VTC1028
08-04-2005, 01:13 PM
Hi everyone. Thanks so much for the wonderful advice.
We have talked to the surgeon and Tucker will be having his surgery 8/16, 17 or 18th. The surgeon wants to see him on 8/15, and will set the date after that but it will be sometime that week--unless he is not over his sinusitis. He's been on IV antiobiotics for 3 days now. He is going to stay in the hospital at least over the weekend and then possibly come home early next week and then go back to a different hospital for the surgery. I hate hospital politics. The surgeon that we want to use gave up his privileges at the Children's Hospital in our area because of internal politics, now we have to go to a different hosptial to have the surgery performed. One would think that the children's hospital would do whatever this surgeon wants as he is the best and most sought after in our area. I hear through the grapevine that the hospital tried to get him back, but he was so annoyed with them at that point he said forget it. It just makes me nervous, because the children's hospital knows Tucker so well, and now he has to go somewhere totally new. But his twin, Kendall, had hernia surgery at this other hospital (with the same surgeon) and it was fine, just different because we don't know it as well.
Now that we have made the decision to have the surgery, I'm anxious to get it done but the surgeon is going out of town tomorrow for a week. I guess we've been patient for the 3 months since his diagnosis, so one more week isn't going to be so bad. Plus it gives him another week to gain some more weight and get stronger. He's up to a whopping 6 lbs 8 onces now.
We have talked to the surgeon and Tucker will be having his surgery 8/16, 17 or 18th. The surgeon wants to see him on 8/15, and will set the date after that but it will be sometime that week--unless he is not over his sinusitis. He's been on IV antiobiotics for 3 days now. He is going to stay in the hospital at least over the weekend and then possibly come home early next week and then go back to a different hospital for the surgery. I hate hospital politics. The surgeon that we want to use gave up his privileges at the Children's Hospital in our area because of internal politics, now we have to go to a different hosptial to have the surgery performed. One would think that the children's hospital would do whatever this surgeon wants as he is the best and most sought after in our area. I hear through the grapevine that the hospital tried to get him back, but he was so annoyed with them at that point he said forget it. It just makes me nervous, because the children's hospital knows Tucker so well, and now he has to go somewhere totally new. But his twin, Kendall, had hernia surgery at this other hospital (with the same surgeon) and it was fine, just different because we don't know it as well.
Now that we have made the decision to have the surgery, I'm anxious to get it done but the surgeon is going out of town tomorrow for a week. I guess we've been patient for the 3 months since his diagnosis, so one more week isn't going to be so bad. Plus it gives him another week to gain some more weight and get stronger. He's up to a whopping 6 lbs 8 onces now.