we arrived at the emergency room at 9pm (sunday night). M was in pain, it took a long time for them to schedule her in. i wonder at times if you they wait until you get that totally vacant look just waiting, staring into space, before they take care of you. it was pretty busy and she wasn't bleeding right, but on the floor clearly in pain and vomiting, yikes. well --it wasn't pretty. i don't blame them, jez, what a hard job. anyway, we got bumped up on the list -still it took hours to finally get a bed.
i stayed with M until about till 7am when finally things seemed to calm down -the right meds were kicking in, tests were being done, things starting to happen, left her in good hands.
ok -off to shower, then my daily conference call, head all the way to the airport to clear a shipment in from india, unpack and bundle up TEN tabla's headed to the saint louis symphony orchestra (and carnegie hall week later) --those had to go out TODAY… dropped them off at fedex on my way to the office. fixed a router, jumped started a car, worked on no less than 6 bugs (2 real application defects -eh, usually only get about 2 a day), yikes.
then back to the hospital later that night. i was not excited by the prospect of any of this, but it was interesting to see how the emergency room, and hospital functioned. i'm also somewhat humoured by the fact i'm working on a health care project right now.
hmph - there are moments i think pulling all nighters in high school helped me prepare for days like this. of course this was a different kind of stress --there was a moment i was told she was in "ICU" just after the surgery, which kinda made me freak out. but i think that's a general term for folks getting post-op care. good news is everything went well.