I spend the morning in my ER room with no sleep at all. Having to get up and take a leak with tubes and wires sticking out of me. And cold, I actually broke a veneer on tooth 7. It fractured and I’m a bit scared a piece may have gotten swallowed. I think it was around 6am they came and took me and the bed I was in upstairs so I could get ready for surgery. I have never put on a surgical gown and it didn’t come with instructions so I had to call for help.

They took me down about 7:15am, I was scheduled for 7:30am but others went first. I was parked in pre-surgery with nothing to do but listed to the activity around me. I was parked in a cubby with the curtin drawn and lights out. Every occasionally someone would peek in on me to check. Across the way, there was a conversation about a colonoscopy, next cubby to me there was a guy, talking to a doctor. I watched the digital clock on the wall tick off the time, 7:45, 8:00 then 8:06 and they opened the curtain and said it was time.

The nurse said she had some ‘champaine for the brain’ and injected it into my line… That was it…

I have a brief recollection of waking up in a warehouse on the bed with a mask on thinking I couldn’t breathe, I faded in and out of consciousness. The next thing I remember I was back in my room and Sandy was there then out again. Woke up and Cortney was there and doctors coming in and talking and me talking but I have no recollection what was said. It was reminicent of a blackout and not fun.

After finally coming to in the afternoon, I didn’t have any energey and they kept pumping drugs and IV’s and giving me pills and taking blood and vitals. Unfortunately because of the environment and the bed and everything else, there would be no sleep for me this night and I sadly watched as my cell phone dropped into the single digits for charge and then die. I had neglected to bring a charger cable and although Sandy would be bringing me one in the morning. This overnight would be spent with only a TV whose channels I didn’t know and the nurses checking on me and my thoughts. Sigh…