Good Saturday morning, everyone and Happy April Fool's Day! Another beautiful day here. Too bad Bill & Rita have to leave it.
Karen - Glad to hear Scooter isn't going to have to have her BP checked so often. Good planning on the vet's part.
Kathie - Ouch! on the cost of paint. We really need to do some painting around here, but I dread Bert's reaction to the cost. He hasn't been anywhere near a paint department in a few years, so it will be total sticker shock to him one of these days.
Dave - Ouch! to you too on the cost of those prescriptions. Bert spent about $350. for 4 prescriptions for me the other day, but thankfully, it's 3 months worth. I hope that's the same for you. The surgery was to put 1 or 2 stents in my left leg. More about that in a little bit.
Lee - Take care of that neck. I agree that you probably need a good massage or a trip to the chiropractor for a manipulation.
Bill - Have a safe flight home and I'll be looking forward to hearing you're safely home later today.
Time now, boys and girls, to hear about my adventure yesterday. Got to the office early and was taken into the OR early also. Great start, right? Once the doctor started the procedure to insert a couple of stents into my leg I could hear him talking with the tech about not being able to get through one area. Surgery was over very quickly, which made me very happy.
Got into the recovery room and the doctor explained to Bert & I that he was unable to complete the procedure in his officer OR and that I will need to be hospitalized to complete the procedure. He'll use the same method he did the first time and I will have to stay overnight before being released. Doesn't make me happy, but it is what it is.
At this point things got really really weird. My BP decided to tank. It dropped down to 70 over 37! Man did that get the action started. At that point I had 5 people in recovery helping. Poor Bert didn't have a clue what was going on. They started pumping an IV into me using the mail body vain in my groin. Doctor was actually squeezing the IV container to make the fluids run faster while at the same time nurse was giving me water to drink. Really scared the crap out of me. Instead of an hour and a half in recovery, I was there for 2 and a half hours! During that time I was given 2 1/2 L of fluids! Slowly but surely my BP returned to normal. They were checking it every 5 minutes for a while. Boy, was I ever glad to go home!!
I spent yesterday afternoon and evening stretched out on my lounge chair. Bert followed me each time I moved to make sure I didn't get dizzy and fall.
Today I'm better, but it really hurts where the doctor tried to do the procedure and on the other side where they put the IV in. Time for some Aleve or a drink of Dave's "medicine".
We're supposed to be going to the Bellalago Spring Carnival & Easter egg hunt today, but I might just take a pass. Not really in the mood to listen to a DJ and have all those kids running all over.
Time for a cup of coffee and go back to the lounge chair. I earned another day of relaxation. Have a wonderful day, everyone, and I hope no one pulls an April Fool's joke on you!!
