Surgery Complete

The doc came out and told me that the surgery is complete and everything went fine. Basically, it was a routine surgery with nothing unexpected.

Unlike 4 weeks ago when we were the only people in the waiting room, there are several surgeries going on today. I asked the recovery room nurse if I could join Daniel but she told me "not yet". There's one other patient in there that's quite sick and a couple others with issues. Oh well, that's not really a big deal as he's still basically out of it.

The doc said they'd keep him here a couple days just to make sure things worked out okay. That opens the possibility he could be out of here on Monday (instead of Tuesday). It also makes it really unlikely that he'll be here longer than Tuesday.

I just saw the recovery room nurse wave another person waiting. As he left the room they wheeled a patient toward the pre-op rooms, so it appears that the routine is a little different than last time. It sort of looks like they use the recovery room for immediate recovery then transfer them to the pre-op rooms where the family can join them. The last time, since Daniel was the only person in surgery, they didn't bother moving him and we joined him the recovery room and then ICU. He won't be going to ICU this time, just his regular room.