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[Coffee Warlord]

My mother goes under the knife for a pretty major surgery this morning.

Complete replacement of the primary artery in her leg. Like a 3-4 hour surgery. Nasty shit.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Good luck to your mom.

[MikeVic]

Good luck!

[flere-imsaho]

Best wishes. I'll be thinking of you and your family.

[st.cronin]

I will sacrifice a yak in her name.

On a tangent, this is one of those procedures that when I hear about it I feel like I was born just in time... what a wonderful world we live in.

[Lorena]

Hope all goes well

[Coffee Warlord]

On a tangent, this is one of those procedures that when I hear about it I feel like I was born just in time... what a wonderful world we live in.

You ain't kidding. It's really amazing the stuff they can do.

[Warhammer]

Here's hoping things go great!

[Eaglesfan27]

When my mom had to have major surgery, it was the scariest time of my life. Sending prayers and good thoughts your way.

[Swaggs]

Hope all turns out well.

[Fonzie]

*fingers crossed*

[terpkristin]

Hoping for the best, I can't imagine what it's like to be the family waiting for the surgeon to come out and say how things went...good luck!

/tk

[Fidatelo]

good luck

[oliegirl]

Keeping you and your family in my prayers...hope all turns out well for your mom!

[Lathum]

best of luck to your mom CW.

[SirFozzie]

Good Vibes.

[StarBuck]

Hey Coffee. Sending all good things to your mom. She will be fine. :)

[Coffee Warlord]

She JUST got out of surgery, doc said she's doing fine, all went well.

[Eaglesfan27]

Good news! Keep us updated :)

[sterlingice]

Hope things went well today :)

EDIT: See, things already got well between the time when I opened this thread and when I posted

SI

[Coffee Warlord]

Pops saw her briefly, she (unsurprisingly) looked like hell, but the doc said she's got normal bloodflow to her legs again, heart & kidneys stayed fine throughout the entire surgery, so it looks pretty good.

Gonna be like a month recovering, but all should be well.

Really appreciate all the well wishes.

[hoopsguy]

Glad to hear that everything went as well as could be expected. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[flere-imsaho]

Glad to hear the good news so far.

[Telle]

Very glad the surgery went well. I'll keep her in my thoughts for a speedy and full recovery.

[StarBuck]

That's great news. :-) My mom also had her veins in her legs operated on 2 weeks ago. The blood was not flowing the correct way.
Yup, thank god for the miracles of modern medicine!

[Draft Dodger]

glad to hear things seem on track for a full recovery

[MizzouRah]

She JUST got out of surgery, doc said she's doing fine, all went well.

Sorry I missed this thread CW, glad everything went well. Here's to a speedy recovery!

[Coffee Warlord]

Just got off the phone with her, she sounded pretty good. Tired, but good. They've moved her from ICU to a regular room.

Apparently, the ICU nurse was a total dick, too. My dad kept trying to call, but the phone was out of my mom's reach. Nurse ignored the call button to come move it over, didn't bother refilling her water glass, and she was freakin' thirsty as all hell.

Now, this is a woman who doesn't take shit from ANYONE, and she was not happy. Bitched out the nurse, and the guy apparently just ignored her after that, and got the rest of the staff there to do the same. Also refused to escort her from ICU to her regular room, which is hospital policy.

What dude didn't know is we happen to be friends with the Director of Nursing's husband. Whoops.

[terpkristin]

What dude didn't know is we happen to be friends with the Director of Nursing's husband. Whoops.

Glad to hear she's doing well enough to be moved to a regular room. :)

On a side note, little "ins" like being friends with the DoN's husband can be dead useful. My mom has a PhD, thus her business cards say "Dr. Pilotte." She also happens to work at a division of NIH. Needless to say, before my aunt and grandparents passed away, if they were in the hospital, she'd leave her business card with the nurse and amazingly, my relatives had some of the best care they'd ever had (by their admission, based on previous hospital stays where my mom wasn't around or didn't drop her card).

/tk

[StarBuck]

Coffee, make sure she says something about that, that isn't right.

And thanks for the well wishing for my mom.

[daedalus]

'grats on successful surgery, rob. good luck to her on recovery.

good luck with yours as well, starbuck.

[Raiders Army]

Glad everything is well.

[BYU 14]

Glad all is well CW, here is to a speedy recovery.

[Coffee Warlord]

She's ahead of schedule on recovery. Went up to see her yesterday, did a lap around the wing, so she's up and mobile. If all continues well, she'll be out around wednesday.

[Coffee Warlord]

Heh, now that mom seems to be out of the woods, cross your fingers and hope I didn't tear one of my knee ligaments at softball today. Landed pretty funny running out a close single.

Ow.