By Pete, in the waiting room.
Just saw Terri in the recovery area. She is still quite groggy. Said she felt like... Well. You can guess. The nurse in the recovery area said she will need to come out of it a bit more and have a bit less pain before they can move her to a room. So, more waiting. A couple more hours, maybe.
Dr. Carpenter came by earlier and said that he did NOT have to use skin/muscle from her back! This is good news, as it will speed her recovery and cause less problems later. If you have ever had muscle pain in your back (and who hasn't?), imagine tearing out a chunk...
The scorecard above is the status of each OR. Green is in progress, red is finished, blue is in recovery zone... I guess if size matters, Terri's bar was the longest all day! Her bar is the third of the blues together in the middle... OR 16. Note that it is actually the 15th line... Silly superstitions... No OR 13! Last night, we were on the 14th floor of the hotel (which is of course really the 13th floor). So take that, universe! Lucky 13 it is.
Speaking of spooky stuff - one notices these things with constant TV playing... In one of the waiting room TVs, there is a darkened area down the middle of the screen that looks like a breast in profile. A Ghost of Breastmas Past?
Keeping up with Terri's humor----good job, Pete.....
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