Monday, May 18, 2009

Now in the family surgery waiting area. . .

For some reason, my laptop will not connect to the wifi network here at the hospital (others are having problems, too), so I've latched on to the Mayo computer for a quick update.

We saw far too early this morning (4:15AM - yikes), but we made it to the hospital at 5:30 and made it through the patient admissions process without any hiccups. Dad was pretty nervous - and I think would have liked it if I would have turned the car around. The escort came up for him around 6:45AM (side note: the escort has worked here 35 years, and walks around 10 miles per day walking patients/wheeling patients to the OR), and per the message board Dad is still in the surgery holding area for patients.

The nurse communicators are starting to come up and talk to families giving out room numbers, talking about where they are in the process, etc. Really nice service. They're connected to the OR and will get paged when there's any updates to give the family. There's also a computer screen with Dad's random number that we can watch and see when status changes (from admissions to MRI, to the OR, in Recovery, etc.). Got Mom one of the recliners in the waiting room (a coveted spot when a long day awaits), and already have breakfast out of the way.

We should get an update early afternoon and get to see him once he's in his ICU room. I'll update when I can, but if I can't get connected, it likely will be this evening before I update the blog. I promised Dad that I'd keep everyone posted today, so I intend to keep my promise.

More later - thanks for the positive thoughts and prayers today as we are going to be one step closer to the right treatment.

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