PRE OP DAY

January 16, 2013:

Today was a long day! I headed up to Primary's around 11:00 to get all of his pre op stuff done. I was told to come do the sedated echo first and that cardiology would take care of the rest of his pre op stuff there. The sedation team came in and they could not find a good enough vein for probably 20-30 minutes. They poked him over and over and nothing. Finally they got a special light to help them and found one in his foot and he went right to sleep. They did blood work while he was sedated and through the same port they gave sedation so they didn't have to poke him again. Right after they had removed his IV, they came back and said the blood had clotted and that they needed to do it again. Luckily another poke didn't really phase him because he was still asleep.

The echo took over an hour. They didn't have to give William much sedation as he was pretty tired but William had a hard time waking up and recovering for some reason. His wouldn't open his eyes and his SAT levels which normally were between 90-100 would drop into the 70's. After about 2 hours of trying get him to wake up and eat and with his SAT levels everywhere, the nurse seemed pretty worried and spoke with Dr Pinto. They thought it was best to go upstairs to the same day recovery room and asked if I could spend the night if he didn't make progress soon as it was already late and we had to be here early the next morning anyway.

By 8:00 William's levels were stable and he was able to eat. So they sent me down stairs to do a chest xray and then said I could go home.