Winter Solstice of Ember
Dec. 21st, 2018 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoWe just got back to our hotel room after a LONG day. I know this is supposed to be the shortest day, but it sure seemed to stretch on forever! Hospital waiting rooms will do that to you. Mr. and Ms. Science picked Mother up this morning, and we met them at the hospital at 9--her arrival time was changed to 9:30, after all. And then we waited all day for the procedure which finally started at nearly 6 pm. A kind administrator pointed out a recliner in the waiting room that Mother could use for napping. Part of the delay was other patients. Part of it was the need to bring Mother's blood pressure down gradually to an acceptable level. Once the procedure started, the doctors say that everything went smoothly. It also took Mother a long time to wake up from sedation afterwards.
Mother was finally taken up to her room about 8:30. We really wanted to stay till she got something to eat, since she hadn't had anything since midnight, but she was still too groggy and needed to be given clear liquids first. She said indignantly to me, "I just don't see why I should go through all this and such an excruciating procedure just to see a MOVIE!" I suggested that possibly she had been dreaming about the movie, and she admitted that might be the case. I don't think the procedure really was excruciating, but for her, having an IV put in counts as excruciating. Her old skin is pretty tender.
We'll go back first thing in the morning to see if we can catch the doctors at rounds and get more information. I'm very hopeful that she'll be much better after a night's sleep and something to eat and drink. We never got any dinner ourselves, but I anticipated that something like this might happen, and that's why I provided us with handy snacks. So we're enjoying a bite of bread and cheese, and a celebratory drink from the famous flask. Very tired, VERY relieved!
A happy Sunreturn to all! The light will come back, and things are bound to get better.
Mother was finally taken up to her room about 8:30. We really wanted to stay till she got something to eat, since she hadn't had anything since midnight, but she was still too groggy and needed to be given clear liquids first. She said indignantly to me, "I just don't see why I should go through all this and such an excruciating procedure just to see a MOVIE!" I suggested that possibly she had been dreaming about the movie, and she admitted that might be the case. I don't think the procedure really was excruciating, but for her, having an IV put in counts as excruciating. Her old skin is pretty tender.
We'll go back first thing in the morning to see if we can catch the doctors at rounds and get more information. I'm very hopeful that she'll be much better after a night's sleep and something to eat and drink. We never got any dinner ourselves, but I anticipated that something like this might happen, and that's why I provided us with handy snacks. So we're enjoying a bite of bread and cheese, and a celebratory drink from the famous flask. Very tired, VERY relieved!
A happy Sunreturn to all! The light will come back, and things are bound to get better.
