Tuesday came.

As much as I was dreading it, and anxiously awaiting it's arrival...Tuesday came. We arrived at the hospital bright and early for some testing, CT scan followed by a chest x-ray and some blood work. Dave drank the barium in what the nurse thought was record time! (He insisted that was the only way to do it, his words: "it's not like a nice cocktail that I am going to sip") after that we had a couple hours to kill (during which time we went to a pawn shop and scored Guitar Hero 3 for our PS3 for $10!) Then it was back to the hospital for surgery...a radical right orchiectomy. Dave made SURE they knew it was the right side, his right, I found that pretty humorus especially being that one was about 3x the size of the other...

We hung out in pre op for an hour or so, then before we knew it, the nurse came with the loopy drugs (for him not me....although Lord knows I could have used some at that point!) And he was taken back into surgery, after some phonecalls to family I plopped down in the waiting room with a diet coke, watching Everybody Loves Raymond on a giant LG Flat screen tv with the WORST cable I have ever seen, not that it mattered much at that point...I was mostly just staring at the clock anyways. But at 4:26PM (surgery was started about 5 till 4) Dr. D came breezing out the doors and told me everything went smoothly they were all done and he would need to see Dave and I next tuesday to go over the pathology results and decide on a gameplan. I had to waiti about 45 minutes until Dave was in "Phase 2" recovery, when I walked back he was sitting up, eating some cracker, smiling and ready to get the heck home! We were gone by about 5:45, and home by 6:30.


Recovery has been a little rougher than I expected, mostly with a great deal of fatigue and pain in his incision. Work for him has been difficult being that he is on his feet the whole time, and slowing him down has been no small task!

So here we are...another monday night, awaiting another tuesday, if it is possible I have a bit more fear about tomorrow than I did last week. Last tuesday was procedures and scans...tomorrow brings answers and reality and uncertainty.... sometimes I think that if ignorance is bliss than I would be happy to be a fool...