this Justin

Yeah, sooooo, Justin had a good day! When I got to the hospital this morning around 7:30, I could already tell Justin was feeling much better. The day shift nurse was there and he was only asking for Tylenol as pain meds. His eyes were bright, his skin was pink and rosy, and his spirit…

A less eventful night, a less eventful day. Last night went pretty well. At one point we went nearly five hours without interruption … aside from the IV fluids running out. After 30 minutes of silencing the beeping and when no one came (yes, we called the nurses twice), I just turned it off. Don’t…

Let’s see, such a busy day for Justin. Last night was rough, holy cow. Justin was really chatty till about 10:30 PM when he got his first dose of muscle relaxers. With this surgery, much of the discomfort and pain is from the neck and shoulder muscles being irritated by surgery and adjusting to the…

The surgeon called at almost exactly 6:00 PM as the team was finishing up the last stretch of stitches. Although the procedure was tougher than expected, he still feels it went well and that Justin will recover nicely. (I do have a few more details, but I’ll wait to share until Justin is awake enough…

Justin was taken down to pre-op around 9:00 this morning. We met with the anesthesiologist, IR doc, surgeon, surgical nurse … the janitor may have stopped by, too. For the first time, I think Justin was calmer than me. He was starting to have a ramp up in pain this morning which provided more incentive…

Justin has been struggling the past three weeks with severe neck pain. It came and went, and came again. After the first instance, he visited an urgent care and was prescribed muscle relaxers, pain meds, and physical therapy. Although physical therapy was addressing symptoms, he was still experiencing acute episodes of untreatable pain. Friday morning,…

Justin has been home-home for a couple of days now, so I thought it time for a quick update. Seems getting back into the swing of things has been a little difficult. Justin has had a couple of days with little to no appetite and getting him to drink anything is a chore. Although everything…

Justin was discharged yesterday afternoon. Yay! But the transition from hospital life has been rough. Within a couple of hours of leaving he was running a fever, vomiting, and feeling miserable. And like I said in the previous post, Justin really struggles to maintain his hydration and nutrition when not under the watchful eye of…

I arrived this morning to cranky Justin. So after yesterday morning, when the gestapo made me stand in the cold waiting for exactly 8:00 to enter the hospital (seriously to the second), I didn’t arrive today until about 8:15. When I walked in the door to Justin’s room, he had been watching the clock awaiting…

Justin had another IR (Interventional Radiology) procedure today for the clotting in his left leg and Inferior Vena Cava. I was told it would take roughly 2 hours between the actual procedure and recovery, however, the procedure itself was nearly 3 hours and recovery … an hour and a half. I heard from the nurse…