Well, yesterday was the biopsy. DH is always worried about being late, so about 10:20 he was ready to go (keep in mind we live about 10 minutes from the hospital and we were supposed to be there at 11. Needless to say, we pulled up to the door about 10:31. We had been told there was a sign outside that said "outpatient" but we did not see it, but it was the door between emergency and the main entrance. No wheelchairs as we were told. He sat down and I went into patient registration and asked how to get to Outpatient Surgery. The girl there asked me my name and she him checked in right there. They provided a wheel chair and told us to go up the elevator to 2nd, turn left and we would be right there. We did but it wasn't. It was radiology. I went in and asked how to get to outpatient and a very nice lady there told me and even walked us down there.
We went in and told the girl there we were here. She looked him up and said he should have registered in Outpatient, not patient registration (how was I to know). Anyway, we went through the whole registration thing again. The girl even called down and told the person down there not to register their patients. Now it is after 11. They call him back and by 11:40 he was prepped and ready to go. Then we were told he was scheduled for 1 p.m. What??? Why were we here to early? No one told us the time of the procedure, just what time we were supposed to be there.
Slowly the hands of the clock turn and 1 p.m. comes around. A nurse comes in and says they are backed up in emergency -- several emergencies -- and he has been pushed back to 1:30. At 1:35, I went out to the desk and asked how much longer, that we had been told he had been pushed back to 1:30. Someone called and now they were hoping to get him there around 2. Finally, a little after 2, a guy came in to take him down and I went out to start my vigil in the waiting room -- on some not very comfortable chairs.
He was having fluid drained from around his right lung and then the liver biopsy. Around 3:30, a nurse came out and said they had drained around the lung, but when they were doing the ultrasound for the biopsy, they discovered he had fluid in his abdominal area. He has been telling people he was ready to deliver twins!! Finally, around 5 p.m., a nurse came in (I was the only one left in the waiting room) and said she would take me down to the radiology waiting room because he would be discharged from there. About 15 - 20 min. later, another nurse came in and asked if I wanted to go see him. Well, they didn't have to ask twice!! I was told he wouldn't be discharged until 7:30 p.m.
During the draining procedures, they took 1 1/2 liters of fluid from around his right lung and 3 liters from his abdominal area. I was shocked! Unfortunately, it will take about 4 days to get any results back and the oncologist would call when he gets them.
Sorry this is so wordy, but it was a very long day.
Nancy
We went in and told the girl there we were here. She looked him up and said he should have registered in Outpatient, not patient registration (how was I to know). Anyway, we went through the whole registration thing again. The girl even called down and told the person down there not to register their patients. Now it is after 11. They call him back and by 11:40 he was prepped and ready to go. Then we were told he was scheduled for 1 p.m. What??? Why were we here to early? No one told us the time of the procedure, just what time we were supposed to be there.
Slowly the hands of the clock turn and 1 p.m. comes around. A nurse comes in and says they are backed up in emergency -- several emergencies -- and he has been pushed back to 1:30. At 1:35, I went out to the desk and asked how much longer, that we had been told he had been pushed back to 1:30. Someone called and now they were hoping to get him there around 2. Finally, a little after 2, a guy came in to take him down and I went out to start my vigil in the waiting room -- on some not very comfortable chairs.
He was having fluid drained from around his right lung and then the liver biopsy. Around 3:30, a nurse came out and said they had drained around the lung, but when they were doing the ultrasound for the biopsy, they discovered he had fluid in his abdominal area. He has been telling people he was ready to deliver twins!! Finally, around 5 p.m., a nurse came in (I was the only one left in the waiting room) and said she would take me down to the radiology waiting room because he would be discharged from there. About 15 - 20 min. later, another nurse came in and asked if I wanted to go see him. Well, they didn't have to ask twice!! I was told he wouldn't be discharged until 7:30 p.m.
During the draining procedures, they took 1 1/2 liters of fluid from around his right lung and 3 liters from his abdominal area. I was shocked! Unfortunately, it will take about 4 days to get any results back and the oncologist would call when he gets them.
Sorry this is so wordy, but it was a very long day.
Nancy
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