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Just gone 11pmn here, Tuesday night.
Well, it went okay, last night he was very woozy, and the anaesthetic was still in his system. Today, hooboy.
Saw the surgeon today. In his words, if you were to rate the complicatedness of an op 1-10, Tex's would have been at 20.
I had no idea that an inflamed gall bladder could adhere to EVERYTHING, but it did. Bowel, intestines, liver, duodenum, *everything*.
They cut out as much of the gall bladder as they could, and cleared out as many stones etc that they could, too. Essentially that had to dissect everything in that area to get it away from everything else.
Mr Khoo, the consultant, seemed pretty pleased with how it all went, and not too alarmed at the levels of pain. We're alarmed, though, but trying to be sensible.
They need to regulate his pain meds so that he can eat, because it seems that the spasms hit JUST as food gets delivered. Sitting up triggers it too, as does walking. A nurse asked to do a standing blood pressure test and both of us absolutely refused. There was no way he could get to his feet, and if they thought I was going to let them trigger yet another spasm...no way.
He's suffering hellish pain, and though I know it will pass, this is very hard for him, and very hard for me to watch. But watch I will, because that's what we do, right?
Well, it went okay, last night he was very woozy, and the anaesthetic was still in his system. Today, hooboy.
Saw the surgeon today. In his words, if you were to rate the complicatedness of an op 1-10, Tex's would have been at 20.
I had no idea that an inflamed gall bladder could adhere to EVERYTHING, but it did. Bowel, intestines, liver, duodenum, *everything*.
They cut out as much of the gall bladder as they could, and cleared out as many stones etc that they could, too. Essentially that had to dissect everything in that area to get it away from everything else.
Mr Khoo, the consultant, seemed pretty pleased with how it all went, and not too alarmed at the levels of pain. We're alarmed, though, but trying to be sensible.
They need to regulate his pain meds so that he can eat, because it seems that the spasms hit JUST as food gets delivered. Sitting up triggers it too, as does walking. A nurse asked to do a standing blood pressure test and both of us absolutely refused. There was no way he could get to his feet, and if they thought I was going to let them trigger yet another spasm...no way.
He's suffering hellish pain, and though I know it will pass, this is very hard for him, and very hard for me to watch. But watch I will, because that's what we do, right?
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