Day 1: Day of the Surgery Part 2

At the end of Part 1 of Day 1, we had been told that the surgery had gone well.

Shortly before 4pm we were walked over to West Tower to the PACU to see him.

Time for a little side story. During the COVID-19 pandemic, like many people, we were looking for things to do with the time that staying home was presenting us. I, again like many people, learned how to bake sourdough bread but I also decided to try and understand iMovie. iMovie, if you don't know, is a video editing software that comes installed on a Mac computer. Charlie saw me clicking around on it and wanted to know more. I didn't really get a chance to work on iMovie because that became Charlie's obsession hobby. After he had learned how to edit videos, he wanted content. So, he and I would make recipe videos in the kitchen and Charlie would edit them. Next up, Charlie wanted to put his videos on YouTube. Charlie loves his YouTube channel (he has 39 subscribers!) and refers to talking to "his audience".

Back to the West Tower. Having been under anesthesia for 7 hours with a tube down his throat, he was croaky and dazed but the first thing he said to me was;

"Can I tell my audience that my surgery is over?"

After a popsicle and some more paperwork, it was time for another move. This time up to the 10th floor and his room where we got settled in quite quickly.


So quickly, in fact, that it was not very long before Aly and Charlie wanted to go to sleep and they sent me home.

On my way, I reflected on the day. I hadn't really set any goals for the day but they would have been;

  • Avoid that risk we mentioned in Part 1 
  • Have the surgeon come out and tell us that he was pleased with how the surgery went 
  • Get Aly and Charlie settled in their room with no problems
This is where I have to resist the temptation to paraphrase Ice Cube.

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