[Jackie07]

Believe it or not, I'd had my appendix out Friday already!

The appointment with Dr. Thomas on Wednesday went well (Partly because the GI Director had told us that he's a fine doctor) until at the end when he said that he's going on vacation for 3 weeks as well!

I couldn't hide my disappointment and just 'lashed out' (more like 'begged' . Then he said he could try to do it Friday when he'd already had two surgeries scheduled that morning. We then went to the admission counter to complete the paper work and paid $100.00 copay for staying two days after outpatient surgery. If I am admitted to the hospital after 48 hours, the lady explained, it will be $450.

Thursday we received a call stating that the report time was changed from 9:30 to 8:00 am. I was so tired trying to clean up the house/finish the laundry that I went to bed right after taking the Exemestane at 7:30. Woke up around 2 am and took shower after watching a little bit TV. Been drinking Gaterade since noon the previous day after taking 4 bisacadyl to clean up the bowel. I was tired and hungry and ready to 'go'!

Turned out the earlier report time was to take care of business at the Admission counter. The lady asked me for a driver's license! (In the hospital where I'd had five prior surgeries!) And she did not like the long expired license I presented her ... (The neuropsychologist who'd done extensive testing on me in 2008~2009 advised me not to drive after I'd flunked the ‘driving test’ administered by her assistant. The testing was arranged after she'd learned I'd had two minor car accidents the previous year.）

Anyhow, I lied down on the cold surgical bed and was very glad the lady there was able to start my IV with just one poke (on the all bruised and beat-up left arm). The surgery started around 12, according to hubby, and he met with the surgeon at the corridor outside OR after the surgeon called him on his cell phone around 2. Everything went well, according to the doctor. There was a lot of puss. Visually he did not see any sign of cancer. And the lab report was also benign. But we will have to wait five days for the final determination...

We were exhausted yet excited driving back to FIL's house. And there was a hot meal on the talbe! SIL had instructed her youngest daughter who lives nearby to cook something for us ...

ps. The surgeon has returned from his one week vacation (glad it's not '3' weeks) and reviewed my pathology report quickly ('never put off tomorrow what you can do today'! . So I got the surprise call from his nurse this afternoon (instead of the projected 'tomorrow')： All's clear! No cancer found in the the specimen of the appendix. Nor was the spots in the liver (just had to get another confirmation as 'liver cancer' was noted on 'my chart', the electronic patient information site.). But be sure to do the 5-year colonoscopy next year...