Post surgery

Katie had her surgery yesterday. It was a confusing day as far as timing because everyone who talked to us had a different story about when she would go in to surgery. She went in around 11:00 a.m. yesterday and although Dr. V had thought the surgery would take about 2.5 hour it actually took 4 hours. He said "I don't want to operate on her anymore it gets harder and harder every time," and then he chuckled. The extra time was really in getting through surgical adhesions and her unique anatomy to get to the parts he wanted to remove. He said the native kidney was visibly inflamed and adherent to everything around it. Katie was much more groggy after the surgery than she usually is, in fact she wasn't even close to being awake when we went back to the floor. She had a different anesthesiologist this time, the newest one in the department, and Katie had had some stress about waking up during the surgery so I think they tried to make extra sure that that wouldn't happen. But by the time James and I came home last night she had eaten a popsicle (although it was melted a bit we fed it to her with a spoon), and some jello. She called me later when she had eaten one of the seasoned potato wedges we had bought earlier so she's on her way.

James and I are on our way back out this morning. Dr. V wants her to be on 10 days of abx and the orders for that to be finished up at home are already in the works. So the issue keeping us inpatient is Katie's pain. She has a patient controlled pain med pump for now, the same kind she had after the transplant. We will try to transition her to oral pain meds when she we think she's able to get the relief she needs with them. Obviously we'd like to be home for Easter but we'll just have to see how today goes.