[Believe51]

Arrived at 5:30 am and needed to stay overnight, the procedure was finished at 11:00 pm! It was the pain in his back that really made him have to keep stopping.

They found 4 more mets, all very small in size. Some minor complications but nothing really to alarming. One was when he had to tilt his head and put it on his chest. He could not breathe and the pressure on his back made tears roll out of his eyes. This only happened because he has very bad bone mets and the average person will not have this issue.

Then they had to give him a large dose of morphine, which had all of us laughing by doing so. Between being half deaf AND medicated we all had our hands full. The nurses all loved him and flocked around him all day. The updates were constant and so was Ed's visits. Whenever they had to do a different pose he had to get up, of course he would want to visit with me in the waiting room.

The best and most trying part of the entire day was when the told him that they had done much work in his head and he needed to stay overnight. He did not remember anything that well BEFORE the morphine and did not remember anything AFTER it too.

Funny now but I had my hands full:
Upon arrival in his room he firmly said "I am not staying, my diabetic cat needs his shots and I have things to do!!" I had left at 4 pm to do this for the cat but again he did not remember that. So he tried to escape out the back stairway. Being under the influence I guided him back to the room to try to reason. Nope! He snuck away down the stairs and I was worried about him falling. The nurses were right on this and ran, some called security. I, however, went outside to catch him if he escaped successfully. I was now locked out of the hospital! I am laughing now as I write but was scared out of my gourd!!

A kind nurse let the crying wife back into the hospital. Upon returning to his room I found....he was gone again. Determined little guy! He was more mad at me for, and I quote: "Thanks Marie, the elevator door opened and there was 6 security guards waiting. Thanks for getting me arrested!!" I thought that was so funny but I waited to laugh about this until later!

All went well. Great team, great day. All 10 mets were zapped. We will watch the swelling but the vacation is still on!

And by the way, the reason for his tiredness despite the Decadron was that he had a met located at the sleep center and did not get the REM sleep he needed. Thankfully we spotted all of these issues BEFORE he was symptomatic!!

Love to all and thanks for the support, well appreciated>>Marie