uh-private-room

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:12:43 -0600

27AUG24 - Another lapse in uploads mainly because of Jen's surgery but there are quite a few new shots to peruse..

The best news of course was the surgeon's report of "NO CANCER!" Always wonderful words for the ears. We went up to SA Wednesday afternoon because we had to be at the hospital at 0530 on Thursday. SOW, the original plan was to use robotic laparoscopy requiring only five, 3cm incisions horizontally across her belly.

But when the doc got a camera inside, she saw that Jen's womb was larger than expected and she would not be able to remove it with Plan A. Switch to Plan B which was to unfortunately, make an 8-10 inch vertical incision right down the center. There were other complications as well and all together, poor Jennifer was in the OR for six hours!

University Hospital in SA is quite a place and they recently added another complete, 12-story hospital adjacent to the original for only women and children. And BION, the joint was completely full! Consequently, Jen had to hang loose in the little, curtained recovery room for about ten hours. Finally they got her a private rooom on Friday and the image above is what it looked like. It had to be the largest hospital room I've ever seen and verl well designed.

We got home Saturday afternoon and Jen has been doing much better than I expected thanks to modern medical tech. Pretty sure the doc used a laser for the incisions and, the "clean up crew" used medical grade Super Glue to close all the small incisions and also on the large one although there appear to be a few sutures in that one. We go back up on 10SEP for the post-op visit with the doc.