I'm not so good with the upkeep of the blogging. Maybe it's because we don't have Internet? OR maybe it's because I truly am that lazy. Most likely it is both. I'm using up data right now to type this. You're worth it, though. 😘
Preston is back to work after TWO super sucky surgeries on his gallbladder. His first surgery was May 29th which was 2 days after we got to Texas. What was supposed to be a 1 hour laparoscopic cholecystectomy ended up being a 5 hour open cholecystostomy placement. For those who don't know, that's a tube that helps the bile drain from your gallbladder. Apparently his insides were completely torn up and inflamed from a gallbladder attack at the beginning of May (which put him in the hospital for 4 days... literally right before he was due to fly to Raleigh and marry me again/move me to Texas) and the doctor said cutting through his gallbladder was like trying to slice through rock. It wasn't going to happen. So, she placed a tube into his gallbladder to help the bile drain and he had to walk around with that sucker for TWO months! Talk about a damper on life. He couldn't swim or do anything fun. Poor guy.
Being a totally good sport while we all swim without him.
His gnarly scar.
The funniest thing about all of this was that when he woke up, he started complaining about how ugly his belly button is now... LOL. That boy...
So on July 27th he went in for his second surgery which ended up being another 5 hours but this time stayed laparoscopic. The surgeon took her time using a Q-tip looking tool and wiped away all of the adhesions that had formed around his gallbladder before finally taking the whole organ out.
That hospital visit pissed me off. I had just started working at the Children's Hospital so I wasn't present during his recovery period, but he let me know that they messed up his pain medication after he told them that IV morphine wasn't working. He requested the dilaudid PCA that he had received the first time and so after 4 hours, they brought him a morphine PCA. He tried it twice and it still didn't work so he told the RN who then took the PCA away and started giving him tylenol. What the crap. I was furious when he told me this. What's even better is that his electrolytes were low so they hung potassium piggyback on a separate pump than his IV fluids... which conveniently stopped working so after a minute his hand started to burn. He said he called the nurse but it took 10 minutes for anyone to get there. For those of you who are unaware of what straight potassium does, it can cause severe cardiac arrhythmias. So, needless to say if he needs another surgery I'm taking him straight to Scott & White and we will not be receiving care at Darnall ever again. I am so thankful he is okay now!
