Elric doing well, in his hospital room
Elric is doing well and is in his hospital room -- I'm afraid I wasn't able to post earlier because, indeed, of wifi problems and hauling all his stuff plus my laptop up to the room after being upright and in a not-very-back-comfortable chair for hours while waiting (looking back on it, going off the painkillers this week may not have been such a great idea -- I'm taking one tonight because I'm in a world of pain now).
The doctor says his surgery went smoothly and they didn't see any signs of cancerous progression outside the surgical area, though we won't know for certain of course until we get back the path results on what they removed (prostate, lymph nodes), which won't be for another two weeks -- then we'll know if they got clean edges and got all of it. We're lighting candles that this is so.
He's been up a bit and moving for a short walk, though he's still nauseated and not feeling his best, clearly. I left him about 7pm ET and came home for the night. Tomorrow we have a friend heading down from up north to help out* and stay until the next day, so I'll have someone helping bring him home from the hospital.
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* My car decided to do something truly awful on the way to the hospital -- a broken ball joint, perhaps, though it may be something worse. The car isn't safe to drive, period. Either way, I'll have to limp it over to our mechanic tomorrow morning, slowly and on back roads, and have our friend follow me and bring me back home. Then we can use Elric's car to pick him up tomorrow afternoon.
This could not have happened at a worse time: we haven't gotten a check from any clients in a LONG time, the mortgage is due ($2000), our monthly bills are due (I don't even want to know how much -- it's a lot), the hospital bill is completely out of pocket (couple of thousand dollars) against our insurance and they (get this) want us to settle up tomorrow before they let us leave the hospital, and now my car. My bank account = a couple of hundred dollars. And that's it, folks. Aaaeeeiiieeeee.
At least the hospital will let us, if we beg really hard, pay on a monthly basis. But it still adds up to a couple of thousand dollars we don't have. But cancer surgery -- it wasn't an option not to do it.
::screams at the universe::
The doctor says his surgery went smoothly and they didn't see any signs of cancerous progression outside the surgical area, though we won't know for certain of course until we get back the path results on what they removed (prostate, lymph nodes), which won't be for another two weeks -- then we'll know if they got clean edges and got all of it. We're lighting candles that this is so.
He's been up a bit and moving for a short walk, though he's still nauseated and not feeling his best, clearly. I left him about 7pm ET and came home for the night. Tomorrow we have a friend heading down from up north to help out* and stay until the next day, so I'll have someone helping bring him home from the hospital.
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* My car decided to do something truly awful on the way to the hospital -- a broken ball joint, perhaps, though it may be something worse. The car isn't safe to drive, period. Either way, I'll have to limp it over to our mechanic tomorrow morning, slowly and on back roads, and have our friend follow me and bring me back home. Then we can use Elric's car to pick him up tomorrow afternoon.
This could not have happened at a worse time: we haven't gotten a check from any clients in a LONG time, the mortgage is due ($2000), our monthly bills are due (I don't even want to know how much -- it's a lot), the hospital bill is completely out of pocket (couple of thousand dollars) against our insurance and they (get this) want us to settle up tomorrow before they let us leave the hospital, and now my car. My bank account = a couple of hundred dollars. And that's it, folks. Aaaeeeiiieeeee.
At least the hospital will let us, if we beg really hard, pay on a monthly basis. But it still adds up to a couple of thousand dollars we don't have. But cancer surgery -- it wasn't an option not to do it.
::screams at the universe::