Right on schedule

[gerisullivan]

My sister's hip replacement surgery went as expected. It was successful and is done! She'd told me the surgery would last 2 hours; it was 2 hours to the minute when they paged me in to talk with the surgeon.

She'll have another couple hours in the recovery room, then I'll be reconnecting with her when they assign a room.

Once again, the importance of having an informed patient advocate on site was demonstrated. Sue responds badly to morphine and morphine-derivatives. She'd told everybody that (including her surgeon), yet he still put in orders for a morphine-derivative she'd specifically told him not to give her. She'd told me the right questions to ask, and when he'd finished talking with me, he went off to change her orders to a pain med she's more likely to tolerate. Fingers crossed, knocking wood. I'm glad I was here; I hope I don't have to further act as the patient advocate poster child over the next couple of days, but I rather expect I will. It seems to go with the territory.

Work is going well. It did a good job of keeping me distracted while waiting during surgery. Win-win.

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[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good news. It's good when you can come through for your sister like that.