He got through the surgery just fine, though it took them nearly 6 hours to get him from recovery to his room, due to pissy nurses who didn't want to take up the 3 patients when they felt they already had enough as it was... When the charge nurse came on for the night shift at 4pm, she saw the list of waiting patients for the floor and had an early dinner of nurse ass... He's in some pain, they have him on morphine which it seems he's morphine tolerant or something to that effect, the surgeon won't change it for some reason, so he's dealing with it as best as he can... He's already started PT, in fact, he got his first 5 exercises given to him 30 mins after he got settled in his room, as well as walked to the door and back with a walker and sat in the chair for almost 1 1/2 hours...
BTW, a man who hasn't eaten since 8pm the night before, having missed lunch, being given a tray of nothing but liquids is NOT a good idea, Ray nearly bit the heads off the nurse, until she told him this was standard, to drink as much as he could as he had real dinner coming in shortly... Which I swear he inhaled... LOL Anyway, I am going to crawl into bed and more than likely pass out as I have been going since 3:30am and I am not only a tired little puppy, but also hurting beyond anything I could ever imagine at the moment... And if this fucking mouse doesn't get it that I am NOT in the mood to play hide and seek tonight, it's going to wind up dead before he knows it... ~heads out in not a great mood or temperament, due to stupid idiots who think they are more important than the patient~
Yes, Rags, he actually did threaten to collar a few of them, including the recovery nurse who didn't seem to listen to him when he had said that he told not only the surgeon but also the anesthologist that fentanyl and morphine don't touch him unless it's a much larger dose than normal and he still got the crap... Yeah, he also threatened to leave, came close to ordering them to remove the catheter as well as the IV, bp cuff and sticky things on his chest hooked up to the wires because he was getting the fuck out of there, and going home where he would get more done than sitting in that fucking room waiting on the fucking cunts upstairs... You would have been proud... I will call you tomorrow if anything changes...
Thank you as well to my family for your well wishes, thoughts and prayers, he and I both thank you all from the bottom of our hearts...