Friday, September 5, 2008

Surgery

Thursday
7:30 pm - johnathan goes to sleep
Friday:
12:00 am - johnathan cannot eat or drink anything until after the surgery
5:00 am - i wake up to eat and get ready
6:00 am - i wake up johnathan to prepare him for surgery (steri bath, etc).
6:30 am - arrive at Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH)
7:30 am - johnathan is taken back. i am called back before he is wheeled to surgery around 7:50
11:30 pm - i am called to speak with dr. duke. everything went well in surgery, he explains the procedure and external fixator.
12:30 - johnathan is back in the ASU (Ambulatory Surgical Unit). "Enjoying" crackers and a mountain dew, and cracking jokes with the nurse (the same joke four times actually... morphine works wonders).
2:00 pm - discharged from the hospital. Of course, it is raining outside.

In the hospital, all he could talk about was going home and how even though he was in pain he was doing fine. As soon as we got home, he passed out.

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