Final Schedule

Got my final schedule for the big event tomorrow. I check in at 11:45AM. The nurse mentioned having an antibiotic drip about an hour before and after surgery. She figured I should be ready to leave about 4:00PM so I guess the filet job starts around 1-2.

I had missed it earlier that the hospital instructions say NPO after midnight, but the anesthesiologist form says 8 hours. So I figure I'll get up around 4:00AM and have a light breakfast, then go back to bed for a while. That should carry me through the day.

frank

5 Comments

Good luck!

by golden_snitch - 2010-01-14 04:01:28

Hi Frank,

having my fingers crossed for a smooth surgery and speedy recovery. I'm sure you'll post again after surgery, having just done a 10 miles walk with the new pacer ;-)

Best wishes
Inga

Jeep trips!

by sputnick - 2010-01-14 05:01:57

Good luck and best wishes for today. Hope you are soon riding round the Californian desert in your jeep again. You are an important and valuable member of this club and helped me enormously when I had just had my pacemaker implanted just 12 months ago.
Best wishes Jan x

best to you Frank

by breezy - 2010-01-14 12:01:35

Hi Frank
Good luck to you tomorrow....I am sure you will be just fine...good idea about getting up and getting something to eat... that will help you....
take good care and you will be in my prayers.
breezy

great idea

by jessie - 2010-01-14 12:01:52

get up and have a yummy snack a sandwich and a goodie maybe. then some fluids and get right back in that warm bed and sleep. you should be fine frank and not ready to kill someone the next day from hunger. take care. thinking of you hugs, jessie

Movin along

by ElectricFrank - 2010-01-14 12:01:52

I slept like a rock til the alarm went off at 4:00Am. Got up, spent a few minutes in the hot tub, had a scrambled egg, toast, and coffee. Stayed up about an hour and then back to bed for another deep sleep til 7:00.

Hmm the Jeep is an idea. They said no driving home afterwards, but what I do with the Jeep doesn't qualify as driving. LOL

frank

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