Hope is fine

After a laproscopic procedure taking less than an hour, Hope is currently sailing through her recovery from getting her gall bladder removed. We had to get her to the Pine Bluff hospital for her surgery by 5:30 a.m. so she could get in the operating room at 7:30 a.m. The procedure went well, and after a couple hour wait, they finally got her into a private room to recover...we should have seen the writing on the wall for this "outpatient" treatment!! She was supposed to stay in the hospital overnight (if we lived in Pine Bluff, they would have released her that evening) and then get released in the morning. The kids and I timed our trip up there to roughly coincide with when we had been told to expect her release...8 hours later, after considerable fuming by myself and a planned walk-out of the hospital, the attending surgeon finally got around to rubber-stamping her release, and she finally got home by that evening. Hope felt up to going to a wedding shower for a fellow church-goer Sunday afternoon by herself (was probably more restful for her than watching that Packer game), and she will slowly get back to her regular schedule over the next couple of weeks. Early indications are that the surgery seems to have fixed what was ailing her (let's just call it "digestive issues"), but we won't know for sure until she starts eating more of the foods that caused her problems.

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jkbinturkey said…
Dear Braggs,

Hope that you are feeling ok, Hope, and that your digestive process is going smoothly, so to speak. Sounds painful. That hospital stay sounded like fiasco.

Congratulations on your big find, Don. "Kirby Sneed" and "tupelo gums" -- both sound pretty southern.

Sorry again for my poor wording in the blog. I felt terrible. My intentions were good.

Later, Jojo
12:37 PM
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