Lenny's Surgery

Lenny went in this afternoon for Deviated Septum surgery.  He has had issues being able to breathe out of his nose and also with his ears being able to pop when going over the mountains.  This is a pretty big deal since we live here in the Mountain State.  The doctors were running a little over an hour behind schedule.  They finally came and took him to surgery at 2:45.  He was in surgery for about an hour which is how long that the nurses said that it would take.  Dr. Merenda came over and spoke with me after the surgery.  He said that everything had went exactly as planned and that all of Lenny's breathing issues should be fixed once the stints and packing has been removed and everything healed.  He said that Lenny should be back over to recovery soon.  Well, soon turned into 2 hours.  I finally went to ask the nurses if he had been brought over at an hour and half, they went to check and he still wasn't over there.  I waited 15 minutes and asked if they could locate him.  They found him in the first recovery.  He was very sick and in a lot of pain.  They finally brought him over.  He was still extremely sick.  The nurse gave him some more nausea medication.  This helped some, but once he wasn't as nauseous he was in a lot more pain so then they had to give him some more pain medicine.  Finally at 7:30 they decided that they were going to admit him for the night, they had to find him a bed in observation.  They finally got him settled into his room at 9:45.  I left to head home to let Paisley and Ally out since they had been caged up since 10:30 in the morning.  I played with the dogs until 11:00 and then headed back to spend the nigh with Lenny at the hospital.  It was a rough night because the chair that they had for me to sleep in was so uncomfortable and Lenny kept waking up in pain.  We finally made it through the night.  His doctor was in surgery all day so the nurse came in and asked Lenny some questions to get him discharged. 

I got him all cuddled into his recliner and he has been there since we got home.  Hopefully his pain will begin to subside soon.   He has his follow-up visit on Wednesday to get his stints and packing removed.