So I am now back home in Cambridge for a while. I have had a rather interesting few days.
On Saturday I got a ride to the Civic Hospital in Ottawa and when I went to a desk there, they had no idea that I was supposed to be coming, even though I was told to be there by 10AM. Eventualy we got over to the Emergency Department where they did their thing, more X-Rays and some other work. Then I was told that it is a break of one bone and a torn ligament on the other side of my ankle. So I would definately need surgery to fix it properly. The next step was to get sent up to my room, after getting an IV put in and told that I get no food or drinks till I am done surgery. Eventually, after dinner was sever and the night staff came on, I was asked if I had eaten dinner. It turns out that I was supposed to get dinner since I had been removed from the list of people getting surgery that day. I hadn't been told this before though, so then the nurse went and got me a bag lunch type of dinner, sandwhich, apple, a couple of drinks, and ice cream.
On Sunday I was told that I was back on the list for Sunday so I would get no meals then either. As the day went by, I got to sit and read and nap while aaiting. Finally at 5:30ish, I was told that there were 2 people left on the list for Sunday and I was one of them. In fact other people had already been cancelled. About 1.5 hours later the nurse came back in to tell me that once again I had been cancelled for then, but that I would be first in the morning. And another brown paper bag dinner was eaten.
Finally on Monday, after being woken up at 6:30, and eventually getting picked up by the OR people at 8:10 or so, I was brough to the OR room where I had to ait for a bit as they finished up the previous operation in the room and cleaned up. Finally I was brough in and the surgeon and doctors did their thing, while I was helplessly asleep, and I woke up in the recovery room at 10:30. Eventually I was brough back to my room at 11:30, just in time for lunch, which I was allowed to eat. It was all jello and liquid type of food, but that was OK. Eventually I had a real hospital dinner of potatoes and meatloaf, and then was distrubed as they brough in a room mate who had had back surgery that day. That was the first room mate I'd had so far in the week end, so it was all right.
After a night of sleep disrupted by nurses repeatedly turning the room mate over, I was picked up by my aunt to await tehe arrival of my parents. So I stayed at my aunt's place for a couple hours and after my parents arrived and talked for a bit, we had dinner and then left. 6 hours later, I arrived home im Cambridge and pretty quickly went to bed.
And now you know all about it. Or at least some of the story. I think I will be in Cambridge for a week or 2 and then will return to Deep River to go back to work. We'll see how that works out though. My parent mentioned something about getting a second car for me to use, and my brother also depending on where we end up working/needing travel capabilties, so that is a possibility. Otherwise we'll see.
