Monday, August 25, 2008

Jason is checked into TWHH

We had a blast in Las Vegas this weekend! It was wonderful to have such a great vacation with friends. Jason and I really enjoyed ourselves and helped keep our minds off his surgery.

Jason is officially checked into The Wisconsin Heart Hospital. He had a couple tests at Noon today (ultrasound, x-rays, blood tests, etc.). They are doing a transfusion of the Von Willabrands factor today (not to be confused with the blood transfusion I told some of you about, so there is our clarification). They will get him up tomorrow morning about 4:30 a.m. or 5:30 a.m. for testing, full body shave, etc. and surgery will begin at 7:00 a.m. So I will be at the hospital tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. and I can be with him until he goes into surgery at 7:00 a.m.

Jason can have visitors all day today (there actually are no visiting hours 24 - 7 they say) and he is probably just going to sit around most of the day today, so visitors are welcome to pop in today. The only time he WILL NOT be in his room is during the actual surgery and for about 1 hour afterwards, otherwise his room is his ICU, recovery, etc. The nurses are great!

I will (and Scott) continue to give updates through the blog, but I am warning you that my writing skills are not as good as Jason's.

Love,
Tricia

P.S. Thank you for all your love, support and prayers.

3 comments:

Troy said...

I just got off of the phone with the Smithman and his spitits are up. He was, however, complaining about not being able to watch the Brewers tonight because they have the night off. I'll have to TIVO tomorrow's game for him so he can watch it when he gets home.

T-Bone

germie said...
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germie said...

Good luck today Smithers! Scott will be providing me updates as they happen while I am at work. I will be stopping over there as soon as I can.

I love you guys!

Angie