It is 10:30 the night before my dad and brothers surgery and we got a phone call about 2 hours ago saying that the surgery had been cancelled!!! WHAT??? They could have called at least 2 days, or a day before, but just hours before??? I guess the anesthesiologist was looking over my dads charts tonight and didn't realize that he had 2 stints put in his heart last Dec. The regulation is that it has to be at least a year before they can do the transplant or any other type of surgery. Well, thats sure nice to find out the night before. Why didn't anyone know about this sooner? So, needless to say this transplant isn't going to take place for a couple of more months... My dad was so excited to be going to his LAST dialysis treatment today... poor guy!
Oh, and then they told him yesterday that he needed to loose 10 more pounds, well that would have been nice to know more than the day before the surgery also.
So, my sis-n-law was on her way down from Idaho Falls tonight and was in Brigham City when Matt called her to tell her the news. She just kept on driving and he packed his bags back up and they headed back tonight so she didn't have to take work off tomorrow.
We only talked to my parents for a little bit tonight, and they were pretty disappointed... I guess one good thing about it is that they found out tonight, and not in the morning during the surgery. They said his chances of having a heart attack DURING the surgery were pretty high.
Talk about a change of plans! So, I will keep you updated on when the surgery will be rescheduled for...
Goodnight.
3 comments:
Like you said, better to find out now than during the procedure. Best wishes to your dad during this exausting time. If I can be of any help, please let me know.
Sorry again about the change of plans but I guess it was better than having something bad happen during surgery. You would have thought they could have caught that a month ago... Anyway, thanks again so much for saving my butt tonight! He loved you... he told me!!! Oh ya, but he did mention that he hated the BYU hates!!! HEHE!!!
Sorry to hear about the last minute change in plans ... especially when everyone was so prepared for it to finally happen. Hopefully things can be rescheduled and the transplant can take place as soon as both of their bodies are ready :)
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