Rob's surgery is tomorrow

[cjsmith]

Tomorrow is a heck of a day.

8AM: I deliver Duchess to the vet
9:45AM: I deliver Rob to the surgery center; I wait there
10:45AM: Rob gets wheeled into the OR for foot surgery
1PM(ish): Rob is conscious enough to come home
After that: I put Jell-O on the table near him & get him anything he needs
Later: I go get ice for Rob's cold machine
5:30PM: I pick up Duchess & some prescription food from the vet

I'm going to be exhausted, and I'm not the one who has to have surgery. I wish I could somehow make this easier on him.

Comments

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

Ice for the cold machine! This I have experience with, with my mom after her foot surgery!

Get bottles of water, and stick them in the freezer TONIGHT ... Enough for two rotations. Put *those* in the ice machine, surrounded by water. Worked GREAT, and lasted WAY longer! (And for my mom, who was by herself a lot, she was able to put the bottles in a backpack and change it herself by going to/from the freezer - the water didn't need changing, just the bottles swapping out.)

(hugs) and good luck to you both!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks! Our biggest problem is that there's no room in the freezer. That's why we're looking at purchasing ice. Hey, how about sticking cold-packs in the cold machine? One door-shelf of our freezer is nearly all cold-packs. :)

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

That works just as well! Seriously - it's great - there's no dumping of water, etc. because you just cycle through the ice packs!

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

Oh - and make sure he's hooked up to that baby right away! It made ALL the difference for my mom! She had the OTHER foot done a couple years before, and was MISERABLE ... the ice machine and the good drugs made a HUGE difference for her this time - and she was in great shape! The cold machine was REALLY good!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's what Rob says the doctor said, too. (If you can parse that you're doing better than I am.) A patient of hers had one foot done with and one without, and that patient came back to the office saying "You have to MAKE EVERYONE use these machines!" I'm glad to hear it'll help him.

(I think I did really well just icing the heck out of my feet, but then I am surprisingly good at following doctors' orders for stuff like that. I honestly did have ice on them the entire time I was awake. I opted not to have the cold machine because with both feet out of commission at once, I was going to have enough trouble moving around.)