Surgery information from last Friday evening.
Thursday, I meet with the doctor in Oahu at 0930. Straub Clinic and Hospital. Dr. K. Huong will make a go versus no-go decision on whether to do the surgery the next day, and will decide what's the best surgical procedure (more later). I believe that Dr. Okazaki has worked out most details that make this a procedural thing more than a real decision, but you never know. If the "go" is in play, then I follow with two pre-op meetings with nurses and then with anesthesiologist and some others. They claim I'm out by 2pm or so.
Friday is surgery day and I'm 2nd on the list, so that means a schedule of something like 930am. It's a two-hour procedure, depending on which procedure she selects. Dr. Huong typically uses a laproscopic surgery approach, but might do this a different way depending on the consultation.
For all you wiki fans... here's the link to that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laparoscopic_surgery
Normal recovery / release is 1-3 days with average of 2. Will I be average? Accelerated? That will be the big mystery.
Positive thought for the day: The spleen can weight up to 7 ounces... so I'll be losing almost 1/2 pound after this.
Okay... back to football. What? The Raiders won?
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