A hospital hour is really long

Still waiting for her slot in the OR.

They are giving our girl potassium. Her blood test must show that she is low on electrolytes.

The best question of the day, as we have been visited by roving bands of support doctors and nurses is, "When was the last time you ate or drank?" When she responds, "Wednesday" they do a double take. They obviously expect to hear something like "midnight" or "last night."

We've met surgical teams, internal medicine doctors and the best was the nice young lady with the portable scale. She weighed Mary and the scale readout showed a gain of 1.5 lbs since her last weight measurement on Monday here at the hospital. I suggested to the attendant that the scale was not level because there is no way Mary could have gained 1.5 lbs on a diet of saline solution, fentanyl, phenergan and other IV deliverables. She assured me she had 'zeroed' the scale and it was accurate. Yeah, right. I don't believe its important so I just let it go. She will lose some weight when they take the gall bladder out.

The lead internist and hospitalist for Mary's team is Dr Lisa Shieh.

More later--a hospital hour later,

Pat