A long day

I woke up early, too early: 2:00 a.m. and my wife was already awake. Actually, she never went to bed. She's too nervous.

We show up at the hospital at 5:30 a.m. like we were told to, went through processing and into the pre-operative room at 7:30. We wait another 45 minutes before everyone shows up. My wife still has a cough but the anesthesiologist thinks it's fine. Initially we were going to go with an epidural but my wife would rather get the general anesthesia as long as it doesn't affect the baby. The anesthesiologist says that there are several medications that can be used that are perfectly safe. My wife walks into the operating room and I go to the waiting room.

At 10:30 the surgeon comes out and tells me the operation went well and I should be able to see her soon. She also said that a small area was left unbandaged for easier healing and she stitched my wife up on the outer perimeter of the removed area.

I was able to see my wife for about 5 minutes every hour starting at 12:00. We were waiting for a room for my wife and that didn't come until 8:00 p.m.

Luckily my wife was taken to a private room. She was in a great deal of pain as the drugs were wearing off. She received another dose of morphene for the pain and that helped but all it did was reduce the pain to a throb. I left since I was beat tired and she was still very sleepy. I was at the hospital for 18 hours and I was tired. I was afraid of what the parking fee was going to be since I didn't have alot of cash on me but it was only $8.00, a bargain in today's times.