Surgery Day

I'll be live-blogging today's orthroscopic knee surgery, so watch this space for updates. Unless they let me and my iphone into the OR, there might not be a whole lot to report, but we'll see....

9:15: Riley's at preschool and we don't have to be at the surgical center until noon, so we'll be hanging out here at home for the morning. Karen's making cranberry relish for Saturday's Moms group Thanksgiving dinner (can be made up to a week ahead of time and prob won't feel much like working in the kitchen for the next couple days), and I'm just chilling and redding up a bit (that means tidying up to any non-Pittsburghese speakers out there).

9:20: As I'm typing the above post, we get a call from the surgical center that the appointment's been moved up an hour.

11:18: At the surgical center. They just took Karen back to get things started. Once she's all set, they say I can go back and wait with her until they can start the big show.

12:25: Ok, she's off to the OR. The anesthesiologist was delayed by a previous procedure, so there was about a 30 minute delay after Karen was all ready to go.
I'm off to lunch and to pick up her crutches, which I left at work (grrr).

2pm: Surgery's all done. Just talked with Dr Rollins. Everything went fine. Her ACL was completely torn, but the replacement for that went fine. The miniscus is better than expected, hardly any damage at all, but the PCL (Posterior crutiate ligament) has a partial tear. However, like the MCL, that just requires time to heal.
Dr says the prognosis is excellent. Yea!!!!

3:30: The nurse is getting Karen ready to go home. I've been directed to go wait with the car.

4:30: Home and resting comfortably-ish on the couch. A bottle vitamin V at the ready.

This concludes our programming day. Thanks for watching. ;-)