The Morning After

Its 7:30 am and Jon has already had a CT scan, breakfast and a meeting with Dr. Goswami. He had a good night with minimal nausea. His only complaint was the nurses waking him up every two hours to check his vitals. He still hasn't experience any pain but has a little nausea and is somewhat woozy. He just went back to sleep after eating breakfast.

The nurses and doctors have been great and we are, of course, particularly fond of Dr. Goswami. Jon made a point of telling him never to send another patient to the oncologist, Dr. Raoul (remember the one who spent the entire office visit telling Jon this procedure was a waste of time since he was going to die anyway, even though he's already outlived all of the original predictions?!) We also had a wonderful vascular surgeon, Dr. Lundgren who was just finishing up her fellowship. She will be 36 years old when she's finally done with all of her education and training for her speciality. It is remarkable the amount of dedication these doctors have and how their work is their life. We are grateful for every one of them.

The kids all left around 8:30 last night and have started calling to check on Jon already this morning. (Today is the first day of the Nordstom's half year sale so Elizabeth was up and out early this morning :)). I spent the night and fortunately the nurses moved us into a private room which has this really cool chair that converts into a bed. It was fairly comfortable and much better the lining up all the folding chairs for a bed like I ususally do! I did squish into that little twin hospital bed with Jon for a while but thought I'd give him as much room as possible since he could have some pain with this procedure.

The nurse just came in and told us we can go home whenever we're ready. I'm just going to wait until Jon wakes up on his own and then pack it up. We will be back in two weeks for a follow up visit with Dr. Goswami.