Went in to Mercy this morning expecting to find Maggie back on the ward but she was still in ICU and all drugged up. Apparently this was mostly due to a backlog processing all the patients, a full house according to the nurses. Who'd have thought there would be a Christmas rush on at a hospital. So I hung out there for a while listening to all the machines that go bing. Graham came along for a brief inspection and told her to keep pressing her magic drug cocktail release button, but seemed otherwise pleased (I find it mildly disturbing how fast and effective IV drugs seem to be).
Around 12:00 Maggie got moved back down to the St Cecilia ward, I trundled along with the baggage. The view from the room is nice, overlooking town. The company however was annoying, complete with screaming kids (literally) had to tell them to bugger off and and ask for a single room which turned out to be optimistic thinking, since there was already a waiting list of 6. Yvette popped in for a quick visit. Also removed the stinky lillys that belonged to the neighbours.
When I was about to depart Dr Barnes checked in to see if everything was under control. Maggie reported that she was still in a bit of pain but it was manageable, although it's making her really drowsy and even dopier than normal.
Will let people know when she feels like visitors.
Bryan.
Pre-op 2000
This is before I had any surgery on my back. It's looking at it front on. You can see the base of the spine is where it connects to my pelvis, and then how the top is out of line with the bottom, This made it look like I had one big hip, because my ribcage was off to one side.
Pre-op 2007
Here is how my spine looks now, you can see that the part that has the rods is straight, then at the top the unfused part goes off at a different angle. The surgery tomorrow is to fix that, by putting a rod from about 2 vertebrae up and 3 or 4 below the junction.
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