Bucking the Trend?

Everyone keeps saying how easy this surgery will be, the nurses, the surgeon, staff, is this the first time they’ve dealt with Renee? The surgeon was pretty cagey when trying to describe the surgery and the possibilities. He tried to nonchalant the chances of splitting Renee up the gut. Give us the darn worse case scenario doc. There is a good amount of muscle stitching in this operation, he already knows he’s got to deal with a knot that has formed on the incision from the previous surgery, handling all of that through the stoma access hole will be tricky. Renee’s got a long history of adhesions, it’d be pretty surprising if he didn’t have to clear some of these that have formed on important tubing. I’m not trying to jinx anything, I just know our girl. I told the doctor that I booked the hotel for six weeks just in case. This got a laugh out of him, I didn’t think he had it in ‘em.

We’re off to the hospital now. I nearly finished a whole book in the waiting room yesterday and I forgot two more that I thought I had packed. I am under-literaturized. A trip to the book store will happen soon but not today. The doc did give an estimate of three days post-surgery in the hospital. Renee has doubled the estimate on both previous surgeries, we’re hoping she’ll buck the trend on this one. Later.