UGH! Waiting is the worst! I’m praying for you (and Richard!). Thanks for letting us know what happened today.

Sounds like they are being appropriately cautious. That must be reassuring for you. Glad there are other ways for pain control; what a relief for you.

Oh my, the ups and downs of surgery. Stay strong till you get more answers. Glad the painkiller question is handled though. You’re still on our Circle.

OK then. Not what was expected, but good info on the painkillers is encouraging. Waiting is never fun but sounds like you have a good team that really wants to take good care of you. Luckily you have knitting. I’ve borrowed By the Second Spring from the library. Thank you.

Awww, sorry you can’t have the “lite” version and instead will be booked in. They’ll need to Very Clearly Communicate with the hospital about which painkillers are allowed and disallowed so the hospital staff does not go with “the normal painkillers for this procedure”, but hopefully recovery will go smoothly in all the ways!

(I’d randomly note that if they have you on a saline drip IV overnight in the US, get them to check *when it will run out* in the evening before you go to sleep; they can adjust the flow or give you a new bag slightly early for less BWEEP BWEEP BWEEP chaos at 3am and faster healing because sleep aids recovery… but most people in a hospital are not thinking about “how to give the patient as much good sleep as possible” despite intellectually knowing people recover faster with sleep, and I don’t know why they ignore it as a factor most of the time!)