Sridevi and I were picked up by RR and taken to the UW hospitals, two blocks away. I checked into the hospital at 7:30 a.m. My parents and sister-in-law Ishita, Mana, Minnie, Sati and Sayoni met me there. We took some pictures and I quickly went into the pre-surgery prep area. There, the nurses did the routine triage (b.p., temp, weight etc), changed into the hospital gown, started an i.v line and waited. Rajesh's surgery had started at 7:30.
My surgery was scheduled to start at 10:30a.m. Among my visitors to the pre-surgery area were the anesthesia team, and the surgeons, Dr, Luis Fernandez and Dr. Stahler. Dr. Stahler looked at the right hip area and found the large scar from my earlier pseudotumor surgery and decided that the new kidney would go in on the left side. Later, Dr. Fernandez marked a smiley face on my left side where the incision would start.
About 9:30 a.m. I received my bolus dose of Factor (Advate, 3200 IU). My family friends outside visited me in the room and we chatted and took pictures and at 10 p.m. the nurse received a call from the surgery room to ask me to be wheeled into surgery.
My bed was moved through multiple hallways for about a minute before we entered the surgery room. There were 5 or 6 masked people in the room. I looked around and noted a sink and 2 or 3 long tables with surgical instruments along the walls of the room. I was transferred to the surgery table and my arms were spread out. Since my elbows would not be held straight they supported it below with rolls of towels. My knees were similarly supported with a pillow. They forced oxygen into my nostrils. Over my left shoulder behind me on the ceiling was a large TV screen where I saw Rajesh's surgery in progress. Cool. It looked like a few hand were working on him. Comfortably situated I went under in a flash.
I barely remember anything about the time immediately following the surgery, the recovery room. My first recollection is from my hospital room for the next 4 days where I remember someone, probably Deepika, our local host walking in with a bunch of balloons.
I remember having hiccups, or was it gas and some nausea and pain. I also heard voices around me saying the b.p. was low. Later, I heard that I was brought into this room around 5 but really got my bearings only around 8 p.m. I remember Rajesh had walked into my room with a walker and shaking hands with me.
Post surgery I ended up with a long curved incision on my left side held together by staples, a urinary catheter, JP drain, a stent in the ureter and Rajesh's kidney- my third kidney working hard inside me. The nurses were saying that bag attached to the catheter was collecting a lot of urine. This must mean that my new kidney was working. Future labs would verify this.
My surgery was scheduled to start at 10:30a.m. Among my visitors to the pre-surgery area were the anesthesia team, and the surgeons, Dr, Luis Fernandez and Dr. Stahler. Dr. Stahler looked at the right hip area and found the large scar from my earlier pseudotumor surgery and decided that the new kidney would go in on the left side. Later, Dr. Fernandez marked a smiley face on my left side where the incision would start.
About 9:30 a.m. I received my bolus dose of Factor (Advate, 3200 IU). My family friends outside visited me in the room and we chatted and took pictures and at 10 p.m. the nurse received a call from the surgery room to ask me to be wheeled into surgery.
My bed was moved through multiple hallways for about a minute before we entered the surgery room. There were 5 or 6 masked people in the room. I looked around and noted a sink and 2 or 3 long tables with surgical instruments along the walls of the room. I was transferred to the surgery table and my arms were spread out. Since my elbows would not be held straight they supported it below with rolls of towels. My knees were similarly supported with a pillow. They forced oxygen into my nostrils. Over my left shoulder behind me on the ceiling was a large TV screen where I saw Rajesh's surgery in progress. Cool. It looked like a few hand were working on him. Comfortably situated I went under in a flash.
I barely remember anything about the time immediately following the surgery, the recovery room. My first recollection is from my hospital room for the next 4 days where I remember someone, probably Deepika, our local host walking in with a bunch of balloons.
I remember having hiccups, or was it gas and some nausea and pain. I also heard voices around me saying the b.p. was low. Later, I heard that I was brought into this room around 5 but really got my bearings only around 8 p.m. I remember Rajesh had walked into my room with a walker and shaking hands with me.
Post surgery I ended up with a long curved incision on my left side held together by staples, a urinary catheter, JP drain, a stent in the ureter and Rajesh's kidney- my third kidney working hard inside me. The nurses were saying that bag attached to the catheter was collecting a lot of urine. This must mean that my new kidney was working. Future labs would verify this.
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