Neverending Pre-op

We survived the Pre-op today. There's no other way to put it. The good news is the new hospital facilities are pretty amazing. The bad news is ....well here's an example... no one really knows where the new radiology is and once we found it radiology was still working out the idiosyncrasies of the new X-ray machines. Riiiigggghhhhtttt. So what was supposed to take 2 to 3 hrs (and it should be closer to 2 since it's all in the same building now)...took 5 hours. Yes that's what I said. 5. Hours. Wow that's a long day.

Other than the 'transition' issues though - well, and a traumatic blood draw - all went well. All things Jacob checked out fine. We are good to go Monday. And Jacob was a champ. With a few toys and his cadillac stroller to nap in, he had a fine day (luckily the blood draw trauma was at the very end).

We spoke to the surgeon and his PA and got a lot more info about next week. The basics: We will arrive at 6:15am Monday.... they want to start the surgery between 7 and 7:30 and the surgery should be over 3 hrs later. Jacob will then go straight to the PICU for 1 to 2 days....then to a regular room for 2 to 3 days.

Until then we plan to have a nice, quiet weekend.

EKG

X-Rays

Chillin' in one of many waiting rooms