Surgery non-news
Mar. 10th, 2005 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zoetheThis morning, I paid $4.00 to button my coat.
Got Kristi into the hospital just before 6am, and they were very efficient at getting her into a room. The surgery unit at the Cleveland Clinic is about the most streamlined process I have seen, but it did rather give the impression of being on a conveyer belt. Anyway, they got us into a room, then pitched me back out into the waiting room while Kris changed and they got an I.V. going. After about half an hour, they called me back in. We were expecting to have an hour or two to kill, and so had stopped by Walgreens to pick up trashy movie star magazines, but I was only allowed in for a goodbye and off they wheeled her.
Knowing how long this surgery would take, there was no reason for me to just sit there all day, so I went back to the front desk and gave them contact numbers. Then I bundled myself back up to face the chill of Cleveland's lovely March weather.
Blast me and my buttons.
The first hour of parking is free. I pulled into the parking garage at 5:53. I pulled out at 6:54. One minute, and I had to pay the hour to hour-and-a-half rate. This lack of even a minute's cushion seems rather miserly to me, but whatchagonnado?
I called in the first time at 9:14. They were able to tell me that Kristi had gone into surgery 17 minutes earlier - right on time. I'm limiting myself to a call every two hours, so now I'm trying not to clock watch. And failing miserably. I was pretty impressed by their waiting room set-up - very roomy and comfortable, and there are large computer screens that give status updates on the patients. It looked like airport flight information: Left kidney now debarking at surgery gate 10. Still, it's better than not having any idea what's going on.
I'm working hard at convincing myself to stay at the office all day. That is less easy than I thought it would be. But there is plenty of work on my desk to distract me. Updates as I know anything.
And I did just call in. There apparently aren't updates during surgery, just when she finishes. Being that it's an eight-hour surgery, that's gonna be a while....
Got Kristi into the hospital just before 6am, and they were very efficient at getting her into a room. The surgery unit at the Cleveland Clinic is about the most streamlined process I have seen, but it did rather give the impression of being on a conveyer belt. Anyway, they got us into a room, then pitched me back out into the waiting room while Kris changed and they got an I.V. going. After about half an hour, they called me back in. We were expecting to have an hour or two to kill, and so had stopped by Walgreens to pick up trashy movie star magazines, but I was only allowed in for a goodbye and off they wheeled her.
Knowing how long this surgery would take, there was no reason for me to just sit there all day, so I went back to the front desk and gave them contact numbers. Then I bundled myself back up to face the chill of Cleveland's lovely March weather.
Blast me and my buttons.
The first hour of parking is free. I pulled into the parking garage at 5:53. I pulled out at 6:54. One minute, and I had to pay the hour to hour-and-a-half rate. This lack of even a minute's cushion seems rather miserly to me, but whatchagonnado?
I called in the first time at 9:14. They were able to tell me that Kristi had gone into surgery 17 minutes earlier - right on time. I'm limiting myself to a call every two hours, so now I'm trying not to clock watch. And failing miserably. I was pretty impressed by their waiting room set-up - very roomy and comfortable, and there are large computer screens that give status updates on the patients. It looked like airport flight information: Left kidney now debarking at surgery gate 10. Still, it's better than not having any idea what's going on.
I'm working hard at convincing myself to stay at the office all day. That is less easy than I thought it would be. But there is plenty of work on my desk to distract me. Updates as I know anything.
And I did just call in. There apparently aren't updates during surgery, just when she finishes. Being that it's an eight-hour surgery, that's gonna be a while....
