More waiting

I knew I was to have surgery some time on Thursday so they advised me not to eat after midnight the night before. I had my last meal at 8:00pm Wed night.

Thursday morning I waited and waited for a phone call, with my mother in law waiting to get the call as well to come and watch the boys. Finally at 12:00 the hospital called and told me my surgery wouldn't be until 7:00. I had a few crackers to eat at that point as I hadn't eaten for 12 hours and wouldn't be able to eat for another 12. My head was huring, my belly gurgling.... i was hungry.

Finally it was time to head to the hospital, 5:00, two hours before my surgery so they could prep me. Russ took me up and I filled out paperwork, put on the gown and got into bed. They hooked my up to IV around 6:30. I started to overhear conversations between the nurses that the OR was running 2 hours late and how they still had 3 more people to go in. At around 7:00 a lady from the OR came in looking for me..... great I get to go first yay..... not so fast, she was there to tell me my surgery was canceled as they were only allowed to work until 11:00 and the other two people were higher priority than me. As usual I started crying and managed to tell the lady that I had arranged child care for my kids for the next week while I recover and now I would have to do more juggling around to cover more time. She must have felt sorry for me because she got on the phone and looked at the schedule and came back and told me that should would do her absolute best to get me on the schedule for 6:00 Friday (today).

They then unhooked my IV but left the needle in my hand and sent me home. I was soo hungry and upset by this time that I felt naseaus. I made it home and up to my bedroom and it was another few hours before I was able to get food down without feeling like it was going to come back up.

So this morning I woke up at 5:00 so that I could hav something to eat and a coffee. At 9:00 I called the surgeons office as I was instucted to confirm I am on the schedule for today. His machine says that the office is closed on Fridays. I have no idea who else I am supposed to contact and I am not confident that this will actually happen today. If the doctors office is closed, then what are the chances he actually works today. I would like to think the OR nurse would have checked that before she scheduled me, but for all I know she was just looking for a empty OR booking spot.

So now all I can do is wait for a phone call from the hospital. (One of the nurses last night did say they would call me, not me call them, but the other nurses thought I should try his office) I could try and call the hospital, but from past experiences with hospital procedure bookings, nobody knows whats going on and I will just get passed around and end up more frustrated.