"What time would you like to schedule your operation?" (You mean I actually have a choice? Well, let's get this thing going!) "What is her first availability?" "Let's see ... looks like next Wednesday, the 18th." "What time?" "We won't know what time until you get a phone call the day before."
Well, okay then. Here we go. T-minus 6 and counting.
Notes from the pre-op instructions:
- No blood thinners from now until surgery.
- No multi-vitamins until surgery.
- No more coQ-10.
- Zi-cam seems to be okay.
- Nothing to eat after 11 PM on the 17th. But wait ...
- Drink 12 ounces of Gatorade 12 hours before surgery.
- Drink another 12 ounces 4 hours prior to surgery.
- Take 1000mg (if my math serves me correctly, that would equal 1 gram) 4 hours before surgery.
- We can park on the second floor of the south parking garage that states "reserved for surgery patients."
- Enter in the south lobby, turn left, go to elevators at end of hallway and take them to second floor.
- Straight ahead to check in (heart palpitations...).
- Leave all valuables at home.
- Take off all jewelry ... rings, piercings, etc etc.
- Wear loose clothing that buttons up the front.
- No pathology will be given over phone.
- Staying overnight.
MyChart is my frenemy. Timely information, and sometimes too much or too little to suit me.
My sister, Diane, has volunteered to stay with me for the first part of my recovery. I'm so grateful. She may as well be a home health aide with as much as she's done for our parents the past few years. So now she is stepping down a generation and helping me.
As we go into this next week, my prayer list goes like this:
- Bravery
- Trust in the LORD
- Peace
- Flights at a good price and time for Diane
- Pain management without dependence
- No infections
- All cancer GONE!!!
- Ministry to those with whom I'll come in contact
I purposely didn't put a link to this blog today. If you are reading it, you have determined to be a prayer warrior, and for that I am SO grateful! Thank you.
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