Another surgery

Today was Mike's open heart surgery. Mom and Mike went in yesterday morning for education and pre-op. He went into surgery early this morning and last I heard they were closing him up. They had to do 4 bypasses instead of the planned three. Mom says she will be able to see him by 2:00PM
I called the hospital today and talked with the triage nurse about my blood tests. She told me that Dr Fennell wasn't in clinic today and was taking a few days off. I panicked a bit at that. I left a message for Dr Feigal to call me with them. A little while later Dr Fennell called. he was a the hospital for other reasons. He said the paperwork for the referral was on its way to the MN Oncology and Hematology group in the metro. We discussed the blood tests and he said it all looked okay, but that my CA-125 was slightly elevated above norm (norm=34 I had 39). Told me it could just be because of the size of the tumor. He told me I would get a call from the referral dept to set things up either today or Monday. Tom is now home and he called the group while at work to find out what info he could find. They don't do this type of procedure at Woodwinds, which is a bummer. They only do these at United and Abbott Northwestern.

Mike got out of surgery okay. When Thomas got home we all headed over to the VA hospital. Their waiting room leaves much to be desired. Why do hospitals make people sit on nasty couches for hours on end? Some people sleep on these couches, which is of course not really what the hospital wants you to do.
Mike looked good considering what he had been through. He was still completely out of it. He had 11 I.V.'s a thoracic drainage tube and a catheter. That is one nasty surgery. Seeing him freaked me out a bit about my own surgery. I know mine won't be nearly that bad, but crap!