She's Awake!

When I arrived at 7am today (Thursday), Lynn was awake & sitting in a chair! Whee Haw!. However, the night nurse who got her up, pulled her in a direction Lynn asked NOT to go. Lynn said "It hurt!" and...her wound leaked. We were both glad to see her daytime nurse, Sarah, pictured above. Sarah is wonderful.

A picture from yesterday.

The view from Lynn's window - if you have telephoto lense.

Today has been crazy! Lab nurse drew blood, Respiratory Therapist, aides and nurses. Dr Rosenber came in & said, "No significant bleeding. Good drainage. The white blood count is high(that's from the infection). You might go home this weekend."

It is 8:45 and Lynn is eating for the first time (I'm not counting last night's jello) - toast, eggs & hash browns.

Lynn will be getting up & walking today. If you send me any emails, I will read them all to Lynn. Please don't send them to Lynn yet or her inbox will be jammed. My email is juditmy@hotmail.com & I will be here until about noon when Bonnie is coming up. Thanks!

Judi

Surgery is Over

Lynn thanks you for the flowers, Lois & Bud.
Joslyn arrived at 10am. Lynn took a shower & felt much better.
11am Lynn went into surgery. It took about an hour. Small incision on lower right quadrant.
12:40 Dr Waterhouse explained to Joslyn that the appendix had already ruptured, there was a large abcess & a lot of infection/pus. (Joslyn also found out that Maxine L just had an appendectomy last Saturday!)
1:30 Lynn is back in the room and sleeping. The nurse said to just let her rest.

All of the infection needs to clear up before Lynn can go home. Although the surgical nurse said, "2 or 3 days", I wonder if 4-5 would be more realistic.

I will stay here again tonight & then Bonnie will be here tomorrow to be with Lynn.

Judi

9:45am Wed

Dr Waterhouse just came in. The lab results must have been good because he said, "Let's do the surgery today." So, they will come & get Lynn about 12:30 or 1pm. They will knock her out. The surgery will take about an hour.

Judi

Progress Wed. 7:30am

Lynn was asleep when I got to the hospital this morning, but she woke up when I moved a chair. She had a good night's sleep & looks MUCH better to me. Glad the pain meds are working. We won't know anything about surgery date/time until the doctor gets here. The nurse just came in for a blood draw. Oh, happy day. Lynn gets to moisten her lips with the little sponge on a stick, above.
Judi

6PM Tuesday report

Lynn is in her hospital room here at St Johns. Room 130. Please, do NOT call her. She has been very tired. The pain medicine has made her drowsy and she keeps falling asleep and they keep waking her up. Asleep. Awake. She will be on this pain medicine (that means she will be drowsy) until her surgery. I will keep you posted. I have to sign off now, but will update tomorrow when I get back to the hospital.

Thank you for all the emails for Lynn. I keep telling her you have written & she gives me a little smile and then falls back asleep.
Judi

Progress Report Tuesday 5:20pm

Dr Rosenberg was just in to see Lynn. He asked her a zillion questions. Very thorough. Maybe the abdominal pain she had a month ago is unrelated. Lynn has an inflamed appendix. She is now on antibiotics for get the inflamation down and on vitamin K to counteract the coumadin (I only know how these words sounds - I'm guessing at the spelling) so her blood will clot. Then they will operate - by incision, not laproscopy. It could be Thursday or Friday before they operate. or... Dr. Waterhouse will see Lynn tomorrow and if he thinks it needs to be done sooner, it could be a Wednesday surgery. She will be hospitalized for probably 3 days after surgery.

That's all we know for now.

Judi

Tuesday 1:25 PM

This is a note from Judi:
Lynn has been having severe abdominal pain and early this morning she called Bonnie to come get her and take her to Pinedale where I met them and brought Lynn on up to Jackson. Bonnie was planning to come all the way up, but I had to come up for an appointment anyway, so I brought Lynn to the hospital & Bonnie might come tomorrow. I know Lynn thanks you and loves you very much Bonnie. Me too.

Lynn is now in the hands of the oncology staff & is lying down until her MRI at 2pm. The doctor has been called & when I came out to get my laptop, the nurses were finding Lynn some pain killer. I will blog again as soon as I know something.

BTW: Betty: when did you visit Lynn? That was when the abdominal pain started (nothing to do with you!). 4 weeks ago?

Lynn sends LOVE to all of you and asks for your prayers.

Judi