It feels like the days have ran into each other over and over again...
I had to think about what day it was today!
We have been on the go constantly since last week.
With Thayne's bad back to boot!
I started out the week, last week,
with a killer migraine.
It has been a while since I had a headache like that...
it was bad even by my standards!
By Wednesday we were still trying to get Thayne into a doctor
and finally we were able to get him in to one in Reno.
A fast and furious trip, 4 hours one way and home the same night,
but at least we got to see Kimi and Matt and
scheduled the surgery.
Friday we went with Caitlyn and Jace to Salt Lake
and got to go to a Utah Jazz game.
They played a great game and won for us too!
Thankfully we were at the top so Thayne was able to get up
when he needed to.
Saturday was a great day for a wedding
and we got to see Tony and Cherish married in the
Bountiful Temple.
It was beautiful and the bride and groom look
blissfully happy and in love!
Then hit the stores and malls to do some power shopping.
And Caitlyn loves to shop! It was as fun to watch her
as it was to get some shopping done!
We finally made it home at about midnight.
Church and home and packing to leave early Monday morning
so we could be there for surgery.
Or would we???
They called from the doctor's office to tell us that the doctor
was snowed in and no flights were leaving Chicago so they didn't know if
he would make it back.
Monday morning on our way, we called at 8am
and they told us the surgeries were on and to come on over.
We got there at noon and waited... and waited.
At 3pm they took us to the first phase of waiting. Gown him up,
answer all of the questions and wait to be taken to pre-op holding!
They were supposed to start the surgery at 3pm.
Thayne was not comfortable... hadn't ate since Sunday...
no pain meds, no nothing. The nurse kept walking by looking at him... and at 3pm
said they should be right back to get him.
She had explained a new system they have, where if you feel left alone,
forgotten or had questions to just dial 5 and they would send someone to come and
answer your questions.
At 3pm Thayne started asking for a phone.
I thought it was weird since he wasn't drugged up or anything so he
shouldn't be so 'weird' asking for a phone.
At 5pm the nurse realizes that we were still waiting.
She comes back and Thayne tells her he wants a phone!
She laughs, and asks why he wants phone.
He tells her that he is feeling neglected and alone and he wanted a phone to dial #5!!!
She laughed.
I wish I could have caught her eye to let her know he wasn't joking!
Nor was he in the joking mood!!!
She tells us she has bad news.
That the doctor was there, barely.
And was just starting surgery #1...
Thayne is patient #3!
At 7pm they take him to the 'pre-op holding' which means they moved him
to another big room and left him on the bed staring at yet another
wall and nobody anywhere to answer any questions.
We are waiting... a holding pattern... not another person there but we were holding.
And that was a good thing right???
At about 20 after 7 the anesthesiologist came in...
Can I just say that hearing someone who is supposed to be a professional start screaming
at a nurse because a cupboard was locked and using four letter F words
is a real turn off and a horrible first impression.
But whatever he gave Thayne knocked him out quickly. The little cocktail to relax him
put him completely out!
Waited for the doctor to come and tell me what he was doing ...
And then I went to the waiting room.
Thankfully a friend called and kept me company while I waited alone... for hours...
and hours...
Around 10pm the doctor came out and said the surgery had gone well. I was relieved and had a million things to ask but before I could put my thoughts together he said that I could go into recovery, he had told the nurse to get me and let me see him in recovery and then I could get a good nights sleep. I told him we would be staying at our daughters.
He said I would, but he was keeping Thayne over night. And then he was gone.
So I waited... walked the halls, waiting...
Finally a guy came in with the chart literally an inch in front of his eyes and says that I
must be waiting. Yes... I am, for Thayne. Oh Thayne, oh yeah, that is him!
So I follow him up to the 4th floor where they put on the best circus show I had seen in
quite a while....
They tried to take his bed into the room to move him to the regular bed. It had been noted that he did not come out of anesthesia very well. But the nurses looked at me like
I didn't know what I was talking about. So I just stood back and watched them put on the show.
First the bed wouldn't fit into the room going the way they were trying, head first. So after
much thought and consideration they turned the bed around and the one nurse kept
telling Thayne to wake up and put his arms over his chest and pick up his knees... he couldn't
even open his eyes, let alone help them move him!
When they realized he wasn't understanding a word they told him,
4 of them decided to
move him.
At one point I held my breath afraid that they were going to drop him.
And I have to say that I hated seeing my sweet husband like that.... competely out of it!
Not cool at all... I was not happy about that!
Well, while the one nurse took his vitals and tried to get some paperwork done,
the male nurse was trying to get the new bed working...
he lifted it up, as far as it would go,
then down, as low as it would go,
up down, up down, and every so often he would bang on the bed
just to see if THAT would maybe fix it.
But it didn't.
So Thayne was flat out on the bed unable to move.
As he came to they told him that he could give himself a dose of morphone,
and they would try to find someone who could fix the bed.
Thayne was just coming to and said that lay flat on his back was in horrible pain.
So I told him to push the button and get some relief.
He couldn't even think to push the button and told me to please just push it! I moved his finger over it and helped him push it.
Then 2 nurses come back and decided that he needed yet another bed,
hopefully one that actually worked.
But again they had the space issue so we watched another show as the 2 nurses tried to decide how to move him from one bed to another.
They finally decided to bring Thayne and his bed out into the hall
and moved the other bed into the room.
Then slip Thayne in feet first to get him onto the other bed.
He was actually able to scoot and get to where he needed to be
even though we were laughing by the time it was over!
FINALLY he was in bed and ready relax.
Nurses have the most thankless job ever, I know that.
But there are some, that give the rest of them the reputations that we were dealing with that night/day!!!
I finally went to Kimi's and got there at midnight
where the wind was blowing so fast and furious I started dreaming about being Dorothy
and was so exhausted that my mind kept playing tricks.
I thought the house was moving or that the van would blow away.
It was horroble rain and wind!
And I was worried about the storm blowoing in!
At 7am Thayne still hadn't seen anyone and while check out was 11am,
they were talking about 4 pm getting out.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 4 was too late!
We finally got them to agree to around noon.
He could get up and get moving and there were no problems so he should be able to get out about noon.
Noon came.
The nurse informed him
that he needed to wait 1/2 hour for the antibiotics to finish going through.
They finished.
It kept beeping to let the nurse know it was finished... and beeped and beeped.
He had his pants and shoes on and the nurse told him she would take, not the iv out,
but the cords attaching him to anything.
She told him he had to walk around the unit.
Obviously she had missed seeing him walking around.
When she finally came back in we reported that he had been walking, going to the bathroom, pacing... and at long last she said they were ready.
I asked where to pull my car around and she told me it would be at least a half hour before she could get the paperwork done.
So Willie and I left to get lunch and came back as she was finishing the paper work and finally, at long last we were busting out of that place!
The surgery was a little more complext than we originally were told.
He is already healing quickly, the nerve pain is gone and it is now just healing up from the actual surgery!
And I am so glad he has it done and is on his way to healing.
He hardly uses anything for the pain and is trying hard to take it easy
so that he can be up and running soon!!!
We were able to get on the road and beat the winter storm before it hit us!
4 hours later we were home with the family....
nothing better than seeing our kids wiating there for us.
I am so happy Thayne is on his way to mending and feeling good .
We made it home, and now I want to just sleep...
rest for a few days
and then jump in to finishing all of my work for the big day that is coming way too fast!
It has been a week!
A long, long week!
So grateful Thayne is feeling good and grafeful that the surgery went so well
despite the crazy of it all.
What a week it has been... is it over yet?????
What great decorators they all are!!!
Kami and Nate, best buddies... seeing what they can do with the icing!
Nate loves decorating... he especially loved mixing all of the icing!
Look at all of those cookies!
Watch out or Kami will get us with the red icing!
ICING....lots and lots of icing! And lots of love. This family is such a blessing, a gift that brings joy and love that makes everything so much more wonderful!
Frosting everywhere... especially all over Nate's face!
But he will continue to practice
So he plays his part out on the floor for the moments he is in there,
