Tuesday Morning

Here we are to another tuesday morning in the CCH hotel! For all the surgeons and doctors have on the ball, I'm starting to wonder about the rest of the place. There are so many nurses, techs, aides, transporters, and other staff - no one knows what the other is doing.
Tim rested really good last night. He had been kept from food and drink all day to be ready for the pacemaker procedure. This morning the night nurse came in and wanted to know why he didn't have to "go" and said he should have been drinking all night.....he had better start drinking some water (they never bring you any) so he could/would have output. She finally brought him a couple of little bottles of water - which Tim drank - and "went" without any problems. Then transport came in and took him to have his Hohn catheter put in. About an hour later his nurse came looking for him - and said he was to have no food or water today for his procedure. I said they had already gone.......about 10 minutes later they brought him back.....he had gone for a pacemaker follow-up. (He has to wait all day for the other procedure - no food or water all day again). Something was not correct with his pacer - and they will have to decide if they can fix it externally or decide if they will have to re-open his pacer area and fix the lead wires internally. Tim says that surgery and placement hurts worse than the open heart. He is very sore and tender in the shoulder area and is dreading if they decide to open it back up.