Surgery day

6:45. We're sitting with Dad in his room (not ICU!). He's looking good and talking to us and his nurse a bit. He looks really good considering what he's been through. In a little pain, but not too bad. The nurses are making sure he's all hooked up properly and that things are flowing in and out as they should. A long day, thank you do much for your prayers as you've shared this journey with us. I'll update more tomorrow.

5:47. Still waiting for Dad to move from recovery. I don't really have anything to update, but every other time I've started an update, something has happened, so we'll see if this works.

3:29. Got a chance to talk to Dr. Wood and everything went well with the surgery. Just exactly as expected.  Praise to the Lord. He may be able to avoid the ICU altogether, but will have 7 days with the NG tube and 2-3 days with the neck and chest drains no matter where he's at.  He's still in recovery, we're waiting relatively patiently to see him when we get the OK.


3:01 p.m.  Still waiting to talk to Dr Wood. Dad's been in recovery since 1:30. Assume they'll move him to the ICU pretty soon.

1:23 p.m. We hear that Dad is done with surgery. Dr. Wood has to see another patient but will come and talk to us as soon as he's done there.

12:26. Still waiting. Maybe thinking about lunch, but not really.

10:04 Back from breakfast and a tour of the gift shop to a call from the nurse letting us know that Dad is in surgery. It took a little while to make sure all the scopes were placed correctly. Not sure exactly what time he went in but the surgery itself will likely be 4 hours from here.

8:03 am. I've moved over to the surgical waiting room where there's a board to update families on where patients are. Next to Dad's code it still says "arrived" so I'm pretty sure that means they haven't taken him into the OR yet. Also, Mom is still "back" there with him, she will come find me in this waiting room when ...  Ah, she just walked in

8:11. Dad's status has changed to "patient in the OR". Mom said he had a bit of a "vagal event" when administering the epidural, but the anesthioligists were watching him and got him through the feeling of faintness before proceeding.  They assured Mom (and Dad) that things were fine to proceed. So, now the waiting begins. I think mom and I are going to see if we can find some breakfast.

Good morning. It is 5:56 am and Dad is checking in at surgery reception. We were up early this morning to drive through a bit of rain to get to Seattle. We all got a bit of sleep lat night, but it's going to be a long day no matter what.  I'm writing from my phone, so please forgive the many spelling errors there are sure to be

6:40. Dad and Mom were just taken back to pre-op. I'll check in w the desk in a bit to move to the official waiting room. Sudoku and jumble completed.