I thought I would do a mum update before I finish my bridesmaid story. So you will have to wait till later on today to get that tale.
The mum stayed awake during the whole NINE hours of surgery, with four surgeons working on her. When I say awake I mean as awake as you can be whilst having bits of you chopped off. The reason why she was awake, was she is just too risky a candidate for General Anaesthetic as she is allergic too it. The last time she had it for a major surgical procedure her whole body was paralyzed, as every muscle in her body forgot to work. This was some default in her auto immune system and was a very scary time for everyone. So instead of a general anaesthetic the pain was managed by an epidural. That in itself was a challenge and it took the experts over an hour to get the needle in. My mum is a complicated bugger when it comes to medical treatment.
Anyways back to the latest surgical procedure, they seem to have replaced what they needed to replace (right hip and femur) with the appropriate metal work and the mums legs are back to being the same length.
Only time will show us how successful the procedure really was, the biggest risk now is infection!
Now a funny but true moment to lighten the mood.
When you have been though major surgery they like to keep you as still as possible, so that means no unnecessary toilet trips. How does one go to the loo then? They whack in a catheter of course, a jolly apparatus that is actually far from jolly. In case you don't know what one is, a tube is shoved up your bits(urethra) and the whizz is collected in a bag. This bag has to be see through as they like to check on the colour for all sorts of medical reasons.
The mum is used to all this, as she has had one a million and one times. When you have been in and out of hospital as many times as the mum very little embarrasses you any more and you develop a robust sense of humour. If your bag needs emptying it needs emptying, so you give the nurses a buzz with plenty of warning. Unfortunately the nurses get rather busy and the bag gets fuller and fuller.
Anyways back to the latest surgical procedure, they seem to have replaced what they needed to replace (right hip and femur) with the appropriate metal work and the mums legs are back to being the same length.
Only time will show us how successful the procedure really was, the biggest risk now is infection!
Now a funny but true moment to lighten the mood.
When you have been though major surgery they like to keep you as still as possible, so that means no unnecessary toilet trips. How does one go to the loo then? They whack in a catheter of course, a jolly apparatus that is actually far from jolly. In case you don't know what one is, a tube is shoved up your bits(urethra) and the whizz is collected in a bag. This bag has to be see through as they like to check on the colour for all sorts of medical reasons.
The mum is used to all this, as she has had one a million and one times. When you have been in and out of hospital as many times as the mum very little embarrasses you any more and you develop a robust sense of humour. If your bag needs emptying it needs emptying, so you give the nurses a buzz with plenty of warning. Unfortunately the nurses get rather busy and the bag gets fuller and fuller.
Do we think they came in time?
Of course not!
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