This morning was spent at the Hoag Surgical Center on Sand Canyon Rd in Irvine, CA. My patient and calm driver, Dick Bednar, picked me up a little after 7am, just as we returned from our morning walk. I checked in at the facility at 7:40am for my 8am appointment and had to fill out papers identical to those I did by phone yesterday. Because I had done that, I did not take my medical file, knowing they already had all that information. Finally about 8:45am they took me back to the pre-op room with all the individual cubicles draped in tasteful cloth curtains.
These are different than those I photographed last June.
And the side curtains were different than the front curtains.
but it gives me a chance to see what goes on in a operating"lobby". I was right across from the organizational hub (nurses station?) which usually had two or three people working. There were only three males, all in surgical outfits, who came and went. Finally after laying ready to go in my bed since 8:45am they took me into surgery about 1030am. The procedure takes about 20 minutes, then I had be in bed to decompress. So, about 11:30am we were on the freeway home.
Poor Dick is a trooper, waiting all that time in the parking lot.
I slept off and on all day. Took KoKo out for a piddle and we did half a walk this evening - about a thousand steps added to the 2000 this morning.
I am not hungry but ate some noodle soup. Expect I will wake up starving in the morning.
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4 comments:
I hope you feel a lot better after your procedure. I think they need some colorful quilts in the rooms.
Glad it went well, and hope it helps quickly and lasts long. It’s good to have friends like Dick, isn’t it? Dottie
Heres to another year year of feeling good. Hospitals will not use quilts because they can not be thrown in the washing machine repeated times. I offered one of my encrusted beauties to our local wound center after the wonderful time they spent healing me but they cannot accept such gifts. I would have to pay for a plexiglass frame to cover it and it is a big piece. Oh well.
I was just reading about caregiver (doctors, nurses) burnout, which is due in part to having to see so many patients, but I would think that 8 a.m. would be a good time to schedule because they wouldn't get backed up so early. Guess it doesn't pay to think. I thought it was bad that they took until 8:45 to take you in; then I read how long you waited. I hope you weren't apprehensive, but simply looking forward to relief.
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