Mom is out of surgery, and I got to speak with the surgeon. He says that it went well, though she lost more blood than expected. ("She oozed.") She's in the recovery room and waking up, and I should see her in about a half hour.

Mom's reverse shoulder replacement surgery has been rescheduled for today, since a test yesterday showed that her potassium levels were back up to normal. I guess the bananas, baked potato, and the spinach helped, along with supplement pills ( Read more... )

Well, after a couple hours of waiting, they found out that her potassium level was really low and it was going to be dangerous to have anesthesia, so they decided to cancel. The alternative was to go on a 4+ hour IV drip of potassium that would be extremely painful, then have an extremely tired surgeon work on her in the afternoon ( Read more... )

I'm really not looking forward to tomorrow. My mother is having surgery on her shoulder. Well, technically she's getting a NEW shoulder since she's having a "reverse shoulder replacement". Apparently the muscles in front have basically disintegrated and she needs to switch the ball and socket to have any range of motion. She's been in a ton of pain ( Read more... )