Brookwood
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Hi, this is EJ, Brookwood's husband. I'd like to thank you all for your help, encouragement, best wishes and prayers through out this journey. Just a quick update.
My surgery went smoothly yesterday. We spent the night before at the hospital. Surprisingly, I was really calm and actually looked forward to the surgery. Maybe because I knew there was no way back.
The last thing I remembered was waiting outside the surgery room and chat with my anesthetist and the next thing was the tube in my throat. I couldn't move but I knew my wife was in the room. I was happy and I wrote " I love you" in her hand using my finger. The surgery lasted about 3.5 hours and the whole day I was really sleepy.
I spent the night in the ICU. Not much pain because of the magic medicine but couldn't sleep because I was running a fever (normal reaction to trauma in young people according to my doctor). My nurse had a fan and three packs of ice on me the whole night trying to cool me off. Tried tylenol and ibuprofin. Waked up almost every hour and played with my spriometer. Blood surgur was also high. Had four units of insuline to bring it down to normal.
Luckly the termperature backed to normal this morning and I am happily moved to the regular room at 11:00AM. I did all the walk (about 200 feet) from the ICU to the general room. I did another walk of about 400 feet this afternnon. I am feeling great right now and hopefully will be back home this Saturday.
Wife and Kids are doing OK. My parents are staying with us so we don't need to worry about baby sitting.
EJ
My surgery went smoothly yesterday. We spent the night before at the hospital. Surprisingly, I was really calm and actually looked forward to the surgery. Maybe because I knew there was no way back.
The last thing I remembered was waiting outside the surgery room and chat with my anesthetist and the next thing was the tube in my throat. I couldn't move but I knew my wife was in the room. I was happy and I wrote " I love you" in her hand using my finger. The surgery lasted about 3.5 hours and the whole day I was really sleepy.
I spent the night in the ICU. Not much pain because of the magic medicine but couldn't sleep because I was running a fever (normal reaction to trauma in young people according to my doctor). My nurse had a fan and three packs of ice on me the whole night trying to cool me off. Tried tylenol and ibuprofin. Waked up almost every hour and played with my spriometer. Blood surgur was also high. Had four units of insuline to bring it down to normal.
Luckly the termperature backed to normal this morning and I am happily moved to the regular room at 11:00AM. I did all the walk (about 200 feet) from the ICU to the general room. I did another walk of about 400 feet this afternnon. I am feeling great right now and hopefully will be back home this Saturday.
Wife and Kids are doing OK. My parents are staying with us so we don't need to worry about baby sitting.
EJ
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