Surgery Update #1

Our surgeon, Dr. Boyle, says that everything went as planned today and that the surgery was successful.

We went into the hospital around 10am and Jenny went through pre-op for a couple hours, meeting nurses and attendants and signing forms.  Around noon she moved to the operating room (the OR if you're in the know).  Surgery took roughly 3.5 hours but it wasn't until around 5:00 that she had recovered sufficiently to see anybody.

Recovering from the general anesthesia hasn't been easy thus far.  Jenny felt nauseous a few times even though she's only had a couple nibbles of Saltines over the past 24 hours.  The doctors ramped up the meds to fix it and that makes her sleepy.  She's been fortunate in that pain has been mild so that's less of an issue.  Another thing that turned out well is her voice -- sometimes people that get her surgery struggle to speak for a few days but she is already talking clearly.  Tonight she'll sleep in the recovery room and hopefully will wake up tomorrow morning feeling much better (and very hungry).

Becky and Mike took the kids today, which was a big help because it enabled me to just hang out near the hospital.  They made the mistake of ordering only a singe pizza for dinner though.  The kids demolished it, leaving them with only a single slice each.  Lesson learned, Rowan and Lucy can eat!

Tomorrow I'll swing by the hospital in the morning and see how Jenny is doing.  The plan is for her to come home around 9 or 10am.  My last chore before bedtime is to get the French Open set up on TiVo so she can watch tomorrow.  She or I will post an update tomorrow.