We were up at 5:30 (ugh) and out the door by 6:15. It usually takes a little less than an hour to get there, but there was notice that a part of the freeway was going to have some road construction where we'd have to stop and wait for a pilot car. Well turns out that didn't start until 7am, so we sailed right through haha. But, dh wanted to be there a little early anyway, to use the bathroom beforehand.
We were there 2 hours for a 10 minute procedure, LOL. Literally - they wheeled him out of the room and 10 minutes later were rolling him back in and waking him up. The doctor said nothing was found to cause his issues going on. She did see a couple of stomach polyps, but those are usually totally benign and a little bit of erosion in his pre-pyloric region. She removed the polyps and did a biopsy in the erosion area and those will go to pathology, just as a matter of routine. She said she sees the erosion in that area all the time.
So, now we wait until he can get the MRI done, to see if they can tell anything more from his pancreas, what is going on. They can't get him in for that until Dec 4th.
He was starving by the time we got home a little after 10:30 since he hadn't had anything to eat in about 15 hours. Then he went back to bed for a nap. About an hour later, I joined him and took about a 90 minute nap. 5:30 is too early for me ;)
I probably could have just worked the rest of today, only missing a couple of hours, but might was well use up some of my 300+ hours of PTO. I'm just grateful we got this procedure and the MRI to be done next month, in before the end of the year and it will all be covered 100%.
Once, I arrived at the appointed time, expecting a delay. However, three hours later, I was annoyed. It seems that there was an emergency and, of course, I had to wait four hours. While I do understand the emergency, they had to keep sedating me.
ReplyDeleteat least they didn't sedate him until they were ready to take him back for the procedure.
DeleteI know it is annoying to be there so long for something so short! But I am glad you understand the need to be on time/early. Some people do NOT. I am glad it's all covered too.
ReplyDeleteWe are always early, LOL. Being there first thing in the morning though, kind of makes you wonder what the delay was, haha
DeleteWhen I was booking surgery - we always had folks come 2hrs ahead of their procedure time. Any one thing that takes time, even for the first patient of the day - means everything runs late! Esp if DH was not the first - if he was the 2nd, maybe the first took a few mins longer, etc.
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