful. I’ve never had so many people ask me about my wifes bathroom habits. It’s kind of weird in that way you talk about your kids learning to use the toilet.

Keep in mind that it has been 30+ days since she last used her large intestine & gone to the bathroom. It takes a while for those muscles to get in order and it causes a lot of pain. Thankfully, she is running to the bathroom a lot.

Holly is up and walking around, doing laps around the floor. She still gets tired very quickly. One thing that her PT pointed out the other day was that prior to the first surgery, she was running and doing yoga daily. For the past 30 days, the most exercise she has gotten has been pushing the PCA. She has lost a lot of weight and has had a lot of atrophy. She is slowly, but steadily getting back in the swing of things. We went for a nice walk around the 3rd floor tonight. We went for a really long, double lapper, last night.

I love my dates with her. It is like being 15 again and only getting to spend 30 or 40 minutes a day with your true love. They are giggly and intimate and terribly depressing when visiting hours are up.

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