Boyfriend had surgery Wed.
He's now minus 1 lung lobe.
The surgery almost didn't happen
because of so much congestion but the anesthesiologist
talked the surgeon into proceeding. I'm so grateful he did.
The surgeon is young and probably not so used to seeing some of the stuff
the anesthesiologist has seen...............he even told me that at one point during surgery
when the good lung did not inflate he had a moment when he freaked and thought he
had maybe screwed up.
But in the end all went well.
They kept boyfriend in the recovery room until the next afternoon (I spent the night with him in recovery).
Now they have him in cardiac care.
Today they plan on removing his Foley catheter, epidural, and hopefully
the chest tubes.
I've had him up walking since the day after surgery and doing deep breathing and coughing exercises..
They do a chest xray each morning to check for pneumonia. So far so good!
He says he'll never smoke again and can't believe how much denial he was in all those years of smoking.
He's very emotional, and grateful to have a second chance.
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Ah, smoking, still trying to kill myself with that. Good luck to him.
As I recall, John Wayne only had one lung when he did True Grit.
I didn't know that about John Wayne!
He's doing good with the not smoking!
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