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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Emergency surgery

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Steve was throwing up at 5:30am yesterday morning. Then at around 9:30 he calls me at the office and says, "Come home. NOW." I found him at the parking lot of the apartment doubled over in pain and throwing up into a plastic bag.

I took him to the hospital where we found out later that he needs to get his gall bladder removed. He's scheduled for surgery this afternoon.

It was a long wait to finally get a room (we got into the ER at around 10am and didn't get into a room until 8pm, which was only a temporary room. We got into his permanent room at about 9:30pm). I didn't really mind the wait, though. What was important to me was that we were at a place where the people were in a position to help Steve if he was hurting. And what better place than the ER, right? :-)

I've researched gall bladder removal surgery and I was relieved to find out it's not as big a procedure as it used to be. They use lasers now and if all goes well, Steve gets to go home today. The procedure takes about an hour.

I also didn't realize that you could do without your gall bladder. I thought the appendix and one kidney were the only organs you could do without.

Oh, I've got to tell you something really funny that happened at the hospital :-). I was dressed for work, you see, and today I had a green sweater, a brown paisley skirt, and a lovely brown shawl that Judy had given me about a year ago. I've always gotten compliments on that shawl. Judy's really got a good eye when it comes to things like that :-).

Anyway, Steve was being wheeled over to the ultrasound department so they could figure out what was wrong with him. He's laying in bed, waiting for his turn outside the room, grimacing in pain, and the nurses come out. The nurse prepares to check Steve's records, then she looks at me.

"Ohhh what a PRETTY shawl!"
"Why, thank you :-)!"
"(nurse touches the shawl) I've seen these around, but I never realized they could look so pretty. Do you wrap that around your neck?"
"(I demonstrate how to put the shawl on) No, it goes over your head."
"Oh that's so pretty!"

And Steve is watching all this thinking, "I'm in pain here and who gets the attention? My wife and her shawl."

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