Archive for May 23rd, 2006
Surgery Done!
3:40 PM - We are paged to Conference Room C.
Dr. John Dietz came in, said they were all done and everything went very good! Praise the Lord! They had a hard time reaching some of the areas due to the position and the scar tissue from last year’s surgery, but were able to remove a […]
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1:24 PM
1:24 PM - We finally asked for an update and they finished with the front incision and work and just started on his back about an hour ago. They told us before that when they started on his back, it would take about 6 hours.
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still waiting…
12:08 PM - and…we are… still waiting. We figured we’d have at least a progress report on the surgery, but nothing yet. The reason Greg is having this surgery is due to a disease called AS, or Ankylosing spondylitis. Read about it HERE….
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It’s a long walk around this hospital! But the weather is nice - almost 72 F and sunny. The grass is mown nicely around the buildings, and there are lots of roses and flowers. Some guy who had seen me upstairs in the waiting room was down by the front entrance when I came back […]
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9:15 AM - We finally were paged to go back to the surgery pre-op area at 7:55 AM. We visited with Greg and his anethesiologist, Dr. David R. Mumme - who we found out is a Christian, graduated from UT, and went to school in Bethany, OK!! How do you put all that together? We […]
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Modern Hospitals
6:48 AM: Well, the wonders of modern hospitals. We are in the waiting room, and we are - waiting…. Greg is pre-op. Soon we will be able to go back and have prayer with him before his surgery.
We woke at 4:45 AM and left for the hospital at 5:30 AM. Greg is good spirits, cracking […]