We went down to the coffee house at the lobby of the hospital to have some bagels and tea. Another thing I noticed about this hospital is that the food are really cheap and good! :P This is a picture of the paging device. It's something like those paging device you get from Olive Garden or Red Lobster when you are waiting for a table. The pager works anywhere on the hospital grounds. It's really cool that you don't have just wait in the waiting area while your love ones are undergoing surgery.
After about an hour, we decided to go back to the waiting room to check on Kevin's mom's status. There is a big LCD screen where you can check/track the progress of the patient using the "Patient Tracking Number". It's just like those arrival/departure screens in the airport. You can see where the patient is currently at, be it still in the waiting room or if the surgery is in progress or if they are already in the recovery room or back in the ward. Kevin's mom was still in the prep room so we just watched some TV and waited. There is also free WIFI in the waiting room. Too bad we didn't bring our laptops. The pager went off soon after and they brought us to a room to see Kevin's mom before she is wheeled into the surgery area. We were told that the surgery would last about an hour and recovery time is between 3-4 hours. They said we should go home to rest and come back after 4-5 hours.
We went back to the hospital after about 3 and a half hours, checked the screen and saw that Kevin's mom is already in the recovery room. The nurse said that she will be there probably for another hour but we can go chill out in her room and just wait for them to bring her up once she is fully recovered. They then gave us her room number. She has a single room, so that's pretty good. Kevin and I then went to the nearby mall to get her a huge balloon bouquet so that she can see it the moment is gets back from surgery! The sun balloon was so huge it was kinda tricky to get it in the car! Hahahaha!
When we got back, she was already in the room with a visitor already!! Soon, a few other friends (from her choir group and Red Hats ladies) and her cousin and cousin's husband also visited her. She was in very good spirits, even though she was hooked up to so many things. She had a pint of blood, IV (sorry mom, it's not Bbruan, it's from Baxter), oxygen, her morphine dispensing machine, some machine that monitors the amount of oxygen she is getting as well as a machine that moves her operated leg and massages her other leg. After she had her dinner and when the visitors trickled down, we went home and let her get some much needed rest. Will blog more about her second day in the hospital later on.
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