It’s 2am and we just got back home. The surgeon that removed Ana’s spleen (and the one that had her go into the ER tonight – errr, last night) actually came in around 1:30 and talked with us and did a quick checkup. He said that the pain wasn’t due to the gas used in surgery because the xray showed no gas pockets anywhere. So, the mystery shoulder pain remains that for now.
Time for some sleep!
To the hospital. Tonight Ana started experiencing very painful shoulder pain that was making it painful to breathe, so her surgeon advised her to come into the ER to get checked out. They’ve done EKGs, xrays, and the like and everything looks ok. It sounds like the best guess is the gas they put in her for the surgery on monday causing the shoulder pain. We had been told about this, but it had sounded like that should have been done with 24-48 hours after surgery (whereas this started tonight).
So we’ve been here for a couple hours, she has gotten more pokes and prods. Hopefully we’ll be going home soon, the pain is slowly subsiding it seems.
They did do a blood count on her – she has one scheduled for tomorrow – and they said they couldn’t get a reliable platelet count due to clumping BUT they said there were a normal amount of them. Whew.
We’re both tired, just want to get some sleep (it’s 1am right now).
She’s recovery now, surgery went well. Can’t wait to get in and see her!
Just got a phone call from surgery, Ana is stable and doing well and the surgeon has started working on her (roughly 25 minutes ago).
On a side note, there’s gotta be a better way to notify me of updates. The waiting room librarian walking over and saying she’s going to forward a call to me, scared the HELL out of me. Honestly, it felt like my heart was going to jump staright out of my chest. Damn, gotta calm down now.
Well she’s in surgery now. In roughly 2 hours that evil spleen will be no more!
184,000, IV getting started and the surgeon is en-route.
Hi everyone -
Ana is all checked in here at St. John’s Hospital. The splenectomy is scheduled for 3pm so we’re waiting in a little hallway with curtains called pre-aenestesia.
