Surgery day

We left home around 6:00 and made good time. We stopped for gas and still made it to the hospital by 7:20. We sucessfully found parking and the same day surgery waiting room and proceeded to wait.... Finally we were taken back to the inner room and given lovely new clothes to wear and hooked up to an IV. They were sucessful on the first try which is always nice. We shared a room with three or four others that seemed in worse shape than Chris. Chris watched a show on building a fifty five story dam in Europe but he didn't get to finish the building project as we were taken to another room. Here They called over the walkie talkie asking for a volunteer to come shave a male patient's upper extremity. After the shaving Chris noticed his arm was much colder. He was also hooked up to compression leggings to squeeze his legs every few seconds. And the Doctor came in and became pretty ticked off because his paperwork hadn't arrived from his office. Not a good sign. But the paperwork was redone and the H and P found and the surgery was still on. They kept assuring us this would not compromise his care in any way.... After meeting the anesthesist and nurse Chris was wheeled off and I headed to the waiting room... for more waiting... three hours later I followed Chris to yet another room. Now he was in a cast and sling. He was hot instead of cold and very thirsty. After about two hours we were headed home. The first stop was a Starbucks for a carmel frapachino and the second stop was to Kaiser in Longview for his pain meds. Then blessed home.

Thanks for all your prayers.