The morning went well. Started at 8AM and finished around 12 Noon! Here is what happened:
8 AM - Ultrasound on my left arm to see if the doctors could use a vein from my left arm for one of the by-passes. The young lady, Melissa, is married to one of my younger son's friends from Hempfield. Josh & her brother-in- law Mike Porreca were friends. Ten years ago, Josh was throwing TD's to Mike on the football field. Melissa is married to one of Mike's twin brothers. Melissa did a great job and the entire procedure took 30-45 minutes.
9:30 AM - Next to nurse, Diane. Diane's job is to take care of all the testing & blood work! First, blood work! Of course, I warned her I get light headed around needles! First needle was in my right hand around my wrist & lucky I was laying down, because I did get lighted headed! Here is a great page for needle phobia & I have never researched this - well let the research begin!
Needle Phobia
I did not realize that 10% of the population has this! You would think that doctors & hospitals would do a better job helping & informing patients! Well I'm working on it & the webite had some great ideas!
After the first blood sample was drawn, I had an EKG, another blood sample from my elbow area(this went better!), a urine sample, covered my medical history, and signed a bunch of papers for the procedure!
Last, I was given a prescription for Bactroban, which is a nasal medicine that I will discuss later.
Diane covered the Monday schedule, need to be there by 5:15 AM and surgery starts at 8AM!
Well, that was my Friday! 4 hours of poking, signing, and all the testing before surgery!
Jim,
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to share with Jennifer your info on needle phobia. She also doesn't shares your phobia.